Trump administration has said that it is freezing more than two billion dollars in federal funds for Harvard University, hours after the elite college rejected a list of demands from the White House.
Recall that the White House sent a list of demands to Harvard last week which it said were designed to fight antisemitism on campus. The letter included 10 categories for proposed changes, including: reporting students to the federal government who are “hostile” to American values, ensuring each academic department is “viewpoint diverse”, hiring an external government-approved party to audit programs and departments “that fuel antisemitic harassment” and checking faculty staff for plagiarism amongst others.
President Trump has accused leading universities of failing to protect Jewish students when college campuses around the country were roiled by protests against the war in Gaza and US support for Israel last year.