The lawsuit argues there is little connection between the Trump administration's stated goal—compelling universities to crack down on campus anti-Semitism—and the means it is using to achieve that end.
'If Harvard, or any institution for that matter, does not wish to comply with this basic legal obligation, the proper avenue for achieving this is simple: do not take federal financial assistance,' the lawmakers wrote.
"For the government to retreat from these partnerships now risks not only the health and well-being of millions of individuals but also the economic security and vitality of our nation," Harvard stated.
According to the US House Committee on Education and the Workforce, Harvard has repeatedly misrepresented its handling of the explosion of hate and rule-breaking.
Shabbos Kestenbaum says those responsible for the antisemitic climate are 'children, and Harvard should treat them as the children that they are - but they just don't.'
Amidst cheers and chants of "Free Palestine," hundreds of Harvard University graduates and faculty members staged a walkout during the commencement ceremony.
Major Ivy League philanthropists are urging the schools theyt support, such as Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, to address the issue of campus groups supporting Hamas, which they have been ignoring.
“The Wexner Foundation is formally ending its financial and programmatic relationships with Harvard and the Harvard Kennedy School,” the group said in a letter to the university’s board of overseers. “We make this decision with an unwavering commitment to our Israel alumni, to Israel’s civil service, and to the State of Israel.”
"Harvard supports, upholds, and invests in Israeli apartheid, and the oppression of Palestinians,” undergraduate senior shouts at dean during convocation ceremony.
Linda Sarsour has supported Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and once said Israel 'was built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everybody else.'
'In 30 years as head of Human Rights Watch, [Kenneth] Roth has consistently singled out Israel uniquely for demonization and delegitimization, using numerous false and distorted claims.'
'The Crimson editors should check their own blind spots in this matter and ask why they deem it necessary to expressly single out the state of Israel.'
'We stand by the State of Israel in its right to self-defense and by the right of the Jewish people to self-determination,' said a letter from faculty and other affiliates of Harvard University.
There's 'an overwhelming amount of publicly available evidence” demonstrating that Erekat had both incited terrorism and used his public position to endorse it.'
Palestinian official Saeb Erekat supports terrorism and with zero proof accused Israel of killing Yasser Arafat. Tell Harvard to rescind its offer to hire him as a 'diplomacy and statecraft' fellow.
In a world full of villains, Harvard University graduates must become the movie heroes of real life, filmmaker Steven Spielberg told the 2016 class during a commencement address Thursday.
The dean of Harvard Law School issued a strong condemnation of a recent incident in which a student called visiting Israeli member of parliament Tzipi Livni "smelly" - an age-old anti-Semitic canard.