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Donald Trump’s government has decided that Harvard University is “violent violation” of the Civil Rights Act and that all federal financing “immediately” has to reform or lose.
In a letter to Ivy League University, which was seen by the Financial Times, the Health Ministry’s Civil Rights said that Harvard had violated the ban on discrimination against the civil rights law on the basis of breed, color and national origin.
The decision marks a new escalation between the elite university and the government of Donald Trump, despite the president’s comments even in the early this month, which were proposed An agreement could be tight.
Harvard has started complaints that question the steps of the administration against them, including the efforts to hire federal financing and to prevent the university from registering international students.
The letter sent on Monday puts the pressure on the US university institutions, including the University of Virginia, its President James Ryan resigned Last week after he was attacked by the administration.
The administration claimed that Harvard was “intentionally indifferent in some cases, and in others there was a deliberate participant in anti -Semitic nuisance of Jewish students, faculties and employees”.
It added: “Harvard’s commitment to racist hierarchies – where individuals are sorted and assessed in a suppressed group identity and not according to individual merits after their membership – has enabled anti -Semitism to filter on Harvard’s campus and offer a once great institution for humiliation, offered remedial mathematics, and sampling Jewish students, to hide their identities and announcements.
Many academics and civil rights groups, including some Jewish organizations, have criticized the Trump government’s attacks on US universities as a threat to freedom of expression and academic freedom.
The US university director recently signed a statement They say they have to “oppose the government’s inappropriate penetration into the academy”.
Alan Garber, Harvard’s President, in April public reports made It had commissioned an anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim bias that emphasized concerns and tax recommendations for reforms.
At the time, he said that the university doubled its efforts and that “Harvard cannot withstand the bigotry and not.
Harvard did not immediately respond to an inquiry to comment on the latest action by the White House.
