The US President accuses the University of Anti -Semitism for allowing student movements against Israel bombing in the Gaza Strip; Trump also wants the end of diversity programs
The government of United States It announced on Tuesday (13) new cuts in Harvard subsidies, a day after the university direction offered to dialogue. The president Donald Trump accusation Harvard and other American universities of anti -Semitism, because they allowed their student movements against Israel’s bombing in the Gaza Strip. He also wants the end of diversity programs.
Harvard took the US government to the courts, alleging illegal attempt to control its management. But the university president, Alan Garber, sent a letter to the secretary of education, Linda McMahon, seeking a dialogue on “the common base” of the fight against anti -Semitism and the defense of “freedom of thought and expression.”
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Garber states in the letter that he has taken steps to ensure that Israeli employees and students do not feel excluded, and that federal government actions threaten academic freedom. Hours later, the Department of Health and Human Services announced the elimination of another US $ 450 million (R $ 2.5 billion) in Harvard subsidies, in addition to US $ 2.2 billion (R $ 12 billion) released last week, claiming “a problem” of university discrimination.
“Harvard is neither Republican nor Democrat, nor the armed arm of any party or political movement, and will never be,” Garber says in the letter. The university board did not comment on the new subsidies.
*With information from AFP
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