Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Monday that the government's legitimacy hinges on achieving a decisive military victory over Hamas in Gaza.​

“If we don’t win—this government has no right to exist,” Smotrich declared during an interview on Channel 14’s "The Patriots." He emphasized the necessity of a comprehensive military campaign: “We must return to fighting in a completely different way: to defeat, to destroy Hamas, to conquer the Gaza Strip, impose military rule, take territory and send a clear message—internally and externally—that those who mess with us will be erased.”​

Smotrich also addressed the controversy surrounding his recent comments about the hostages held in Gaza. In a separate interview with Radio Galey Israel, he had stated, “We have to say the truth: Returning the hostages is not the most important thing.” He later clarified that while the hostages' return is a “very, very, very important” goal, it should not overshadow the primary objective of defeating Hamas.​

Smotrich on Monday emphasized his close working relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, stating that he continues to support the government's direction provided it fulfills its mission of achieving a decisive victory over Hamas.

The Security Cabinet is scheduled to convene on Tuesday evening, where a decision is expected on whether to escalate military operations in Gaza, following a prolonged impasse in hostage negotiations.

This week, Israel revoked the entry visas of 27 French lawmakers and local officials. While the delegation, organized by the French consulate in Jerusalem, claimed its visit was intended to promote international cooperation and peace, Israeli authorities accused the group of planning activities hostile to the state.

The diplomatic kerfuffle follows closely on the heels of another provocation: French President Emmanuel Macron's announcement that he and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will co-host a June conference focused on establishing a Palestinian state—a move that drew sharp criticism from Jerusalem.

“In the coming months, together we will multiply and combine our diplomatic initiatives to bring everyone along this path,” said Macron during a visit to Saudi Arabia.

“We want to involve several other partners and allies, both European and non-European, who are ready to move in this direction but who are waiting for France,” he added.

David Weinberg, managing senior fellow at the Jerusalem-based Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy, told JNS Macron is “grandstanding" to "defy and constrain" the Jewish state.

"After all, the insistence on Palestinian statehood—after 30 years of Oslo process failures and the Oct. 7 attacks—flies in the face of logic, justice, history, and basic security realities,” said Weinberg, referring to the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023 invasion of southern Israel. “The Palestinian national movement, Fatah and Hamas wings alike, largely have shown themselves to be committed to Israel’s debilitation and destruction, not to a peaceful two-state solution.”

Macron’s inability or unwillingness to read the room and understand that his obsession with a two-state solution is no longer a viable solution matters little, said Weinberg. He aims to follow in the footsteps of Ireland, Spain, Norway and Slovenia, all of which recognized a “State of Palestine,” disregarding the fact that Palestine does not exist.

Macron’s notion that a Palestinian state will bring peace in the region is countered by a recent survey conducted by the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, which found that 64% of the Israeli public oppose the establishment of a Palestinian state, even as part of a normalization process with Saudi Arabia.

According to Weinberg, European leaders who unilaterally recognize Palestinian statehood "pretend to be advancing peace when in fact they are knowingly weakening Israel.” 

Instead, Weinberg suggested, “What the supposedly pro-peace international community ought to be doing is backing Israel’s legitimate war goals until their complete execution and demanding vast reform from Palestinian leaders.”

Without peace education and deradicalization programs for the Palestinians, Weinberg warned that any diplomacy that demands two states “will fail, sinking into the quicksand of Palestinian rejectionism and annihilationism.”

Weinberg also told JNS he fears “a new diplomatic discourse" developing in New York, Paris and elsewhere that views Israel as a global problem because it has grown "too strong, too ‘hegemonic’ in its ambitions, too ‘aggressive’ in its military actions, too ‘dominant’ in resetting the regional strategic situation and too successful in defending itself.”

The prevailing sentiment—echoed by Macron’s remark that Israel “has the right to defend itself, but within proportion”—is that Israel must be “reckoned with” by the West, he added. In practice, this means restraining, constraining, hemming in and ultimately humbling the Jewish state. Put simply, it suggests that Israel should not be allowed to win too decisively.

According to Weinberg, “This is an attempt to delegitimize Israel’s re-asserted defense doctrine of preventively and preemptively downgrading enemy capabilities and threats.”

Israel could respond to this French initiative in several ways, he told JNS.

For instance, Jerusalem could restrict the operations of French diplomats and charities in Judea and Samaria, and cut France out of many regional forums and diplomatic processes.

Such measures, while severe, reflect broader geopolitical tensions, particularly as European nations like France seek to use the Palestinian issue once again to reassert their influence amid shifting global dynamics.

According to Emmanuel Navon, a senior fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, the political situation in the United States is playing a role in shaping Europe's attitudes.

Europe, he said, feels "marginalized and threatened" by the unorthodox foreign policies of U.S. President Donald Trump. 

“In that context, Macron is pulling the classic French card by trying to convince Europe and the Third World that France can offer a reliable alternative to the United States,”  said Navon.

Navon explained that Macron is trying to mirror de Gaulle’s policy in the 1960s, when the founder of the Fifth Republic criticized the Vietnam war and sought to emancipate Europe from American hegemony. 

“There was something delusional about de Gaulle’s policy, but at least he enjoyed personal prestige, and France at the time was the centerpiece of Europe,” he added.

In contrast, Navon continued, “Macron’s France is not de Gaulle’s. It does not have the prestige and respectability it enjoyed 60 years ago.”

“Macron leads a minority government in a country whose finances are overstretched,” he said. “By calling for a ‘two-state solution’ before Israel’s victory over the Iranian axis, Macron is trying to undermine Trump’s plan for Gaza. Except that, unlike the United States, France does not have significant economic leverage over Egypt and Jordan, nor can it offer Saudi Arabia the security guarantees it demands before normalizing relations with Israel.” 

Macron's "posturing" thus "will not boost France’s declining influence, nor is it nearly good enough for France’s Muslim minority,” he said.  

Navon told JNS it is “unlikely” that other European countries would follow suit since most Europeans “do not share the French urge to poke America in the eye."

In fact, "East European governments generally support Israel and they do not trust Macron,” he added.

Navon believes Israel could mitigate the impact by hitting the French “where it hurts them the most, by denying them the influence they crave in the Middle East.”

Navon suggested Israel boycott “their so-called ‘summit’ with Saudi Arabia in June, and convince friendly European governments not to attend.”

He also suggested Israel should work on “nurturing our relations with governments in Eastern Europe that can (and do) veto France’s foreign policy initiatives at the European Council, and making sure that the Trump administration excludes France from the reconstruction of Gaza and from the normalization process between Israel and Saudi Arabia.”

France, he concluded, "must be made to understand that its arrogance comes at a price and that Israel is now a major power that can exact such a price.”

Qatari and Egyptian mediators have presented a new ceasefire framework to Hamas, including a multi-year truce, the release of all Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian security prisoners and a full Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, according to a report on Monday.

The plan, reported by the BBC, which cited a senior Palestinian source familiar with the negotiations, is said to include a truce lasting five to seven years and the establishment of a new governing authority in Gaza, potentially replacing Hamas. The terrorist organization, which has controlled the coastal enclave since its violent takeover in 2007, has signaled willingness to transfer authority to another Palestinian body approved on a “national and regional level,” according to the BBC.

No Israeli confirmation of the proposal has been issued as of time of publication.

A senior Hamas delegation is expected in Cairo to discuss the initiative, just days after the terror group rejected an Israeli offer involving a six-week ceasefire in exchange for disarmament and the return of hostages. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reiterated that the war will not end until Hamas is dismantled and all hostages are freed.

Israel launched its military campaign against Hamas following the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre, in which Hamas-led terrorists murdered some 1,200 people—mostly civilians—and abducted 251 individuals into Gaza. The Israeli government has maintained that it will not accept a ceasefire that allows Hamas to remain in power or rearm.

As of Tuesday, the Prime Minister’s Office has not commented publicly on the latest mediation efforts.

A report that the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany published today about aging Holocaust survivors suggests “sobering insights into the future of this incredible community,” per the nearly 75-year-old nonprofit, which estimates that it will distribute about $530 million in compensation this year to Holocaust survivors worldwide, and $960 million for welfare needs of survivors.

Some 1,400 (.6%) of the estimated 220,800 survivors in 90 countries today are centenarians, and half of the survivors live in Israel, according to the Claims Conference. The median age of survivors is 87, and 61% are women, per the nonprofit. 

The Claims Conference’s new report, titled Vanishing Witnesses: An Urgent Analysis of the Declining Population of Holocaust Survivors, projects that just half of Holocaust survivors worldwide will remain in six years, with just 30%, or about 66,250, remaining in 2035. By 2040, just 22,080 survivors will remain, according to the Claims Conference.

Mortality rates differ, per the nonprofit, with 39% of U.S. survivors (from 34,600 to 21,100) and 54% of survivors in former Soviet countries (from 25,500 to 11,800) expected to be lost by 2030. Israel, which has the most survivors (110,100, as of last October), is projected to lose 43% by 2030, dropping to 62,900.

“This report provides clear urgency to our Holocaust education efforts,” stated Gideon Taylor, president of the Claims Conference. “Now is the time to hear first-hand testimonies from survivors, invite them to speak in our classrooms, places of worship and institutions. It is critical, not only for our youth but for people of all generations to hear and learn directly from Holocaust survivors.”

“This report is a stark reminder that our time is almost up, our survivors are leaving us, and this is the moment to hear their voices,” Taylor said.

Greg Schneider, executive vice president of the Claims Conference, told JNS that "we need to know the data around survivors—where they live, poverty rates, the type of persecution that they endured—and then to project that into the future first and foremost so that we can secure the maximum amount of funding and benefits.”

"Survivors are living longer, and we need to plan for that even as we are helping it happen. There are 300 agencies around the world that we fund to provide services, and this data is essential as they plan the coming years," Schneider.

It is also important to be realistic about "the inevitability of the loss of survivors" and to ensure "that institutions of memory and communities understand the projections," according to Schneider.

"Overwhelmingly, Holocaust survivors are comforted to know that they and what they endured will be remembered. Demographic reports about trends, timelines and projections help to focus communal attention on these essential issues," he told JNS. "In highlighting the fragility of the survivor community, if we are able to move even one person to spend more time with a survivor, realizing the limited opportunity, then for sure we have done some good."

"We take every opportunity to emphasize to our young people that they'll be the last in history to meet living Holocaust survivors," he added. "We can't squander those opportunities."

Nechama Grossman, 110, who lives in Israel, is one of the oldest Holocaust survivors, according to her son, Vladimir Shvetz. “She lived through the worst of humanity, and she survived. She raised her children, her grandchildren, her great-grandchildren, to teach them that unchecked hatred cannot win,” Shvetz stated. “We must remember her story, remember the Holocaust, remember all the survivors. Learn from it so that her past does not become our future.”

Leonard Zaicescu, 98, is one of the last to survive the death train from Iasi, Romania. “As long as I am still alive and have strength, I will do everything I still can so that future generations will learn about what happened—the Iasi Massacre—and that it may become known in the memory of future generations,” he stated.

“It’s sobering to see exactly how few of us Holocaust survivors are left,” stated Pinchas Gutter, one of the last to survive the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

“We have an important piece of history that only we hold and only we can tell. I hope, in the time we have, we can impart the learning from the Holocaust so that the world will never again have to endure that level of hate. I am a witness,” he stated. “Those of us witnesses still alive are working to make sure our testimonies are heard and preserved through any means possible.”

“We are counting on this generation to hear us and future generations to carry our experiences forward, so that the world does not forget,” he said.

Reps. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, and Burgess Owens (R-Utah), chairman of the House Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee, sent records request letters to the presidents of three universities scheduled for a May 7 congressional hearing on antisemitism. 

The presidents of California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, Calif., Haverford College in Haverford, Pa., and DePaul University in Chicago will “answer for mishandling of antisemitic, violent protests” during the hearing, titled “Beyond the Ivy League: Stopping the Spread of Antisemitism on American Campuses.”

The hearing is part of an effort to “ensure Jewish students across the nation don’t face threats or harassment in violation of Title VI,” Walberg said.

Each letter cited different instances of antisemitism, but all three letters requested the same records in addition to specific campus incident records. The records request included documents and policies showing changes to each school’s code of conduct following the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, as well as documents detailing each school’s relationship with pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace.

“In the month after the attack, antisemitic incidents in the United States increased 388 percent,” read the letter to Cal Poly. “America’s colleges and universities have been a major source in this rise in antisemitism.”

“In particular, the committee has found that ‘in the aftermath of that horrific event, American institutions of higher education were upended by an epidemic of hate, violence, and harassment targeting Jewish students,’” the letter continued.

Earlier in April, the Lawfare Project filed a lawsuit against DePaul on behalf of two students who allege antisemitic discrimination.

Toronto-area Jews told JNS that they aren’t surprised that three Jewish-owned stores in heavily Jewish Thornhill, just north of the city, were attacked over Passover and that they suspect that antisemitism motivated the vandal or vandals.

On Saturday, on the second to last day of the holiday, the front doors of the Judaica shop Shainee’s Gift Selections, the kosher pizzeria My Zaidy’s Pizza and a pharmacy that is part of the chain Shoppers Drug Mart were smashed in. All three are Jewish-owned, and all are part of the Spring Farm Marketplace, which locals call the Sobeys Plaza, after the large supermarket chain anchoring the plaza at Clark and Hilda Avenues.

David Fleischer, a neighborhood local, wrote on social media on Saturday that “when I heard the plaza had been hit, I correctly guessed it was the two stores with Jewish names.” (Despite its lack of a Jewish name, Shoppers has a mezuzah on the door.)

“The Shoppers is a bit of an anomaly, but it is right next to those stores in the plaza,” he wrote. “I expect to soon be assured that this is not who we are as Canadians, and so forth.”

Fleischer told JNS that “when stuff like this happens, I don’t feel like giving the benefit of the doubt.”

“There’s a concern that it’s not just some break-in, and there’s a possible antisemitic subtext,” he said. “I hope it turns out it’s just some stupid kids robbing the registers or whatever, but it feels like it’s something all the time now.”

Arnie Gotfryd, who lives in the area and runs Maxi Mind Learning, which helps train children and adults to focus and learn better using lessons from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, told JNS that he was shocked to hear of the attacks.

“I hope that our antisemitism problem is finally addressed in some meaningful way, but this is horrible,” he said. “It keeps happening. Really, things are getting worse.”

Gotfryd suspects the attacker or attackers committed hate crimes.

“Why did they hit a pizza shop? There’s nothing that you’re gonna get from there. It’s pure hate,” he told JNS. “It’s not like there’s high-priced items from inside a Judaica shop. It can’t be anything but a hate crime.”

Ahead of Canada’s federal elections, slated for April 28, Gotfryd told JNS that the Conservative Party is the only one that “knows how to bring safety and security to our neighbourhoods.”

JNS sought to interview staff members at all three stores on April 21. Staff members at the Judaica store told JNS that the cash register was targeted, and an employee at the pharmacy said that shampoo bottles were taken. Staff at the pizza place wouldn’t comment, even anonymously.

The doors at all three stores had been boarded up on Monday. 

Golden Chopstix, which is kosher and part of the shopping center, was not attacked, nor was Sobeys, which has a large kosher section.

Melissa Lantsman, a Jewish member of the Canadian Parliament who represents Thornhill, wrote that “three Jewish businesses, in the largest Jewish community in Canada, were attacked on a Jewish holiday. Call this what it is. A blatant attempt to intimidate and target our community.”

“My grandfather started one of these businesses when he came to Canada to give us a better life. Today, this country is unrecognizable,” Lantsman stated. “Since 2015, hate crimes are up 251%, while antisemitic hate crimes are up a staggering 405%. Jewish Canadians deserve to feel safe and secure in their homes, schools and businesses, but after 10 years of this Liberal government, it’s the exact opposite.”

The York Regional Police stated on Saturday that “cash registers were targeted in all three incidents.”

“There is no evidence to suggest that this is hate-motivated,” the police stated. “We are asking anyone with info or video to come forward.”

Steven Del Duca, the mayor of Vaughan, where the attacks occurred, stated on Saturday that the vandalism and thefts were a “clear attempt to intimidate our Jewish residents in Vaughan.”

“This is just the latest example of behavior that has been tolerated for far too long,” the mayor stated. “Leaders at all levels of government need to move beyond words and start taking action before this unbearable situation gets worse.”

Amir Epstein, co-founder and director of the Jewish civil rights group Tafsik, told JNS that My Zaidy’s Pizza has been “a beloved staple in the community for 40 years.”

“The level of antisemitism and intimidation we are experiencing has never been this severe,” said Epstein, who lives in the area. “Under the current government, we have witnessed an unprecedented rise in hate and violence.”

“The influx of extremists into our country has contributed to the alarming increase in attacks on our places of worship, schools and restaurants,” Epstein said. “The stores which were attacked will survive and thrive, but the fabric of our Canadian values has eroded and decayed under the Liberals.”

“They have allowed and in some circumstances encouraged this hateful behavior. What these hate-filled individuals fail to understand is that our community is among the most resilient in the world,” Epstein added. “We will continue to stand strong and unite in the face of adversity.”

The top editor of Columbia Journalism Review was fired on Thursday after he objected to a “significant ethical problem” in a reporter’s coverage of the detention of a Palestinian graduate of Columbia University.

Sewell Chan, the former executive editor of CJR, wrote in a series of social-media posts on Friday that Jelani Cobb, the dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, which publishes CJR, fired the longtime journalist after “three pointed conversations.”

“One was with a fellow who is passionately devoted to the cause of the Gaza protests at Columbia and had covered the recent detention of a Palestinian graduate for an online publication he had just written about, positively, for CJR,” Chan wrote. “I told him there was a significant ethical problem with writing for an outlet he had just covered.”

The other two incidents related to a CJR report on a sexual harassment investigation that remains unpublished and a dispute over the writing output and office presence of another employee, per Chan’s account.

Chan did not name the reporter with whom he allegedly had the ethical problem, but his account appears to describe Meghnad Bose, a fellow at CJR who wrote a glowing profile in February of Drop Site News for its coverage “documenting Israel’s crimes” and its decision to interview Hamas officials while seeking minimal comment from the Israeli military.

In March, Bose wrote a profile for Drop Site News of Mahmoud Khalil, an Algerian national of Palestinian descent who recently graduated from Columbia and who was one of the leaders of the anti-Israel protest movement at the school.

The Trump administration arrested Khalil in March and has initiated deportation proceedings against him over his alleged support for Hamas. (JNS sought comment from Bose about Chan’s dismissal.)

Chan, who was previously editor-in-chief of the Texas Tribune and who also worked for The Los Angeles Times, New York Times and Washington Post, wrote that his oversight of the work of his reporters was intended to provide “rigorous, fair, careful editorial oversight” at a publication that is “supposed to monitor the media.”

“The norms at Columbia are apparently very different,” he wrote.

“This sounds like a prime example of why Columbia is so deeply off-track and why actual ‘journalism’ has almost completely been abandoned,” wrote Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

“Never Again” is what I heard all my life. Not just once, but over and over, as if saying it enough times could make it true. The meaning was clear. The world had learned. Humanity had seen where hatred leads. The horrors of the Holocaust would never be allowed to happen again.

I believed that because I trusted that the lessons of history had been absorbed—that antisemitism, exposed in its most horrific form, had been rejected by the international community. I believed this hatred belonged to the past.

I believed the world had changed—that after the Holocaust, antisemitism had become morally indefensible. I believed that institutions, governments and civil society had internalized history’s lessons and that the success and integration of Jews in democratic societies, alongside decades of interfaith dialogue and Holocaust education, had created a genuine shift. The State of Israel—strong, sovereign, open to the world—seemed proof that we had entered a different chapter.

But then came Oct. 7, and I woke up to the fact that I was very wrong.

Antisemitism is not a relic of the past. It didn’t die with the liberation of the camps or the creation of Israel. It has simply learned how to survive. It adapts to its surroundings, shifts its language, moves from theology to ideology, from race theory to political cause. It doesn’t disappear. It mutates. And always, at its core, remains the same impulse: to cast the Jew as the problem.

Israel was attacked. Families were slaughtered in their own homes. Children were taken hostage. It was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. Yet the predominant response was often not one of grief, shock or moral outrage.

In city after city, people marched calling for the end of the Jewish state. “From the river to the sea.” “Globalize the intifada.” “Resistance is justified.” These weren’t fringe chants—they were shouted by tens of thousands of people in capitals around the world. Flags of terror groups were raised. On campuses, Jewish students were harassed and isolated. In much of the public conversation, the outrage wasn’t directed at the terrorists but at Israel itself.

Perhaps most painful of all, many voices we once stood beside—civil rights groups, progressive leaders, minority communities we had supported and defended—were suddenly silent. Or worse, joined in the criticism.

But not everyone turned away. For the first time in history, the Jewish people were not abandoned entirely. On Oct. 7, as the world regressed into hatred, the Christian community stepped forward—a global movement of more than 700 million evangelical Christians, many of whom raised their voices with clarity and conviction.

Their support was not theoretical. It was loud, clear, personal. It came through prayer, through giving, through public statements, through messages of love. In churches across the world, Christians prayed for the hostages by name. They gave generously to help families under attack. They carried Israeli flags when many Jews were too afraid to do so themselves.

This mattered.

When so many chose silence, they spoke. When others turned away, they stood beside us. They reminded us that “Never Again” is not something Jews carry alone—and not something we can abandon when it becomes uncomfortable to uphold.

This week, we mark Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, starting on the evening of April 23 in Israel. We remember the 6 million Jews murdered not only by the machinery of death but by a world that looked away. We remember the families destroyed, the communities erased, and the silence that made it possible.

But remembrance is not enough. Not this year. Because the evil that led to Auschwitz has resurfaced—this time in language dressed up as justice, in hatred disguised as equity. This year, Holocaust Memorial Day isn’t only about what was done to us; it’s about what is being done to us now. Here in Israel, the warning couldn’t be more urgent.

A week before Passover, I was in a meeting in Jerusalem when sirens went off. We ran for shelter. Within a minute, I got a message from my daughter. She was in Poland. “Are you OK?” she asked, and then sent a photo of herself walking through Auschwitz, draped in an Israeli flag. “Even with sirens,” she said, “you’re lucky to be home.”

She didn’t hear sirens that day. But she wasn’t safe. Her group traveled with armed guards. They weren’t allowed to post their location. Because even in Auschwitz, even now, Jewish children are still targets.

This Holocaust Memorial Day, I am mourning the collapse of a vow. “Never Again” fell on Oct. 7 as quickly as it rose in 1945. And yet I am still hopeful. Still grateful. Because history is not repeating itself entirely.

The Jewish people have a state. And we have friends.

Although many turned away, millions of Christians did not. Quietly, steadily, without needing to be asked, without needing to be taught—they see, and they stand by our side.

Maybe that is what gives “Never Again” a chance to remain true. Not because the danger has faded—it hasn’t. Not because the hatred is gone—it isn’t. But because this time, when the words could have emptied out completely, someone stepped into them—and held them up.

And maybe that is what it will take, people willing to stand inside those words—not just to repeat them, but to carry their weight.

Maybe that is what “Never Again” has always meant. Not a promise but a shared responsibility.

And that, more than anything, is what we need now.

The U.S. Department of Education announced that it had sent a records request to Harvard University last week, after a review of the university’s foreign assets revealed “incomplete and inaccurate disclosures.” 

“As a recipient of federal funding, Harvard University must be transparent about its relations with foreign sources and governments,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said. “Unfortunately, our review indicated that Harvard has not been fully transparent or complete in its disclosures, which is both unacceptable and unlawful.”

The records request asks Harvard to comply within 30 days of receipt.

“This records request is the Trump administration’s first step to ensure Harvard is not being manipulated by, or doing the bidding of, foreign entities, which include actors who are hostile to the interests of the United States and American students,” McMahon said. “We hope Harvard will respect its own motto and be truthful in its federal filings and foreign relationships.”

U.S. law requires postsecondary institutions that receive federal funding to disclose foreign gifts and contracts to the Education Department if their value exceeds $250,000.

U.S. President Donald Trump and the federal Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism recently froze $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million worth of contracts to the Ivy League school unless it met certain demands, which Harvard rejected. Trump also directed the Internal Revenue Service to look into removing Harvard’s tax-exempt status.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security canceled $2.7 million in grants to the Ivy League school.