The federal Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced on Tuesday that it was canceling another $450 million in grants to Harvard University, beyond the $2.2 billion it terminated last week.
The task force, which includes the U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services, as well as the U.S. General Services Administration, stated that “Harvard University has repeatedly failed to confront the pervasive race discrimination and antisemitic harassment plaguing its campus.”
The Cambridge, Mass., Ivy League school’s Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias has recognized its “shameful legacy” and exposed the reality that “Jewish students were subjected to pervasive insults, physical assault and intimidation, with no meaningful response from Harvard’s leadership.”
The task force noted recent reporting of a “pattern of endemic race discrimination” at Harvard Law Review, when the journal considered submissions.
“Even more troubling, the Harvard Law Review awarded a $65,000 fellowship—meant to ‘serve the public interest’—to a protester who faced criminal charges for assaulting a Jewish student on campus,” the task force stated. “The decision was reviewed and approved by a faculty committee, demonstrating just how radical Harvard has become.”
“Harvard’s campus, once a symbol of academic prestige, has become a breeding ground for virtue signaling and discrimination,” it added. “This is not leadership. It is cowardice. And it’s not academic freedom. It’s institutional disenfranchisement.”
