The Trump administration is pausing $210 million in federal funding to Princeton University pending an investigation into Jew-hatred on the Ivy League campus, The Daily Caller reported on Monday.
A Trump administration official told the outlet that the private New Jersey university has “perpetuated racist and antisemitic policies.” (JNS sought comment from the U.S. Department of Education.)
Christopher Eisgruber, the Princeton president, wrote to the university community on Tuesday that the school “received notifications from government agencies, including the Department of Energy, NASA and the Defense Department, suspending several dozen Princeton research grants.”
“The full rationale for this action is not yet clear, but I want to be clear about the principles that will guide our response,” he wrote, per a copy of the letter that Princeton shared with JNS. “Princeton University will comply with the law. We are committed to fighting antisemitism and all forms of discrimination, and we will cooperate with the government in combating antisemitism.”
“Princeton will also vigorously defend academic freedom and the due process rights of this university,” Eisgruber added in the letter.
The U.S. Department of Education launched an investigation under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act almost a year ago after a complaint by Campus Reform editor-in-chief Zachary Marschall alleged that the school has failed to counter Jew-hatred.
Marschall’s complaint cited numerous incidents on campus, including an Oct. 25, 2023, protest, during which students reportedly chanted “intifada” and “brick by brick, wall by wall, apartheid has got to fall.”
The Campus Reform editor wrote in the complaint that “the violent words of these protesters completely disregard the atrocities Hamas has already committed and promises to commit in the future against the people of Israel, including raping, murdering and kidnapping civilians.”
The Trump administration announced yesterday that it would carry out a “comprehensive review” of $9 billion in federal funding for Harvard University over the school’s failure to protect Jewish students.
