Donald Trump broke out on Thursday, April 24 against Harvard, who became the main objective of a broader offensive against the US education system. He accused the prestigious university, one of the best classified in the world, of being an “anti -Semitic institution of the left extreme” and a “threat to democracy”, in a long message in its social social network.
The Trump administration accusation frequently uses the accusation of anti -Semitism to justify its measures against higher education establishments, as well as against certain foreign students.
In an open letter addressed on Thursday to Donald Trump, five Democratic senators of Jewish confession accuse the government of using the fight against semitism as a deviant medium “of attacking universities and public schools in the country.”
“We reject the policies of your administration aimed at reducing the financing of universities and punishing them for free, since this represents a deviation from the fight against semitism and decreases it,” write to elected officials, including Chuck Schumer, the head of the Democrats in the Senate.
For the US president, Harvard is “a progressive disaster” and “accepts students from all over the world who want to destroy our country.”
He had signed a series of decrees on Wednesday with a goal of increasing a little more pressure on American universities and public education in general.
Disputes in a gel of subsidies
In his message, the former real estate developer calls to “convert” a lawyer who works for his company, the Trump organization and also represents Harvard.
Shortly after, his son Eric Trump told CNN to separate from William Burck, a very appreciated lawyer in the Republican circles, who had been recruited as an advisor to the Trump organization and that Harvard also accused to defend the university against the White House.
The University had attacked the Trump administration on Monday against a freezing of federal subsidies, determined after the famous institution refused to meet a series of White House requirements.
The US president, who criticizes universities for being centers of progressive protest, wants to have a right of passage on the procedures for the admission of students, hiring teachers and programs.
Harvard took the lead in an opposition movement linked by other big names such as Yale or Princeton, who rejected together “” political interference “, in a statement on Tuesday.
Trump wants to dismantle the Ministry of Education
Donald Trump’s offensive in education, one of the privileged battlefields of the American right, goes beyond higher education.
The US president, who wants to dismantle the Federal Ministry of Education to give all the power in this area to the United States, already largely competent in the issue, signed a new volley of decrees on Wednesday that it is supposed to prevent progressive ideas spreading in schools.
One of the texts thus promises to strengthen the powers of teachers and schools in terms of “discipline.” Another is addressed to organizations that evaluate the performance of universities and their eligibility for federal financing (“accreditors”).
“Many of them have been based on an ‘awakening’ ideology to evaluate universities, instead of based on merit and performance,” said White House General, Will Scharf.
By “Wake”, the White House and, in general, the American right designates ideas aimed at promoting diversity and discriminating, racial and sexual essentially.
Source: BFM TV
