Two different reports about Harvard published on Tuesday, April 29 by the University, established that an anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim climate had been established on the campus of the prestigious American University, in the viewfinder of Donald Trump, and had pressed it to act to remedy it.
These two reports of several hundred pages, built in particular from questionnaires and hundreds of testimonies of students and supervisors carried out since January 2024, have been returned at the time when the university established near Boston (northeast) has attracted the laughter of Donald Trump, who recently portrayed it in the “extreme anti -Semitic institution”, “” progressive damping “and” threatens Demomy “.
Harvard, like other renowned American universities, Columbia in particular, is accused by the Republican president of having left antiamitism thriving on his campus during the student movements against the war in Gaza directed by Israel after Hamas’ attack on October 7, 2023.
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A first working group on anti -Semitism and Antiisraeli positions, mainly composed of members of the teaching staff but also of students, established that the two phenomena “were fed, practiced and tolerated, not only in Harvard, but also more widely in the academic world.”
The report urges the University of Multiple Rooms to “become a leader in the fight against anti -Semitism and antiisraelis positions.”
Another different work group, dedicated to him to anti-Muslims, Anti-Arab and Anti-Palestinian positions, concluded that “a feeling deeply rooted by fear between students, teachers and staff.” The interviewed people describe “a feeling of precariousness, abandonment, threat and isolation, as well as an omnipresent climate of intolerance,” write to their authors.
“Harvard cannot and will not tolerate intolerance. We will continue to protect all the members of our community and preserve them from harassment,” is involved in a letter that accompanies the two reports of Harvard president, Alan Garber, at the initiative of the two reports, promising to “supervise the implementation of” recommended recommendations. “
Harvard, the oldest university in the United States and one of the best classified in the world, has distinguished being the first to attack the Trump administration against a freezing of more than two billion dollars in federal subsidies, decided after the famous institution refused to meet a series of requirements of the president.
Donald Trump, who criticizes universities for being progressive challenges of protest, wants to have the right of passage of students to admission students, hiring teachers or programs. The accusation is frequently used by its administration to justify their measures against higher education establishments, as well as against certain foreign students linked to the demonstrations against the war in Gaza.
Source: BFM TV
