Trump ramps up heat on Harvard: Here are 5 reasons from the university's own investigation

The Trump administration escalated its war with Harvard University on Tuesday announcing it will claw back the university's remaining million in federal funding effectively ending all financial ties with the Ivy League institution The establishment is out of business with Harvard University fully a senior administration official stated Fox News Digital At the center of the fight are accusations of Harvard failing to combat a campus society of antisemitism While the university accuses the White House of overreach and insists it is defending free speech its own internal analysis appears to have handed Trump authorities ammunition Earlier this year Harvard President Alan Gerber called the academic year disappointing and painful as he unveiled the results of two separate task forces one examining antisemitism and the other focused on anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bias The summary from the antisemitism task force painted a bleak picture of life for Jewish and Israeli students on campus A large number of mentioned they felt ostracized harassed online and unsupported by the university Specific students reported investigators they had been pressured by peers and even the faculty to disavow ties to Israel to prove they were one of the good ones Others chose to hide their Jewish identity altogether Here is a look back at more findings of the record issued April Jewish Arab and Muslim students at Harvard shared feeling ostracized pushed to the margins by their peers and experiencing online harassment Jewish and Israeli students advised the antisemitism task force the university s response to complaints was unclear and unconscionably slow Particular Jewish students according to the description had been notified by peers and even faculty members they were associated with something offensive and in selected cases that their very presence was an offense Specific decided to conceal their identities from classmates while others were sought to renounce any ties to Israel to prove they were one of the good ones TRUMP SAYS HARVARD'S FOREIGN STUDENTS ARE FROM COUNTRIES PAYING 'NOTHING' FOR THEIR TEACHING No other group was constantly advised that their history was a sham that they or their co-religionists or co-ethnics were supremacists and oppressors and that they had no right to the protections offered by anti-bias norms read one section of the record Plenty of Jewish students informed us they feel like objects of suspicion One Jewish graduate participant explained the task force Jews are now being treated like Republicans were when I was in college That comment of subject points to another dilemma with which elite universities have been struggling the document announced At times the anti-Muslim and antisemitism task force reports were seemingly at odds with each other Muslim and pro-Palestinian students broadcasted a widespread fear of doxxing or having their personal identifying information shared publicly with the intent to intimidate or harm them They revealed often seeing pictures of their faces on the sides of trucks driven around campus by pro-Israel groups Forty-seven percent of Muslim students announced feeling physically unsafe on campus during the school year compared with of Jewish respondents The antisemitism overview called for a set of rules to govern permissible behaviors for instructors in classrooms while the anti-Muslim and Arab bias task force called for the university to do more to protect academic freedom and free speech JUDGE TEMPORARILY PAUSES TRUMP MOVE TO CANCEL HARVARD CANDIDATE VISA PROCEDURES AFTER LAWSUITThe antisemitism overview located Harvard classes often portrayed partisan and one-sided pedagogy that failed to account for Jewish and Israeli perspectives particularly within the university's divinity school and school of general healthcare The task force also documented instances when faculty canceled or ended class early on the day of a pro-Gaza protest or gave time at the end of class for students to promote various solidarity groups like the Palestine Solidarity Committee The summary recommended expanding courses on antisemitism Judaism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to foster a more inclusive and comprehensive academic milieu Anti-Zionist views seem built into several classes one participant noted Fox News Digital has reached out to Harvard for comment on the overview In the s and s the record exposed that at the university pro-Israel organizers and pro-Palestinian organizers had disagreed strongly yet often worked together to build bridges and to imagine jointly a better future for the region Those efforts started to fade in the s amidst the Second Intifada and through the Israel-Hamas wars of the s and by the time Hamas crashed through the Israeli demarcation fence in the conditions at Harvard as in the Middle East itself were very different the record read Certain pro-Palestinian campus organizers viewed bridge-building engagements as a form of betrayal the statement identified The record detected that a multitude of students including Jewish ones had sympathy for Israel s massive military response that followed the Oct Hamas attack on Israel However campus protests crossed a line from a call for freedom and measure for Palestinians and Jews alike to a stereotyped notion that Israel is not a state but rather a settler colony of white Europeans who have no real connection with the land they had stolen that epitomized aggression and was bereft of virtues The summary determined that changes in Harvard s admissions policies meant that by the Jewish novice region was much smaller than it was in the early s The hostility that specific students had felt the record exposed was degrading to the university and various Jewish students turned down offers of admission to Harvard over it Chosen Jewish students vying for doctorate degrees declared they decided to leave for private industry jobs because of the perception that academia is unfriendly to Jews Certain non-Jewish faculty members communicated the task force that Jewish candidates had turned down post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard and Jewish healthcare school students shied away from residencies at Harvard hospitals because of the deep politicization of the context The task force determined Harvard should change its admissions protocol to reflect what campus should look like people listening to each other The task force also located a lack of oversight over seemingly university-endorsed educational content The Harvard Chan School of Community Robustness for example launched a Palestinian initiative in that is run by a leadership collective of five individuals none of whom hold a tenure-track faculty appointment at Harvard The use of the Harvard brand for a research or teaching project creates expectations among Harvard faculty staff students and the broader residents Programs operating without the guidance and oversight of Harvard s regular faculty with expertise pitfall falling short of these expectations the task force unveiled In another example the task force identified the coursework for a master's degree in Religion and Citizens Life to be misrepresented The venture is advertised as offering students a better understanding of religion to illuminate a range of contemporary issues Both faculty and students did not expect the effort to be as focused on the Israel Palestinian issue as it was and a few students revealed project offerings and materials disproportionately presented Israelis and Jews as guilty of monstrous historical crimes which require both repentance and redress CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPThe project appears to have focused on non-mainstream Jewish religious perspectives that lack widespread promotion within the Jewish diaspora or in Israel It also linked Jews to two great sins according to the task force the creation of the state of Israel and participation in White supremacy which staff appeared to embrace openly