On Wednesday, Harvard University released its internal report titled “Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias.”
“[A] new generation of student activists seems to have begun to perceive Israel as a symbol and vehicle of the evils of the United States and the rest of the Western world,” the <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/FINAL-Harvard-ASAIB-Report-4.29.25.pdf">report</a> stated. “A Harvard faculty member who works closely with students reported to us that some Jewish students choose to hide their identities on campus, which was something the faculty member could not have imagined would ever be the case at Harvard.”
The report noted an “antisemitic cartoon circulated in February 2024 by groups of pro-Palestinian Harvard students, staff, and faculty on social media. The cartoon, depicting a white hand with a Jewish star holding a noose around the heads of a Black man (Muhammad Ali) and an Arab man (Gamal Abdel Nasser), came from 1960s Black student activism, and it was widely condemned as antisemitic by Black leaders at that time.”
“The more time we spent on this problem, the more we learned about how demonization of Israel has impacted a much wider swath of campus life than we would have imagined,” the authors wrote. “Pro-Palestinian activists often target what they see as key planks in Western support for Israel: 1. the belief that Israeli Jews have a historic connection to the territory of the modern State of Israel; 2. a view of Israel as a Western liberal democracy; and 3. the post-Holocaust social prohibition on antisemitism, whether expressed as outright Jew-hatred or the denial of the State of Israel’s legitimacy.”
The report references the testimony of former Harvard President Claudine Gay before Congress, where Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and others asked her whether people calling for genocide against Jews violated Harvard’s code of conduct. Gay insisted that it “depends on the context.” The Harvard report called Gay’s answers “strained efforts,” writing, “What seemed to many like President Gay’s strained efforts to avoid providing a clear yes or no answer ignited a firestorm of criticism nationwide.”
The report noted a letter to the editor of the Harvard Crimson from the student president of Harvard Hillel’s undergraduate student Jewish community stating, “Being Jewish at Harvard today is vastly more difficult than it was [for college students] in the ‘90s.”
“We were surprised to learn just how correct this seems to be,” the report stated.

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The Trump administration&#8217;s war with Harvard University continued on Monday as the Education Department and the Department of Health and Human Services launched a probe into the university&#8217;s law journal over its treatment of white contributors.
The investigation will focus on reports of the Harvard Law Review evaluating journal membership and article publication on the basis of race as opposed to merit. Civil rights law prohibits federal dollars from going toward entities that practice racial discrimination.
“Harvard Law Review’s article selection process appears to pick winners and losers on the basis of race, employing a spoils system in which the race of the legal scholar is as, if not more, important than the merit of the submission,” said Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor. “Title VI’s demands are clear: recipients of federal financial assistance may not discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin. No institution—no matter its pedigree, prestige, or wealth—is above the law. The Trump Administration will not allow Harvard, or any other recipients of federal funds, to trample on anyone’s civil rights.”
The Trump administration specifically cited reports that a Harvard Law Review editor said it was &#8220;concerning&#8221; that four out of five individuals who wanted to reply to an article on police reform &#8220;are white men.&#8221; Another exampled listed by the administration was an editor at the journal saying “that a piece should be subject to expedited review because the author was a minority.”
Anthony Archeval, the acting Director of HHS Office for Civil Rights, said that these kinds of actions could set back students.
“Law journal membership and publication are crucial achievements that build momentum for law students’ careers and shape legal scholarship,” he said. “This investigation reflects the Administration’s common-sense understanding that these opportunities should be earned through merit-based standards and not race.”
In a statement, a spokesman for Harvard Law School noted that the Harvard Law Review was &#8220;a student-run organization.&#8221;
&#8220;Harvard Law School is committed to ensuring that the programs and activities it oversees are in compliance with all applicable laws and to investigating any credibly alleged violations. The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization that is legally independent from the law school,&#8221; the spokesman told The Daily Wire.
The Trump administration has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-calls-harvard-an-anti-semitic-threat-to-democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">battling with Harvard</a> over its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and handling of anti-Israel protests. Earlier this month, the Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard.
Last week, Trump wrote on Truth Social that Harvard was a &#8220;Far Left Institution&#8221; and &#8220;a threat to Democracy.&#8221;

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Harvard University sued the federal government on Monday over threats to cut taxpayer funding to the school.
The lawsuit is the latest escalation in a growing feud between the Trump administration and the university. The government has put increasing pressure on the school over pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas protests that rocked the campus after the October 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel.
Last week, the Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard. The administration is <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/trump-administration-irate-at-harvard-will-pull-additional-1-billion-in-funding-8c209113" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> considering freezing another $1 billion in funding after the college administrators released a letter of demands from the government that government officials considered private correspondence amid the negotiations.
“The consequences of the government’s overreach will be severe and long-lasting,” Harvard President Alan Garber said in an open letter announcing the lawsuit.
Garber said the funding cuts would jeopardize the university’s research projects on childhood cancer.
“The Government has not – and cannot – identify any rational connection between antisemitism concerns and the medical, scientific, technological, and other research it has frozen that aims to save American lives, foster American success, preserve American security, and maintain America’s position as a global leader in innovation,” the <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/04/Harvard-Funding-Freeze-Order-Complaint.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> says.
The Trump administration is leaning on Harvard and other universities, mostly elite Ivy League schools, to reform and restructure their administration over anti-Semitic incidents that have broken out on the campuses in recent years. The government’s Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism has led the push to crack down on the universities.
Harvard, the oldest and wealthiest university in the United States, has made an aggressive push to counter the administration after Columbia University agreed to demands from the government in the hopes of getting its government funding restored. Harvard’s antagonistic stance has frustrated officials in the administration.
“Instead of grandstanding, Harvard should focus on rebuilding confidence among all students, particularly Jewish students,” a White House spokesman said in a statement to The Wall Street Journal on Monday. “The White House remains open to dialogue, but serious changes are needed at Harvard.”
The Trump administration has threatened to go beyond Harvard’s access to federal funds, warning that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may strip the university of access to foreign exchange students, as well. DHS has also demanded that the university turn over records on its foreign exchange students accused of “illegal and violent activities.”
Treasury Department officials are also reportedly considering revoking the university’s nonprofit status.

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Harvard Sues To Restore Taxpayer Funding Frozen By Trump Admin

According to The Washington Post, the Trump administration is pushing the Internal Revenue Service to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status.
The Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/16/trump-harvard-tax-exempt-irs/">reported</a> that three sources informed the outlet that President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration had asked the IRS to make the move, although there is no confirmation that it has done so. WaPo also reported that its sources claimed Andrew De Mello, the IRS’s acting chief counsel, was asked by the Treasury Department to take the action. Sources also claimed this is part of a feud with Ivy League schools that the Trump administration views as &#8220;woke.&#8221;
“I think they’re going to go after a whole bunch of them,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) said. “I’m not sure why we need to be funding people who aggressively refuse to give up a variety of values and structures that most Americans don’t agree with.”
On Tuesday. President Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114342374504628520">posted</a> on Truth Social, “Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting ‘Sickness?’ Remember, Tax Exempt Status is totally contingent on acting in the PUBLIC INTEREST!”
White House spokesperson Harrison Fields stated: &#8220;Any forthcoming actions by the IRS will be conducted independently of the president, and investigations into any institution’s violations of its tax status were initiated prior to the president’s TRUTH.”
In January 2024, Rep. Jason T. Smith (R-MO), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/10/jason-smith-harvard-mit-penn-might-not-deserve-tax-exemption-00134815" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested</a> that the responses of Harvard, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT to the antisemitism on their campuses might justify revoking their tax-exempt status. The college’s actions “raise several questions, including whether your institutions are fulfilling their educational purposes as required to receive 501c3 tax-exempt status &#8230;”
On Monday, the Trump administration’s Department of Education announced it would freeze $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year contract value to Harvard University after the school said it would not comply with the Trump administration’s demand that the university <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/04/Harvard-Response-2025-04-14.pdf">claimed</a> would “invade university freedoms.”
Last Friday, the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services sent a <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/04/Letter-Sent-to-Harvard-2025-04-11.pdf">letter</a> to Harvard in which they stated, “By August 2025, the University must adopt and implement merit-based hiring policies, and cease all preferences based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin …” adding that the same attitude must prevail in admissions policies. The correspondence also declared that by the same date, the university must “prevent admitting students hostile to the American values and institutions inscribed in the American Constitution and Declaration of Independence, including students supportive of terrorism and anti-Semitism.”
The university “shall commission an external party … to audit the student body, faculty and leadership for viewpoint diversity” by August 2025, the letter continued, in order to ensure that the leftist perspective that dominates the university should be contrasted with other viewpoints.
Alan Garber, the president of Harvard University, responded with a <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-american-higher-education/">statement</a> in which he said, “We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement,” contending, “The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights” and claiming the administration’s demands violated “Harvard’s First Amendment rights … threatens our values as a private institution devoted to the pursuit, production, and dissemination of knowledge.”

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Another legal battle is brewing over the deportation of half a million migrants allowed into the United States by Joe Biden. President Donald Trump pulls the federal funding rug out from under NPR, PBS – and Harvard. Will it hold up in Congress and the courts? And, Mark Zuckerberg is back in the hot seat as Facebook is accused of antitrust practices and cozying up to China.
It’s Wednesday, April 16, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. If you’d rather listen to your news, today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below:
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<h2>Trump Blocks Migrant Benefits, Border Crossings At All-Time Low</h2>
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Topline: Border crossings continue to fall at a historic pace as President Trump takes new steps to prevent illegal immigrants from accessing taxpayer benefits.
In recent years, the Biden administration enacted a controversial humanitarian parole program that offered legal status and two-year work permits to migrants from Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba, and Nicaragua. More than 530,000 people from those countries took advantage and flew directly to the United States. In March, President Trump moved to revoke legal status for those migrants, giving them until April 24 to leave the country or face deportation.
The White House argued these migrants were undermining American workers and faced little vetting before entering the country. But this week, a federal judge appointed by President Barack Obama blocked that effort, saying the Trump administration must instead offer each migrant a case-by-case review before revoking legal status.
However, in general, the Trump administration’s immigration efforts have borne fruit. The latest report from Customs and Border Protection confirmed that border crossings fell 95% in <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/04/icymi-illegal-border-crossings-hit-new-record-low-in-march/">March</a> compared to the same month last year, with just 7,100 migrants apprehended across the entire month – that’s roughly the number of migrants that came in every single day during Biden’s term in office. The Trump administration has also continued to go after the roughly 435,000 people living here illegally who’ve been convicted of additional crimes. ICE arrests have tripled in the last three months, and the number of illegal aliens in detention facilities is at an all-time high.
“We did in three weeks what Biden didn’t do in three or four years,” Border czar Tom Homan <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1911893560116592730">said</a>. “Right now as you and I are talking, we have the most secure border in the history of this nation and the data proves it.”
According to The New York Times, the White House is now seeking $45 billion in additional funding to construct new detention facilities so it can expedite its mass deportation effort. The public still broadly approves of Trump’s immigration policy.
<h2>Trump Moves To Cut Funding To NPR, PBS &amp; Harvard</h2>
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Topline: President Trump is renewing his push to strip NPR and PBS of their funding while also freezing more than $2 billion in federal grants earmarked for Harvard. The moves have sparked heated debate, with supporters calling it a step toward fiscal responsibility and critics warning it threatens independent journalism and academic freedom.
Conservatives have talked about defunding NPR and PBS for years, but now they appear to have the political winds at their backs. Trust in the media is at an all-time low, and a lot of Americans are sympathetic to the idea that we do not need to spend billions of dollars in taxpayer money on these entities that many view as biased.
President Trump specifically accused NPR of being “a mouthpiece for the radical left.” And he’s calling on Republicans in Congress to introduce legislation that rescinds the funds that had been previously approved. Rescission would require the approval of the House and the Senate, where Republicans control narrow majorities and are already negotiating a major spending package.
Meanwhile: The Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard after the university refused demands to overhaul its policies, and as much as $9 billion in funding could be on the table. The White House, through its Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, claims Harvard hasn’t done enough to address antisemitism tied to radical anti-Israel and pro-Hamas campus protests. They demanded changes like banning face masks, which a lot of the protestors wear, and enforcing merit-based rather than race-based admissions.
Harvard’s president, Alan Garber, rejected these demands, calling them a violation of First Amendment rights and academic freedom, saying in a statement “No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”
<h2>Facebook Faces Antitrust Lawsuit</h2>
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Topline: FTC vs Meta Platforms, Inc. began in court this week. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat for his second day of testimony in the trial that risks breaking up his social media empire.
This case was initially brought during President Trump’s first term and has taken more than four years to work through the courts. The FTC says that Meta is a monopoly that has bought its way out of competing. The government argues that when Facebook paid $1 billion for Instagram in 2012 and bought WhatsApp in a nearly $22 billion deal in 2014, Facebook illegally cornered what the FTC calls the “personal social-networking” market. According to the government, the only other major competitors to Facebook are Snapchat and an app called MeWe.
Meta disputes this. It says the market is actually much larger, and includes TikTok, YouTube, and X. For instance, when TikTok had an outage earlier this year, Instagram saw its usage spike, which suggests that people use the sites interchangeably. Meta has also argued that by going after it, the Trump administration is helping the Chinese-owned TikTok even more. TikTok was banned in the United States <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tiktok-rages-after-u-s-passes-law-requiring-its-sale-from-chinese-parent-company">last year</a>, but earlier this month, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-extends-tiktok-sale-deadline-by-75-days-as-acquisition-talks-continue">extended</a> the pause on a Congressionally-approved ban on that app that was put into place in January.
This trial is expected to go on for eight weeks, so there will be plenty more ahead. But if Meta loses, it could be forced to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp.

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Former President Barack Obama, whose own administration excluded colleges that refused federal funds from its College Scorecard, railed against the Trump administration, calling it “ham-handed” for penalizing Harvard University for its lackadaisical response to antisemitism and reluctance to countenance conservative viewpoints.
In 2015, the Obama administration issued its “College Scorecard,” which offered information about college and universities&#8217; graduation rates and the average salary of graduates. But schools such as Hillsdale College, Grove City College and Christendom College, none of which accepted federal funding and thus were not beholden to federal guidelines, were <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2015/09/18/obama-administration-slams-conservative-school-as-not-a-real-college/%E2%80%99" target="_blank" rel="noopener">excluded</a> from the list.
Obama&#8217;s own administration, as well as the Biden administration, was rife with anti-Israel sentiment and actions, as documented <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-leaks-info-about-israel-the-obama-biden-administration-was-infamous-for-that" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
Last Friday, the Trump administration told Harvard it had to clean up its act by August 2025 by more aggressively confronting antisemitism and its own leftist orthodoxy. Harvard University President Alan Garber responded in a <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-american-higher-education/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> that the administration’s demands violated “Harvard’s First Amendment rights and exceeds the statutory limits of the government’s authority under Title VI. And it threatens our values as a private institution devoted to the pursuit, production, and dissemination of knowledge.”
On Monday, the Department of Education <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/joint-task-force-combat-anti-semitism-statement-regarding-harvard-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">informed</a> Harvard, “The disruption of learning that has plagued campuses in recent years is unacceptable. The harassment of Jewish students is intolerable. It is time for elite universities to take the problem seriously and commit to meaningful change if they wish to continue receiving taxpayer support. The Joint Task Force to combat anti-Semitism is announcing a freeze on $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60M in multi-year contract value to Harvard University.”
“Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions – rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking concrete steps to make sure all students at Harvard can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect,” Obama huffed. “Let’s hope other institutions follow suit.”
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In 2023, the Supreme Court ruled against Harvard and the University of North Carolina in a suit accusing Harvard’s admissions process of discriminating against Asian-American applicants. The decision “concluded that the race-based admissions policies of both universities violate the Equal Protection Clause because their admissions process unlawfully incorporates an applicant’s race throughout and for many applicants, ‘race is a determinative’ factor,” Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation <a href="https://www.heritage.org/courts/commentary/supreme-court-finally-ends-racist-discrimination-college-admissions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted.</a> “The universities also failed to show a connection between the discriminatory means they employ in admissions and their stated goal of diversity.”

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The Trump administration task force on anti-Semitism has launched a review of billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded grants and contracts to Harvard University.
The task force is scrutinizing $8.7 billion in multi-year grant commitments to Harvard and its affiliates, according to an announcement by the Department of Education. The review will also encompass $255.6 million in contracts between Harvard and the federal government.
“Harvard has served as a symbol of the American Dream for generations – the pinnacle aspiration for students all over the world to work hard and earn admission to the storied institution,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a <a href="https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/ed-hhs-and-gsa-initiate-federal-contract-and-grant-review-of-harvard-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. “Harvard’s failure to protect students on campus from anti-Semitic discrimination – all while promoting divisive ideologies over free inquiry – has put its reputation in serious jeopardy.”
“Harvard can right these wrongs and restore itself to a campus dedicated to academic excellence and truth-seeking, where all students feel safe on its campus,” she said.
Harvard President Alan Garber addressed the threat to the university’s federal funding in a Monday <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/our-resolve/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">note</a>.
“The government has informed us that they are considering this action because they are concerned that the University has not fulfilled its obligations to curb and combat antisemitic harassment,” Garber wrote.
“Urgent action and deep resolve are needed to address this serious problem that is growing across America and around the world. It is present on our campus. I have experienced antisemitism directly, even while serving as president, and I know how damaging it can be to a student who has come to learn and make friends at a college or university,” the president said.
The task force is composed of the departments of Education and Health and Human Services and the U.S. General Services Administration.
The announcement came after the Trump administration has cut off $400 million in taxpayer funding from Columbia University. Last month, Columbia agreed to make a series of changes to their campus speech policies and practices, though it did not secure a return of the rescinded funding.
Last week, Columbia’s interim president, Katrina Armstrong, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-president-steps-down-amid-turmoil-with-trump-admin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stepped down</a> amid blowback from faculty that the college acceded too much to the Trump administration in the agreement. Claire Shipman, a former CNN correspondent and co-chair of Columbia’s board of trustees, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbias-new-prez-doesnt-appear-to-be-much-better-than-the-last-one" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stepped in</a> as interim president.
The Trump administration cut funds to Columbia University after the federal government said the school failed to protect Jewish students amid chaos and unrest on campus over Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas students protested, vandalized, and took over buildings on Columbia’s campus.

Trump Anti-Semitism Task Force Scrutinizing Billions In Taxpayer Funds To Harvard

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The Harvard School of Public Health suspended its partnership with a Palestinian university whose faculty and students have endorsed and collaborated with Hamas and other terror groups, according to the <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/27/harvard-suspends-birzeit-partnership/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Crimson</a>.
The suspension follows extensive reporting by The Daily Wire into Birzeit’s terrorist ties that led to 27 members of Congress <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawmakers-demand-harvard-cut-ties-with-hamas-collaborator-palestinian-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling for</a> Harvard to “immediately shut down this partnership and condemn Birzeit University.”
Harvard suspended the partnership as part of the Harvard School of Public Health’s investigation into Harvard’s FXB Center, which started last summer, School of Public Health spokeswoman Stephanie Simon told the student paper.
A memorandum of understanding between the FXB Center and Birzeit expired in recent months and Harvard decided not to renew it, according to Simon. While an official partnership will not exist, the FXB center, which collaborates with Birzeit faculty and scholars, will reportedly continue.
In an Q&amp;A with the <a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/03/a-year-into-role-chan-school-dean-focused-on-driving-change-amid-deep-challenges/">Harvard Gazette</a>, Dean Andrea Baccarelli said a &#8220;blue-ribbon panel of experts&#8221; were appointed to conduct the review of the FXB Center to &#8220;rigorously evaluate the FXB Center’s current status and future potential.&#8221; The review is expected to conclude this spring.
The FXB Center <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-to-host-summer-program-at-palestinian-university-dominated-by-hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-hosted</a> the “Palestine Social Medicine Course” with Birzeit University last summer, where students learned about “settler colonialism.” The program was originally supposed to take place on Birzeit’s campus in Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank, until it <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-cancels-program-with-hamas-friendly-university-over-security-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was relocated</a> to Jordan “due to security concerns.” Under the suspension, Harvard will no longer co-sponsor the program this year and Harvard students will not be eligible to participate because of security concerns. Instead the 2025 Social Medicine Course will be sponsored by Birzeit and the World Health Organization.
At the time, Simon told The Daily Wire she was aware of Birzeit’s student body’s association with Hamas, but said it has not affected its program.
“Student government elections at Birzeit typically involve candidates affiliated with each of the major political parties in the region, including Hamas,” she said. “These student government elections are not germane to and have not affected the FXB Center’s work with the scholars and students at Birzeit’s Institute of Community and Public Health.”
Birzeit University <a href="https://archive.ph/eRaU6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called for</a> “glory for the martyrs” after Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, and has a long history of promoting terrorists on its campus. The university has hosted funerals and parades for terrorists on its campus, where several buildings are named after terrorists.
Hanan Ashrawi, chairman of Birzeit University’s board of trustees, denied that Hamas sexually assaulted Israelis on October 7, and has defended Hezbollah and the lynching of Israeli soldiers, according to <a href="https://camera-uk.org/2019/05/14/indy-fails-to-challenge-hanan-ashrawis-claim-shes-always-rejected-violence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAMERA UK</a>.
On its website, Birzeit <a href="https://www.birzeit.edu/en/about/history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boasts</a> that it is a “thorn in the side of the occupation,” and says it is committed to making an impact through “resistance.”
In 2023, the Birzeit student body elected two blocs affiliated with terrorist organizations — Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP )— into the student government. In the election, which had a 77 percent voter turnout, the Hamas-affiliated Islamic bloc won 25 of the 51 seats, while the PFLP picked up six, according to the <a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-744135" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jerusalem Post</a>.
In July, five members of the student council were arrested for attempting to carry out a terror attack on behalf of Hamas. The students were found with an assault rifle and thousands of dollars of cash from Hamas, the Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-university-students-in-west-bank-arrested-for-planning-significant-terror-attack/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Birzeit <a href="https://archive.is/q0BXN" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared a letter</a> from its faculty and employee union last April which praised the “global intifada,” called for an Israel boycott, and refrained from calling the United States by name, instead opting to use “Turtle Island,” a term used by so-called “anti-colonialists” to suggest that the United States exists on stolen Native American land.
Birzeit’s faculty includes notable terrorist sympathizers, including assistant professor Basil Farraj who wrote <a href="https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/45912" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a eulogy</a> for Walid Daqqa, the leader of a group that kidnapped and killed an IDF soldier.
Philosophy professor Abdaljawad Omar appeared at a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rashida-tlaib-faces-calls-to-be-removed-from-congress-after-speaking-at-terrorist-connected-event" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PFLP-linked conference</a> attended by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, where he praised the October 7 attacks for opening “so many doors of political possibility” and said the “promise of liberation it holds would not have manifested in our conference without the capacity to resist.” Omar also denied accusations of rape and criticized the IDF for refusing to allow Israel to be taken over by the “Palestinian military” in <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/how-and-why-israels-disinformation-campaign-is-enabling-its-massacre-in-gaza/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an op-ed</a> shortly after the attack.
“Israel chose not to engage in negotiations with any groups within its borders, leading to substantial collateral damage in numerous hostage situations,” Omar wrote. “The Palestinian military strategy aimed to delay Israel’s retaking of the area around the strip. In contrast, Israel was intent on swiftly reclaiming the territory, seemingly without regard for the safety of its own citizens.”
Several other schools <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-dark-relationship-between-u-s-universities-and-the-anti-american-school-controlled-by-terrorists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have had relationships</a> with Birzeit, including Rutgers University, which affirmed its relationship with Birzeit in May amid student encampment protests. William Paterson University entered into an <a href="https://www.wpunj.edu/provost/international-academic-agreements/Birziet.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreement with</a> the Hamas-run university in 2022 for exchange programs, sharing curricula, and joint degree programs. Other schools, such as MIT, have recently co-hosted conferences, invited Birzeit professors for speaking events, or had student groups visit its campus.
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Harvard University announced this week that it would offer free tuition for any student attending whose family makes less than $200,000 a year starting in the 2025-26 academic year.
Additionally, the institution said that students enrolled whose families have an annual income of $100,000 or less will be offered free housing, food, and health services.
Currently, it costs $56,550 a year to attend the school. Adding housing, food, and health services brings that total to $82,866, per the university.
&#8220;Putting Harvard within financial reach for more individuals widens the array of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives that all of our students encounter, fostering their intellectual and personal growth,&#8221; Harvard University President Alan M. Garber said in a statement. &#8220;By bringing people of outstanding promise together to learn with and from one another, we truly realize the tremendous potential of the University.&#8221;
About 55% of Harvard undergraduates receive financial aid, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Business/harvard-tuition-families-making-200k/story?id=119874241">ABC News</a> noted.
&#8220;We know the most talented students come from different socioeconomic backgrounds and experiences, from every state and around the globe,&#8221; William R. Fitzsimmons, Harvard College’s dean of admissions and financial aid, said in a statement. &#8220;Our financial aid is critical to ensuring that these students know Harvard College is a place where they can be part of a vibrant learning community strengthened by their presence and participation.&#8221;
The new plan means that about 86% of United States families would qualify for financial aid from Harvard if accepted for admission. Most recently, the Ivy League school accepted 3.59% of the 54,000 applicants for the Class of 2028.
Harvard University’s Republican Club has seen an increase in signups recently, saying the group has quadrupled the number of members last year. The club previously had 40 to 50 active members.
“Harvard Republicans are thriving, something that couldn’t happen four years ago,” Harvard Republican Club President Michael Oved <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-republican-club-says-enrollment-is-booming-as-members-proudly-share-beliefs">told</a> The Daily Wire in September. “We no longer hide our Republican views, we embrace them. We wear it on our sleeves, proudly and people see that, and they become encouraged to do the same.”
This update comes as the university has been mired in controversy due to the administration’s and left-wing student groups’ reaction to Hamas’ October 7 brutal attack on Israeli civilians.

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Harvard University has settled two lawsuits alleging the school mishandled anti-Semitism on campus following President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Trump has <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/diversity/religion/2024/12/10/what-trump-has-said-about-antisemitism-and-campus-protests" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatened</a> to withhold federal funding from colleges and universities that allow anti-Israel protesters to spread anti-Semitism on campus. The settlements were announced separately on Tuesday, The Harvard Crimson <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/1/21/harvard-settles-antisemitism-lawsuits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, and include an undisclosed monetary amount and a clarification of Harvard&#8217;s policies about what constitutes anti-Semitism.
The Crimson suggested that the definition of anti-Semitism – from the International Holocaust Remembrance Association (IHRA) – is “controversial” and “classifies certain criticisms of Israel as antisemitic” without providing evidence.
The IHRA’s <a href="https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">definition of anti-Semitism</a> explains that “Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”
The IHRA goes on to explicitly state that “criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.” The organization also provides examples of anti-Semitism, including denial or downplaying of the Holocaust or “holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.”
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The Crimson does note that one of the examples is the claim that the “existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.” The outlet suggested that this definition “could allow Harvard to crack down on pro-Palestine student protesters who have condemned Israel’s war in Gaza and policies toward Palestinians, often in harsh terms.”
Those “harsh terms” included an “apartheid wall” that included a quote from the leader of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-hires-24-7-security-to-protect-anti-israel-apartheid-wall-featuring-quote-from-famous-terrorist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. A sign repeating the Palestinian slogan &#8220;from the river to the sea&#8221; &#8211; a phrase calling for the elimination of Israel &#8211; was also displayed at the Harvard anti-Israel camp.
The settlement also includes a stipulation that Harvard partner with an unnamed university in Israel, in direct defiance of a demand by anti-Israel protesters who demanded the university cut all ties with Israel (but no other countries).
The two settled lawsuits came from a group of six Harvard students and the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education. The student-led <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jewish-students-sue-harvard-for-failing-to-stop-anti-semitism-while-threatening-discipline-for-fatphobia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a>, filed jointly with the group Students Against Antisemitism, accused the university of violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by allowing mobs of anti-Israel protesters to occupy campus buildings and threaten violence against Jewish students, The Daily Wire reported. It also accused administrators and professors of allowing anti-Semitism and dismissing students who objected to it.
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“Harvard, America’s leading university, has become a bastion of rampant anti-Jewish hatred and harassment,” the lawsuit said. “Mobs of pro-Hamas students and faculty have marched by the hundreds through Harvard’s campus, shouting vile antisemitic slogans and calling for death to Jews and Israel.”
The Brandeis Center lawsuit accused Harvard of “deliberately” ignoring anti-Semitism and cited specific examples, including an incident that occurred after the devastating October 7, 2023, attacks against Israel by Palestinian terrorists.
Trump has condemned the treatment of Jews on college campuses across the country.
“What’s going on at the colleges — Columbia, NYU, and others — is a disgrace,” Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jewish-students-sue-harvard-for-failing-to-stop-anti-semitism-while-threatening-discipline-for-fatphobia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters in April 2024. “It’s really on [former President Joe] Biden. He’s got the wrong signal, he’s got the wrong tone, he’s got the wrong words. He doesn’t know who he’s backing. And It’s a mess.”

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From “Queer Time, Queer Space” to “Black Shakespeare,” universities across the United States are offering left-wing courses that range from the radical to the downright strange.
It&#8217;s no surprise that elite colleges and universities have left-wing biases. But rather than offer courses on Marx or critical theory, many institutions are going even further in the spring semester. Academics are bringing increasingly fringe subjects to the classroom, &#8220;queering&#8221; the world of architecture and &#8220;racializing&#8221; science fiction.
Here are some of the most woke classes being offered on college campuses this semester.
Art Films: Queer Time, Queer Space (Brown University)
The Ivy League institution in Providence, Rhode Island is offering students <a href="https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=queer">Art Films: Queer Time, Queer Space</a>, which will encourage “a sustained meditation on cinematic practices that trouble and disrupt normative, reproductive, developmental, and accumulative time.” The description goes into more depth, explaining its methods.
“By situating queer theories of temporality in proximity to time-based art-making, we will engage with and analyze art films, digital media, and performative works that push the boundaries of the aesthetically and politically possible,” it adds.
Spaces of Queer Theory (University of California Berkeley)
Not to be outdone, UC Berkeley is hosting “<a href="https://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2025-spring-arch-139-001-lec-001">Spaces of Queer Theory</a>,” a class that examines architectural practices and their interactions with queer politics. It will delve into “queer necropolitics and the carceral state” as well as “the architectural futurity of queer communities,” all while discussing “queering architecture,” “queer ecologies,” and “spaces of queer consumption.&#8221;
Black Shakespeare; Race, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice (Columbia University)
Called “<a href="https://doc.sis.columbia.edu/#subj/AFEN/BC3817-20251-001/">Black Shakespeare</a>,” the Columbia University course raises the question, “Can performing Shakespeare be an activist endeavor?” It goes further. “Can creators and scholars separate Shakespeare from the apparatus of white supremacy that has been built around his works?” the course description inquires. It even probes, “What are the challenges and obstacles for BIPOC scholars working on Shakespeare in academia?”
Students at Columbia can also <a href="https://doc.sis.columbia.edu/#subj/EESC/GR9810-20251-001/">take</a> “Race, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice,” which seeks to untether science from its “colonial foundations” and encourages students to “decolonize their own research.”
“We begin by examining the colonial foundations of the sciences, with a special focus on the geo- and climate sciences,” the description explains. “The ideological underpinnings of these sciences assume the earth to be an inert object ripe for exploitation; this legacy of European modernity is often at odds with the worldviews of indigenous peoples and their relations with nature.”
AfroFuturism (Vassar College)
“Afrofuturists reconfigure notions of race and identity by appropriating science fiction tropes while speculating potential futures free from any Eurocentric gaze,” reads <a href="https://catalogue.vassar.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=55&amp;coid=379772">the description</a> of the course at the Poughkeepsie, New York college.
“Beginning with Afrofuturist progenitor Sun Ra, we go “black to the future” and closely encounter other Afronauts such as Octavia Butler, Janelle Monáe, Nnedi Okorafor, OutKast, Parliament-Funkadelic, Ishmael Reed, and Fatimah Tuggar, among others.”
The Sexual Life of Colonialism; Race, Gender, and Medicine (Harvard University)
Students at Harvard University are <a href="https://courses.my.harvard.edu/dw_course/fas_crse_cat.pdf">invited</a> to take a course called “Race, Gender, and Medicine” which employs “feminist theory, disability justice movements, critical race theory, queer theory, anti-colonial thought, and trans liberation movements.” One of the focuses of the course, the description explains, is “the development and racialization of transgender medicine.” It also poses the question, “What unique challenges do trans and gender-diverse youth face in seeking medical care as a result of recent transphobic laws and policies?”
Another course at the institution is titled “The Sexual Life of Colonialism” and seeks to “investigate the role of colonialism and neocolonialism in racial imaginations of gender and sexuality.”
Black Feminist and Queer Contemporary Culture (Swarthmore College)
Pennsylvania&#8217;s Swarthmore College will offer a <a href="https://catalog.swarthmore.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=30&amp;coid=100025">course</a> on “Black Feminist and Queer Contemporary Culture,” with a focus on “the works of black queer and trans visual artists and writers.”
“Using the tools of black feminist and queer theory, the class will cover topics and concepts such as Afrofuturism, stereotypes, intersectionality, surveillance, film, performance, abstraction/figuration, photography, poetry, and ungendering,” the description states.
Queer and Trans of Color Critique; Queer and Trans Latino Studies (Northwestern University)
Evanston, Illinois’ Northwestern University joins the ranks of the other institutions with <a href="https://catalogs.northwestern.edu/search/?caturl=%2Fundergraduate&amp;search=queer">classes</a> on race and queer politics. Students can take both “Queer and Trans of Color Critique” and “Queer and Trans Latino Studies,” the latter of which “will explore the construction of gender and sexuality as it intersects with race, class, immigration, and other relationships of power” and focus on “Black feminist, women of color feminist, and queer of color critique writing and activism.”
Queer, Quare, Ku&#8217;er: or Queer of Color Critique (University of Chicago)
The highly-ranked University of Chicago advertises a course titled “Queer, Quare, Ku&#8217;er: or queer of color critique,” which poses the question &#8220;what could queer theory look like if we begin from the premise that its model subject is not white?&#8221;
It also has a number of different <a href="http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&amp;P=queer">courses on queer politics</a>, including “Queer Theory and Queer Practice,” “The Aesthetics of Camp: Queer Style, Queer Sensibility,” and “Queer Theology and Queer of Color Critique.”

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Contributions to Harvard University’s endowment dropped by $151 million – 14% – in fiscal year 2024 following ongoing anti-Israel protests that have turned off several billionaire donors.
The Harvard Crimson <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/10/18/harvard-fundraising-crisis-price-tag/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that total contributions to the endowment fund actually dropped by $193 million – the greatest year-over-year drop in the past decade, but a $42 million increase in current-use gifts propped up the final net total decrease.
The massive loss to fundraising comes after several billionaires said they would stop donating to the Ivy League university because of how it handled anti-Semitism on campus. Hedge fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin, who graduated from Harvard in 1989, <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/31/ken-griffin-pausing-harvard-donations/">announced</a> in January that he would pause donations. A year earlier, he donated $300 million to the school’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Griffin blamed the school’s handling of anti-Semitism for his pause on donations.
“I’d like that to change and I have made that clear to members of the corporate board,” he said at a conference, <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/31/ken-griffin-pausing-harvard-donations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Crimson</a>. “But until Harvard makes it very clear that they’re going to resume their role as educating young American men and women to be leaders, to be problem solvers, to take on difficult issues, I’m not interested in supporting the institution.”
He also called Harvard students “whiny snowflakes” obsessed with “microaggressions” and “DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion].”
“Will America’s elite university get back to their roots of educating American children – young adults – to be the future leaders of our country or are they going to maintain being lost in the wilderness of microaggressions, a DEI agenda that seems to have no real endgame, and just being loss in the wilderness?” he asked.
The Crimson also <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/11/29/donor-backlash-israel-hamas-response/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that university leaders were privately worried about longtime donors pulling back after the university’s response to anti-Israel protests on campus.
Even with the backlash, the university hasn’t appeared to take any steps to stop the anti-Semitism. Just this week, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-gave-students-10-minutes-to-protest-anti-hamas-speaker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Harvard allowed students 10 minutes to protest an anti-Hamas speaker invited to the campus. The Harvard student hosting the speaker was also forced to read a statement informing the audience about the protest.
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Harvard is not the only Ivy League facing funding issues. Columbia University’s annual “Giving Day” donations dropped nearly 30% after the school allowed anti-Israel protests to linger on campus, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-university-giving-day-donations-plunge-nearly-30-following-anti-israel-protests" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> previously.
For the first time, the university suffered a massive drop in donations, after pausing the event in 2023 after the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, the Columbia Spectator <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/10/03/columbia-giving-day-donations-down-significantly-amid-donor-crisis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Since resuming the event, the school has had a nearly 30% drop in donations.
In 2022, Columbia raised $30 million on Giving Day, compared to $21.4 million raised in 2024 – a 28.8% drop. This was the lowest amount raised since 2018.
The number of donations also declined 27.9% this year after rising steadily for the first 10 years of the event, the Columbia Spectator reported.

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