Screengrab from video posted on X by @_anthonypeltier Two staff members from the Israeli embassy in Washington were shot and killed on Wednesday near the Jewish Museum. The shooter, Elias Rodriguez, from Chicago, opened fire on a group of four people.Israeli ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, said the victims were a young couple who […]
The Trump administration decided to cancel $60 million in federal grants to Harvard University, citing the institution’s inadequate response to antisemitic harassment and ethnic discrimination incidents.The health and human services department on Monday said that they are terminating multiple multi-year grant awards over their full duration.“HHS is taking decisive action to uphold civil rights in […]
Harvard University and Donald Trump Harvard University has committed to evaluating its academic programmes and admissions criteria following two internal reports addressing antisemitism and anti-Arab discrimination on campus, prompted by pro-Palestinian demonstrations last spring.The university published these reports on Tuesday while engaged in a significant dispute with the Trump administration regarding campus activism restrictions. The […]
Harvard defies Trump, faces $2.3bn federal funding freeze US President Donald Trump threatened to strip Harvard University of its tax-exempt status, intensifying an ongoing battle between the White House and the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university. The move came after Harvard rejected a list of policy changes demanded by the Trump administration, including shifts in […]
Cornell University (NYT photo) In a sweeping move aimed at enforcing anti-discrimination laws on college campuses, the Trump administration has frozen over $1 billion in federal funding to Cornell University and $790 million to Northwestern University, citing ongoing civil rights investigations. “The money was frozen in connection with several ongoing, credible, and concerning Title VI […]
The Trump administration is preparing to block $510 million in federal contracts and grants to Brown University, as part of a wider campaign to crack down on what it described as relentless anti-semitism on university campuses, as per two White House officials familiar with the plans.Brown is now the fifth American university to face the […]
Columbia University agreed to a series of policy changes after the Trump administration froze $400 million in federal funding over concerns about antisemitism on campus. These measures include a mask ban, new disciplinary protocols, and granting campus police the authority to make arrests.The Ivy League institution, which had become a focal point for violent anti-Israel […]
