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Trump administration launches further probes into Harvard University

The US Department of Justice escalated legal action against Harvard on Friday, suing the Ivy League school for billions of dollars due to an alleged failure to protect Jewish and Israeli students.

The Harvard University Coat of arms (Ve Ri Tas) is displayed on the front of the Harvard Business School building on October 25, 2025 in Boston, Massachusetts.
A student stands and whistles while holding his cap with the words 'End The Occupation' during the 373rd Commencement Exercises at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, May 23, 2024.

US sues Harvard over treatment of Jewish, Israeli students, seeks billions of dollars

Harvard University's "Veritas" shield is seen on a gate on Feb. 17, 2024.

Former US treasury secretary to resign from Harvard over Epstein ties

US President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, US, February 13, 2026.

As Qatar tops foreign funding, Trump admin. ramps up probe of ‘malign’ influence at US universities


Trump administration halts scheduling of new student visa appointments

Increased deportations and the revocation of student visas are due to the Trump administration's hardline immigration agenda.

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the White House.

Trump considering re-directing $3 billion in grants from Harvard to trade schools

His comments come less than a week after his administration blocked Ivy League school from enrolling foreign students.

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump speaks to reporters at the White House.

Two Harvard students who assaulted Jewish peer receive honors, $65,000 fellowship

In October 2023, Ibrahim Bharmal and Elom Tettey-Tamaklo surrounded a Jewish student named Yoav Segev and covered him with keffiyehs while shouting “Shame! Shame! Shame!”

Ibrahim Bharmal and Elom Tettey-Tamaklo surrounded a Jewish student named Yoav Segev and covered him with keffiyehs while shouting “Shame! Shame! Shame!” as he tried to free himself and said "don't touch me." October 2023.

Harvard Chabad blasts students' yearbook featuring 'Holocaust-like denial'

"It must be fake history that the genocidal attack on the Jewish people took place, leading to the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust," Harvard Chabad posted.

 Page 38 of the Harvard yearbook under the 'Special Events' sections with a picture of a campus statue surrounded by anti-Israel protest paraphernalia..

Trump official: US to crackdown on university antisemitism after Washington attack

Leo Terrell confirmed the Trump administration would launch lawsuits against universities failing to tackle campus antisemitism.

Leo James Terrell speaks during a reception honouring Black History Month, hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 20, 2025.

Harvard foreign enrolment freeze revoked by court as university sues US administration

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered the department to terminate Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification.

 Demonstrators rally on Cambridge Common calling on Harvard leadership to resist interference at the university by the federal government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US. April 12, 2025.

US terminates $60 million in Harvard grants over alleged antisemitism

The US Department of Health and Human Services explained that the Ivy League institution failed to address antisemitic harassment and ethnic discrimination on campus.

 Demonstrators take part in an "Emergency Rally: Stand with Palestinians Under Siege in Gaza," amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., October 14, 2023.

Jewish panelists push back as billionaire Bill Ackman defends Trump’s feud with Harvard

Ackman appeared in the last panel of the day, speaking to a crowd that filled all 250 seats in the center’s auditorium.

 Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, right, speaks on a panel with Liberties editor Leon Wieseltier and Emory University professor Deborah Lipstadt at "The End of an Era: Jews and Elite Universities," a symposium at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan, May 18, 2025.

US Sen. Scott: Qatar cannot continue supporting Hamas if it wants to be American partner

Scott also emphasized that he finds Qatari influence on US campuses to be despicable. Qatar "can't continue to support Hamas."

Florida Sen. Rick Scott speaks at The Jerusalem Post's Annual Conference in New York, US, May 19, 2025'

Harvard settles Jewish student's lawsuit over alleged antisemitism

The lawsuits were brought by Students Against Antisemitism, and by Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education and the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.

 AN AERIAL BANNER reading ‘Harvard hates Jews’ flies over the campus at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, last year. Zionist students in the Diaspora today demonstrate a courage Israelis will never need, the writer asserts.