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by cyberjerkXX 450 days ago
You're misunderstanding what is happening. Harvard is a private institution that takes funding from the federal government. The federal government is reviewing the funding under allegations of anti-Semitism: -In November 2023, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened a Title VI investigation into allegations of antisemitism on the campus. -In January 2024, six students sued the University, alleging that Harvard had become a “bastion of rampant anti-Jewish hatred and harassment.” This was followed by a February 2024 alumni-led lawsuit that claimed Harvard’s “unrestrained” campus antisemitism has caused the university reputational damage. -In July 2024, the Department of Education ended its investigation into allegations of antisemitic harassment at Harvard as a lawsuit filed in federal court contained the same allegations. -In January 2025, Harvard settled two antisemitism lawsuits by agreeing to provide additional protections for Jewish students, including by adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism.
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The IHRA definition of antisemitism has some troubling anti-free speech aspects that the JDA definition responds to. https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/13/antise...