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The Guardian - US
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Marina Dunbar

Trump administration reportedly decides Harvard violated civil rights

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Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, last week. Photograph: Kenneth Martin/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

The Trump administration has concluded that Harvard University violated federal civil rights law in its handling of Jewish and Israeli students, and it threatened the school with a potential “loss of all federal financial resources” as a result, according to the Wall Street Journal.

In a Monday letter addressed to the Harvard president, Alan Garber, administration attorneys stated that the university was aware Jewish and Israeli students felt unsafe on campus but failed to take meaningful action. The letter, obtained by the Journal, accused Harvard of “deliberate indifference” toward those concerns.

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