The Trump administration threatens to join Harvard University, the state of tax exemption

The US Department of Internal Security (DHS) said that Harvard University will lose its ability to register foreign students if it does not meet demands from the Trump administration to exchange information about some visa owners, which represents the government’s escalation against the educational institution.

On Wednesday, Internal Security Minister Christie Naim announced the termination of two DHS grants, which total more than $ 2.7 million to Harvard University.

Nayem said that she wrote a letter to Harvard asking for records about what she calls “illegal and violent activities” for foreign students visa holders in Harvard by April 30.

“If Harvard University is unable to verify its compliance with its reports requirements, the university will lose the concession of foreign students,” Nayyim said in a statement.

A Harvard University spokesman said that the university was familiar with the speech of Naim, “regarding the cancellation of scholarships and the audit of foreign student visas.”

The spokesperson said that the university stood, along with its statement earlier this week, “not to hand over its independence or give up its constitutional rights,” while saying that it would comply with the law.

The conflict over the protest activity

The administration of US President Donald Trump threatened universities with federal financing discounts for the pro -Palestinians against the Palestinian campus against the destroyed military attack on Israel on Gaza after a deadly attack from October 2023 by the Palestinian Hamas militants.

Trump plays the demonstrators as the threats of anti -Semitic and sympathetic foreign policy with Hamas. The demonstrators, including some Jewish groups, say that the Trump administration mixed a mistake in calling for Palestinian rights and criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza with the support of extremism and anti -Semitism.

The Trump administration is also trying to deport some foreign demonstrators and canceled hundreds of visas throughout the country.

Harvard has already said that she worked to fight anti -Semitism and other bias in her university campus while preserving academic freedoms and the right to protest.

The Trump administration said at the end of last month that it had been declining $ 9 billion of federal contracts and scholarships to Harvard University and later called for restrictions – including banning the mask, removing diversity, fairness and integration programs – in place to continue receiving federal funds.

On Monday, Harvard University rejected many demands that he said would abandon control of the government. Then the Trump administration He said that he freezes $ 2.3 billion in financing.

On Tuesday, Trump also threatened Harvard of his tax exact position. CNN reported on Wednesday that the US Internal Revenue Department was planning to cancel the tax exemption at Harvard University and that it was expected to be a final decision soon.

Harvard said that there is no legal basis to cancel his tax -exempt status, saying that such a procedure will be unprecedented, and will reduce its financial assistance to students and will give up some critical medical research programs.

Researchers feel the picker

Since the end of World War II, the government has defined the strategic areas to research public, military, or other areas. Then the researchers respond through a project proposal, which may receive less than 10 percent of the 10 percent of the 10 percent federal financing.

For decades, universities have provided infrastructure and management for these joint projects. Researchers are often independent of colleges, with lack of duties or ties with the policy of students that sparked universities with the federal government.

Harvard scientist told Dr. Donald Incper, who works where medicine and engineering meet Reuters, that he had seen two government research contracts worth more than $ 20 million that stopped since the Trump administration announced the freezing of $ 2.3 billion.

According to Ingber, one of them focused on evaluating and developing medicines to combat radioactive damage in humans. The work can be the basis for drugs to help cancer patients overcome the side effects of radiotherapy, and can be used to protect soldiers and civilians alike in the case of nuclear war or during the explosion of nuclear plants.

Ingper also said that he knew the applicants after DOC who are now rejecting research positions in the United States that they accepted that they were afraid to live in the United States as foreigners. They resort to China or Europe to carry out their business.

“We were the magnet for the best young scientists all over the world coming and continuing innovation,” Ingir said.

White House spokesman Kush Disai said that the freezing of financing at Harvard University and Colombia said, “One thing and only one thing: treatment of anti -Semitism.”

Disai said: “The hostile demonstrators who suffer from violence and control over the entire campus buildings are not just a raw offer of intolerance against Jewish Americans, but it completely bothering us with the intellectual investigation and research that aims to support federal funding for colleges.”

Human rights defenders raised freedom of expression and academic freedom over the campaign by the government.

The Trump administration has also frozen or canceled some funding to universities such as Colombia, Brenston, Berion, Cornell, and North West.