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White House Gives Update On 'Behind Closed Doors' Talks With Harvard
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In a press briefing on Monday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shared details about the Trump Administration's talks with Harvard University.
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and our American workers here at home.
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And on Harvard's online, the administration today formally accused Harvard of violating civil rights laws
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by not doing enough to fight anti-Semitism.
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We know that the president has talked to us before about Harvard potentially having a deal with administration in the coming days.
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Do you have an updated timeline for that? How is the negotiations going?
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And is more pressure needed for Harvard to take fighting anti-Semitism seriously?
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Well, there was quite a direct letter that was sent to Harvard this morning, as you know.
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The negotiations are taking place behind closed doors, so I won't comment on that.
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But what I will share with all of you, for those who haven't seen it, is the context of this letter,
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because I think it's very important.
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And this comes from the Department of Health and Human Services,
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which concluded after a thorough investigation that Harvard University is in a violent violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act,
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which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin.
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And if you read some of the content of the investigation and what they found,
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the majority of Jewish students reportedly experienced negative bias or discrimination on their campus,
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while a quarter of Jewish students at Harvard felt physically unsafe.
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Jewish and Israeli students were assaulted and spit on.
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They had their kippahs for fear of being harassed and concealed their Jewish identity from classmates
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for fear of ostracization.
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Images were widely circulated amongst the Harvard community that trafficked in obvious anti-Semitic tropes,
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including one that showed a dollar sign inside of a Star of David,
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and the campus was vandalized with anti-Semitic stickers,
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including one that showed the Israeli flag with a swastika.
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The Harvard campus was wracked by demonstrations, as you all know,
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violent protests that violated the university's rules of conduct.
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The demonstrations called for genocide and murder,
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denied Jewish and Israeli students access to campus spaces.
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These are all facts that Harvard cannot dispute,
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and that's why the administration has found them in violation of Title VI
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and has threatened to withhold their federal funding,
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because if you break federal law, you should not be receiving federal tax dollars.
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And so I rest my case on Harvard.
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