Los abogados de Harvard y los de la Administración de Donald Trump se han encontrado este lunes por primera vez desde que empezó la ofensiva de la Casa Blanca contra las universidades. Con su plante ante las exigencias de Washington, que ha congelado más de 2.600 millones en subvenciones y contratos por la respuesta de la institución al supuesto antisemitismo en su campus, Harvard, la universidad más antigua y rica del país, se ha convertido en símbolo de la resistencia en una guerra que va más allá de las proclamas propalestinas proferidas en la gran movilización estudiantil contra la guerra de Gaza que recorrió EE UU en la primavera de 2024, y que amenaza con yugular la libertad de expresión e incluso la de cátedra.
00:38And make no mistake, these attacks are blatantly unconstitutional.
00:42The government wants to tell professors what we can and cannot teach.
00:48The government wants to tell professors who we can and cannot teach.
00:54The government wants to tell students what they can and cannot learn.
00:58What questions they can and cannot ask.
01:01Who they can and cannot aspire to be.
01:05As Harvard faculty, it is our moral and pedagogical duty to our students and to our fields of scholarly expertise
01:15to refuse this blatantly unlawful thought policing.
01:19Clearly, the government has now taken a position that is completely contrary to what it has taken throughout this process.
01:25Clearly, the government has now taken a position that is completely contrary to what it has taken throughout this process.
01:35And their position is this, which is that they can cancel any contract, any funding that they want to, based on changing agency priorities, without regard for the Constitution or for any of the procedures under federal statutes.
01:52And so they're basically now, while they started this process by saying that they cared about anti-Semitism and wanted to address that under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act,
02:12they are now saying that this is not about Title VI, that it is, in fact, just a change in agency priorities and we've never seen anything like this in the history of Title VI and federal civil rights enforcement of this kind of termination of federal funding without going through any of the kind of process that one would go through.
