Alleged anti-Semitism could be expensive for Harvard

 Newsmax:

Harvard University is willing to meet the Trump administration's demand to shell out up to $500 million to resolve its ongoing dispute, a sum more than twice as much as Columbia University paid last week, The New York Times reported Monday.

Columbia agreed to pay $221 million to resolve its dispute with the Trump administration, with $200 million paid to the Treasury until the White House decides how to spend it, according to the report.

Harvard, however, is balking at paying hundreds of millions directly to the federal government, according to the report. Talks are ongoing between the Trump administration and the Ivy League school.

President Donald Trump has demanded that Harvard pay more than Columbia over on-campus antisemitism that he has assailed the university for allowing to persist for more than a year-and-half, its failure to protect Jewish students, and its ongoing diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

"The Trump administration's proposition is simple and commonsense: Don't allow antisemitism and DEI to run your campus, don't break the law, and protect the civil liberties of all students," White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said in a statement last week.

Among the earliest actions the administration took against Harvard was the cancellation of hundreds of grants awarded to researchers on the grounds that the school failed to do enough to address harassment of Jewish students on its campus.
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The Trump administration's position is the correct one.   It has been a few decades since I was at the University of Texas, but I had several Jewish friends and thought they were smart and added to the campus experience.

 Students should be admitted on merit and not on ethnicity.  The Trump administration is imposing a fine on the schools that discriminate.  If they don't want to pay, they should quit discriminating.