Since his return to the White House last January, Donald Trump accuses the dean of American universities of serving as a pool for ideology “woke“And not to have sufficiently protected his Jewish or Israeli students during demonstrations on the campus for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip.
In retaliation, the Trump government has withdrawn from Harvard just over 2.6 billion dollars in federal subsidies and revoked its Sevis certification, the main system by which foreign students are authorized to study in the United States.
The university challenged these two measures before the local federal court.
In his complaint, Harvard accuses the Trump administration of using federal funds as a “lever” in an attempt to “control” the decision -making of the university.
In parallel, associations of American university professors, notably Harvard, asked another Massachusetts judge on Monday to recognize that the United States government has implemented an “eviction policy based on the ideology” contrary to the first amendment of the Constitution which protects freedom of expression.
For these associations, the arrests of foreign students for their expulsion are intended to muzzle the voices against the Israeli war in Gaza and the defense of the Palestinians, and weaken public debate.
