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April 28, 2025

Withholding Funds Won’t Be Enough to End Anti-Semitism at Harvard

At the forefront of the war against the Jews.

While the Trump administration has frozen over $2 billion in federal aid to Harvard, and is now threatening to revoke the school’s tax-exempt status, Ruth R. Wisse is skeptical that much will change. Wisse, who taught at Harvard for over two decades, notes that on October 12, 2023, the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine declared that it sees itself as “PART of this movement, not in solidarity with this movement”—the movement in question being Hamas. Wisse looks to the roots of the problem:

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