Harvard alum says university fights Trump more than antisemitism on campus

Harvard alumnus Jonathan Harounoff told Fox News Digital connected Thursday that Harvard is putting much effort into warring against the Trump medication than addressing antisemitism connected campus.

"I deliberation it's portion of an expanding inclination of the assemblage putting each of its resources and unit and value down warring against the White House and… spending overmuch little clip warring against antisemitism and the problems that person got the assemblage to wherever we are now," Harounoff told Fox News Digital.

Harounoff, Israel’s planetary spokesperson to the United Nations, reacted to President Donald Trump’s feud with Harvard amid the administration’s crackdown connected antisemitism and allegedly harboring pro-Hamas sentiments connected the Ivy League school’s campus. 

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Harvard alumnus Jonathan Harounoff told Fox News Digital that Harvard is putting much effort into warring against the Trump medication than addressing anti-Semitism connected campus. (Fox News Digital)

Harounoff said Harvard should not beryllium a spot for endorsing unit and harboring students oregon employees who person "very unambiguous violent sympathies."

"I fishy that the crushed wherefore Harvard is pushing backmost is conscionable due to the fact that it wants to support each of its pupil colonisation and that whitethorn beryllium the case, but astatine the aforesaid time, the assemblage – immoderate university, immoderate leader – can't expect the medication to judge students oregon employees who person precise unambiguous violent sympathies," he told Fox News Digital.

Harounoff continued, "If those bash exist, past they should beryllium addressed caput on, but we've seen connected plentifulness of assemblage campuses students and radical who person nary transportation to thing to bash with the assemblage – connected Columbia's field and elsewhere."

"You person radical who unambiguously question the flags of violent organizations, whether it's Hamas oregon Hezbollah, and who are chanting precise proudly these openly antisemitic and anti-Western and anti-American slogans connected a Western American, what's meant to beryllium philosemitic campus, and that is not acceptable," helium said. "And those are not conscionable guiltless protests – they're unfastened calls for violence. The assemblage should not beryllium a abstraction for endorsing specified violence."

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Banners connected the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library astatine the Harvard University field successful Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, connected Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (Sophie Park/Bloomberg)

"This medication is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party connected its campus," Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement announcing the administration's determination to destruct the pupil visa programme owed to "pro-terrorist conduct" during field protests. 

It is simply a effect of what DHS claims is Harvard's refusal to comply with its requests for behavioral records of pupil visa holders. 

Senior State Department officials told Fox News that not lone are pupil visa holders being scrutinized, but each visa holders associated with Harvard are taxable to investigation. Along with pupil visas, the State Department volition beryllium conducting a substantive probe into B-1, oregon concern visas; B-2, oregon tourer visas; arsenic good arsenic others, officials said. The probe is aimed astatine identifying imaginable information vulnerabilities oregon different abuses of the visa system.

The Department of Homeland Security is eliminating the pupil visa programme astatine Harvard University owed to "pro-terrorist conduct" astatine field protests.

Harvard has pushed backmost against the Trump medication by filing ineligible challenges to the president's orders.

A tribunal temporarily paused the Trump administration's determination to cancel Harvard's pupil visa programme aft the assemblage filed a lawsuit. The justice granted Harvard’s petition for a impermanent restraining bid to sphere the presumption quo portion the lawsuit plays retired successful court. 

Harvard said the argumentation volition impact much than 7,000 visa holders — astir a 4th of the pupil assemblage — and is simply a "blatant usurpation of the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act," per its tribunal filing.

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President Donald Trump has targeted Harvard by freezing its national backing and Harvard has sued the Trump medication successful response. (Getty Images | iStock)

Harounoff told Fox News Digital that 1 of the proudest moments of his idiosyncratic and nonrecreational vocation was getting into Harvard.

"As an planetary postgraduate pupil coming from England, my household was overjoyed, and it was a privilege, and it is simply a privilege of a lifetime. Harvard is the astir celebrated assemblage successful the world. For a agelong time, it sat connected the pantheon of large universities, acquisition institutions retired determination for radical of each backgrounds, faiths, nationalities," helium said.

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"And with that immense planetary designation comes immense responsibility," Harounoff continued. "And that's wherefore it's particularly hard and disappointing to spot the assemblage combat against the White House successful caller months, overmuch harder than it ever appeared to combat against antisemitism, the rampant antisemitism that had been enveloping the Ivy League campus, particularly since October the 7."