Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to withdraw from Harvard his important tax advantages, the day after the refusal of the very prestigious American university to comply with his requirements.
This more attack on a university institution comes after the decision of his government’s decision to withdraw from Harvard $ 2.2 billion from the US dollars from multi -year multi -year subsidies.
“Perhaps Harvard should lose its tax exemption and be imposed as a political entity, if it continues to defend its political, ideological” madness “, inspired by / supporting terrorism,” wrote the American president on his Truth Social network.
The private university installed near Boston, with a huge heritage of more than $ 50 billion US dollars, benefits from an exemption from the federal tax administration as well as the State of Massachusetts.
Harvard, like other American universities, has been the scene of a student mobilization against the war waged by Israel in Gaza, and has been targeted by the White House since the return to power of Donald Trump.
The Republican accuses Harvard and these other institutions of letting anti -Semitism prosper on their campuses, and his government asked them to set up a whole series of measures – including an “audit” of the opinions of the students and the teaching staff -, failing which the federal state would cut the tap with subsidies.
Harvard, unlike Columbia University in New York, refused to comply with his requirements.
In a letter addressed to students and teachers, the president of the university, Alan Garber, assured Monday that Harvard would not abandon “his independence or his rights guaranteed by the Constitution”.
