Schumer, Schiff, Jewish Democrats blast President Donald Trump over Harvard funding freeze

Five Jewish Democratic Senate members demanded answers from President Donald Trump at the expense of differentiation and integration behind the punishment of Harvard University, the Faculty of Medicine and other group institutions throughout the country under what they called the pretext of anti -Semitism on the campus.

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer from New York and felt Adam Chef from California, Jackie Rosen from Nevada, Brian Chatez from Hawaii and Richard Blumenant from Connecticut, while they said they agreed on the scourge of anti -Semitism over time.

Dear President Trump, we write regarding your administration’s assault on universities, including threats and procedures that have been withholding money or punishing some higher education institutions, in what you claim to be an attempt to eliminate the very real threat to combat supreme in the campus of universities, ”began Thursday.

“We also write as Jewish Senate members who spoke strongly against the high anti -Semitism here in the United States, including on the campus of universities, and who called the university leaders to do more to address anti -Semitism with accountability and work in the wake of the terrible October 7 attack on Hamas on Israel.”

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Al-Khamasi called on Trump’s decisions to freeze Harvard’s financing and focus on other schools, as anti-Semitic behavior and protests abound last year “broad and external attacks”-adding that they were “troubled and disturbing” through his decisions.

The legislators said that Trump’s actions “seem to go beyond combating anti -Semitism” and within the scope of “using what is a real crisis as an excuse to attack people and institutions who do not agree with you.”

Specifying Harvard University specifically, Senators said about the threat to cancel the tax exemption status at Evy Locky College and the humiliating faculty members as “wake up, the radical left -wing majestic” exceeded constructive efforts to support Jewish students.

“They seem to aim widely to change the way the university operates, and huge penalties are compatible with ways that are not completely related to anti -Semitism, and instead we fear that they aim to undermine or even destroy these vital institutions while hiding behind allegations of hostility as an exchange procedure.”

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They offered the olive branch to seek to work with the Republicans to combat anti -Semitism, but they repeated their beliefs that Trump’s initiatives are “simply a way to end” so that the covered by his ideological opposition.

They called on the president to respond on Wednesday of next week with data and details about the reason for targeting specific colleges to freeze federal financing, and what was the calculation and complementarity account to do so.

“In the case of Harvard University in particular, what are the specific charges that the administration has taken against Harvard regarding anti -Semitism? Please describe your fees with specific details, including naming specific cases and why do you think that Harvard’s steps have already taken to enhance the response to anti -Semitism are insufficient.”

They also said that Trump targeted Harvard University Medical College, praising his research on cancer in questioning this particular decision.

“What is your legal justification … when almost every legal researcher ruled that you have no basis to do so?” And they saved.

Separately, Chef said during last year’s discussion that he also received many anti -Semitic attacks, especially online.

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“I take this issue very personally,” he said. “What is happening on the campus of universities, I think, terrifying.”

In February, Rosen joined Senator Tim Scott, RS.

“The anti -Semitism is a rise throughout the country, especially on the campus of universities, and the congress bears the responsibility for doing everything in his power to respond to this hatred,” Rosen said in a statement.

Shatz, who is seen as a leading possible successor to the Senate minority, a lash of Dick Dorbin, De E, as a leader of Democrats No. 2, Tweet in 2023 that he opposes anti -Semitism and Islamic fear.

“The criticism of Israel is not anti -Semitism. The desire to disrupt Hamas is not Islamophobia. The desire to protect civilians does not,” he wrote.

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Earlier this year, Shomer published the book “Ent of Semitism in America: Warning”, about his private life experiences.

In a tweet about the message, Blumenthal called anti -Semitism “a real and terrible threat in universities – and it should be done – but it should not be exploited as an excuse to target universities and oppose silence.”

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