Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz appeared on Fox Business Tuesday to urge President Donald Trump to use federal leverage to defund specific programs he says promote antisemitism, extremist ideology and hostility toward American values.
The Trump administration plans to terminate all remaining federal contracts with Harvard University. Responding to concerns about Harvard’s sprawling $53 billion endowment and its alleged tolerance of antisemitic incidents on campus, Dershowitz said on “The Evening Edit” that he was backing calls to reexamine federal funding to elite universities.
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“I’m praising President Trump for starting at least a dialogue about how to deal with these issues,” Dershowitz told host Elizabeth MacDonald. “As usual, when you have a dialogue, it may start by going a little bit too far. But I think that what we need to do is have targeted defunding of all, for example, the Divinity School and the Public Health School should be completely defunded. The Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard, which is a cesspool of antisemitism, should be defunded.”
Dershowitz also called for immigration restrictions on foreign students who publicly espouse anti-American or anti-Christian views.
“Any student who has made anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-Christian statements should not be allowed into the country,” Dershowitz said. “There’s no first amendment right to come into the country and attack your host nation. So it’s a good beginning, but there’s a lot of work to still be done.”
Harvard rejected a proposed agreement from the Trump administration, costing the university billions in federal grant money. A federal judge, who previously backed Harvard’s race-based admissions policy, quickly blocked the administration’s latest attempt to bar the school from enrolling foreign students.
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