CNN Host Can’t Figure Out Why Antisemitic Harassment Cost Harvard Federal Grants

Former Trump administration official Marc Short had to explain to “CNN NewsNight” host Abby Phillip Tuesday night why allowing antisemitic harassment led to Harvard losing federal grants.

Secretary of 🎓Education Linda McMahon announced on May 6 that Harvard would not receive future grants, saying the Ivy League university displayed a “systemic pattern of violating federal law” over its failure to address the antisemitic harassment and its efforts to continue using race as a factor for admissions. Phillip questioned what research grants had to do with “how students treat each other.”

“You mentioned Hillsdale College just as an example. It’s more of a right-leaning college. The reason that Hillsdale College can be like, ‘We can teach whatever we want,’” Phillip said. “If they want to teach creationism, no one’s, I guess, going to stop them, although who knows what might happen in a Democratic administration. But they are also not doing the kind of research work that these large research institutions are doing that are in the public good. So, I mean, do you see the distinction here between those two things?”

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“I just said there are hundreds of public institutions who would gladly accept those research dollars and who are not hostile to Jewish students the way Harvard has been,” Short responded.

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