In Harvard, two reports published by the University report an anti -Semitic and anti -Muslim climate on campus

Two distinct reports on Harvard published on Tuesday April 29 by the University noted an anti -Semitic and anti -Muslim climate on the prestigious American university campus, in the viewfinder of Donald Trump. The two reports urge the institution to act to remedy it.

“Harvard cannot – and is not going – tolerating intolerance. We will continue to protect all members of our community and preserve them from harassment ”engages, in a letter accompanying the two reports, the president of Harvard, Alan Garber. At the initiative of the two surveys, he promised to “Supervise the implementation of recommendations” recommended.

These two reports of several hundred pages, built in particular from questionnaires and hundreds of testimonies of students and supervisors conducted since January 2024, are made at a time when the university established near Boston (Massachusetts) has attracted the wrath of Donald Trump. The American president recently portrayed him in “Extreme left anti -Semitic institution”,, “Progressive mess” And “Threat to democracy”.

Harvard, like other renowned American universities, Columbia in particular, is accused by the Republican president of having left anti -Semitism prospering on his campus during the student movements against the war in Gaza led by Israel after the attack of Hamas on October 7, 2023.

A first working group on anti-Semitism and anti-Israel positions, composed mainly of members of the teaching staff but also of students, has established that the two phenomena “Have been fed, practiced and tolerated, not only at Harvard, but also more broadly in the academic world”. The report urges the multi -room university to “Become a leader in the fight against anti-Semitism and anti-Israel positions”.

“A feeling deeply rooted in fear”

Another distinct working group, devoted to anti-muslim, anti-arab and anti-Palestinian positions, concluded that “A feeling deeply rooted for fear among students, teachers and staff”. Those questioned describe “A feeling of precariousness, abandonment, threat and isolation, as well as a climate of omnipresent intolerance”write its authors.

Harvard, the oldest university in the United States and one of the best classified in the world, has distinguished itself by being the first to attack the Trump administration against a freeze of more than $ 2 billion in federal subsidies, decided after the famous institution refused to comply with a series of president’s requirements.

Donald Trump, who criticizes universities for being progressive challenges of protest, wants to have a right of way on students to admission students, teacher hiring or programs.

The accusation of anti -Semitism is frequently used by its administration to justify its measures against higher education establishments, as well as against certain foreign students linked to the demonstrations against the war in Gaza.