{"id":2205431,"date":"2024-03-25T05:18:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T09:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvards-federal-funds-on-chopping-block-for-obstructing-congressional-anti-semitism-probe-house-chair-says\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T05:19:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T09:19:50","slug":"harvards-federal-funds-on-chopping-block-for-obstructing-congressional-anti-semitism-probe-house-chair-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvards-federal-funds-on-chopping-block-for-obstructing-congressional-anti-semitism-probe-house-chair-says\/","title":{"rendered":"House Chair accuses Harvard of hindering Congressional anti-Semitism probe, threatens to cut federal funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fharvards-federal-funds-on-chopping-block-for-obstructing-congressional-anti-semitism-probe-house-chair-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2205431&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Harvard&#8217;s \u2064Federal Funding\u2064 at Risk Amid \u200cAnti-Semitism Probe<\/h2>\n<p>Harvard University is facing a critical moment as \u2062it jeopardizes over half a billion dollars in federal funding by obstructing a congressional investigation into campus-wide anti-Semitism. Rep. Virginia Foxx\u200c (R., N.C.),\u2062 head of the House Committee on Education\u2062 and the Workforce, \u200dis leading the charge in scrutinizing Harvard and \u2063other prestigious American universities for their \u200cinability to address the\u200c surge of \u200banti-Jewish incidents on campus.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>&#8220;Making Students Safe Should Be the Priority,&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;The ultimate thing is obviously, trying to hold back some\u2062 of \u200ctheir money \u2063if they&#8217;re just not going to make the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/school-bus-driver-faces-charges-leave-after-allegedly-slapping-10-year-old-girl-for-improperly-wearing-mask\/\" title=\"School Bus Driver Faces Charges Leave After Allegedly Slapping 10-Year-Old Girl For Improperly Wearing Mask\">students safe<\/a>,&#8221; Foxx\u200b emphasized, hinting at the severe consequences Harvard could face due to its non-compliance with the investigation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this year, Foxx&#8217;s committee issued a subpoena to Harvard after the university delayed producing essential documents regarding its management of widespread anti-Semitism following a significant attack\u200c on \u2062Israel. Despite repeated requests, Harvard has continuously impeded the probe by providing heavily redacted documents, prompting Foxx to describe the situation as &#8220;really shameful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Foxx\u2062 raised\u200b concerns \u2062about Harvard&#8217;s motivations, questioning whether it&#8217;s arrogance, ineptness, or indifference guiding the university&#8217;s actions amidst the ongoing\u200b investigation. She stressed that Harvard cannot expect the inquiry to \u2063fade away and must address the issues head-on.<\/p>\n<p>This recent development,\u2064 shared in an interview with the \u2062 <em>Free Beacon<\/em>, signals the\u200b potential repercussions that Harvard\u200b and similar institutions could face, including the loss of federal funding if they\u200c fail to combat anti-Semitism effectively.<\/p>\n<p>The committee&#8217;s actions have garnered support from\u200d Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.) and other House Republicans, who advocate\u200d for a stringent approach towards universities neglecting to curb anti-Semitic sentiments on their campuses.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>New Legislation on the Horizon<\/h3>\n<p>Foxx also hinted at potential legislation that would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/will-mandatory-covid-theater-ever-end-for-college-students-2\/\" title=\"Will Mandatory Covid Theater Ever End For College Students?\">compel universities<\/a> to implement Title\u2063 VI of the Civil Rights Act more \u2063rigorously,\u2062 particularly focusing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-state-theatre-performance-excluded-white-students-school-claims-they-could-have-participated\/\" title=\"Arizona State Theatre Performance Excluded White Students, School Claims They Could Have Participated\">preventing discrimination based<\/a> on race and religion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Harvard, as\u200b well as other institutions like MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, have come under scrutiny for their alleged\u200c violations of \u200cTitle VI, allowing\u2062 anti-Israel events that jeopardize Jewish students&#8217; safety.<\/p>\n<p>Amidst these challenges,\u200d Foxx remains unwavering \u200din her commitment\u2062 to addressing anti-Semitism on college campuses and ensuring that universities uphold the rights of all students, regardless of \u2062their background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard University faces potential loss of over $500 million in federal funds for impeding a congressional inquiry into campus anti-Semitism. 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Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.), leading the investigation through the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, scrutinizes Harvard among other prominent U.S. institutions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":2205432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/supreme-court-rules-affirmative-action-is-unconstitutional-in-landmark-e1697138132347.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2205431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/supreme-court-rules-affirmative-action-is-unconstitutional-in-landmark-e1697138132347.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}