The U.S. government has reportedly filed a lawsuit against Harvard University, accusing the Ivy League school of failing to adequately protect Jewish and Israeli students on campus, according to court documents filed Friday.
The legal action marks a major escalation as the Trump administration seeks to recover billions of dollars in taxpayer funds tied to the university.
Reuters said that according to the lawsuit, Harvard University was deliberately indifferent to hostilities on its campus and deliberately refused to enforce campus rules when the victims were Jewish or Israeli.
according to a report wall street journalThe lawsuit, filed Friday in federal district court in Massachusetts, seeks to force the university to comply with civil rights laws while seeking to recover millions in taxpayer funds Harvard allegedly received for violating those rules.
The Wall Street Journal cited the lawsuit as saying that the document further stated that Harvard University is currently expected to receive more than $2.6 billion in grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies.
