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The order does not appear to carve out exceptions for Israeli or other international Jewish students. Jewish leaders at Harvard, including the director of the school’s Hillel, believe such
President Donald Trump in a social media post suggested taking $3 billion in frozen grant money to Harvard and and give it to trade schools.
The contract review is the latest salvo in Trump’s war with the Ivy League school, as the White House alleges antisemitism and race discrimination.
In the lawsuit filed early Friday in federal court in Boston, the Ivy League school called out the government’s ban as a violation of the Constitution and warned that it would have an “immediate and devastating effect for Harvard and more than 7,000 visa holders.”
Some of Harvard’s sports teams would be virtually wiped out by a Trump administration decision that would make the Ivy League school ineligible for international student visas.