ハーバード大に「反ユダヤ主義」で資金停止警告 トランプ氏

【ニューヨークＡＦＰ＝時事】米国のドナルド・トランプ政権は３月３１日、ハーバード大学に提供している９０億ドル（約１兆３５００億円）規模の連邦資金について、キャンパス内での反ユダヤ主義疑惑を受けて見直すと発表した。（写真は資料写真）
　ハーバード大同様、親パレスチナ派の学生による激しい抗議活動が行われているコロンビア大学に対しても、先に大規模な資削減が行われている。
　トランプ米大統領は、パレスチナ自治区ガザ地区のイスラム組織ハマスとイスラエルの紛争に触発された激しい抗議行動が起きた名門大学を標的に、連邦資金を剥奪し、さらに移民局に対し、グリーンカード（永住権）所持者を含めデモに参加した外国人学生を国外退去させるよう指示している。
　一般調達局は、ハーバード大学と政府の間で結ばれている２億５５６０万ドル（約３８０憶円）相当の契約、および８７億ドル（約１兆３０００億円）に上る複数年にわたる助成金の契約について調査するとしている。
　トランプ政権の動きは報復的で、言論の自由に萎縮効果をもたらすとの批判が上がる一方、大学に秩序を取り戻し、ユダヤ人学生の安全を守るために必要な措置だと支持する声も上がっている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2025/04/01-17:19）

The US government will review $9 billion of funding for Harvard University over alleged anti-Semitism on campus, authorities said Monday, after it cut millions from Columbia University, which has also seen fierce pro-Palestinian student protests.
President Donald Trump has aggressively targeted prestigious universities that saw bitter protests sparked by Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza, stripping their federal funds and directing immigration officers to deport foreign student demonstrators, including those with green cards.
Officials would look at $255.6 million in contracts between Harvard and the government, as well as $8.7 billion in multi-year grant commitments to the prestigious Ivy League institution, the General Services Administration said in a statement.
Critics argue that the Trump administration's campaign is retributive and will have a chilling effect on free speech, while its supporters insist it is necessary to restore order to campuses and to protect Jewish students.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon said Harvard's failure to protect students on campus from anti-Semitic discrimination -- all while promoting divisive ideologies over free inquiry -- has put its reputation in serious jeopardy.
Harvard can right these wrongs and restore itself to a campus dedicated to academic excellence and truth-seeking, where all students feel safe on its campus, she added.
In a statement, Harvard president Alan Garner said: If this funding is stopped, it will halt life-saving research and imperil important scientific research and innovation.
The government has informed us that they are considering this action because they are concerned that the University has not fulfilled its obligations to curb and combat antisemitic harassment.
Garner objected to this characterization, saying the university strengthened our rules and our approach to disciplining those who violate them over the past 15 months as a means of addressing anti-Semitism on campus.
Trump has also targeted New York's Columbia University, initially putting $400 million of funding under review, detaining for deportation a graduate student linked to the protests, and seeking to arrest others.
Columbia then announced a package of concessions to the government around defining anti-Semitism, policing protests and oversight for specific academic departments.
They stopped short, however, of meeting some of the more strident demands of the Trump administration, which nonetheless welcomed the Ivy League college's proposals.
Today's actions by the Task Force follow a similar ongoing review of Columbia University, said Monday's official statement.
That review led to Columbia agreeing to comply with nine preconditions for further negotiations regarding a return of cancelled federal funds.