New York: US President Donald Trump has threatened to strip Harvard University of his tax -exempt status after rejecting what it described as an illegal government requires to change his academic programs or risk losing federal funding.

From Columbia University, the Trump administration has reprimanded universities across the country across their handling of the pro-Palestinian student’s protest movement that burned campuses last year.

Trump has called the protests anti-American and anti-Semitic, accused universities of going into Marxism and “Radical Left” ideology and promised to end federal grants and contracts for universities that do not agree on his administration’s demands.

Some professors, students and university presidents have said that the protests are unfair in conflict with anti -Semitism as a pretext for a constitutional attack on academic freedoms.

Columbia, a private school in New York City, accepted negotiations after the Trump administration said last month that it had terminated grants and contracts worth $ 400 million, mostly for medical and other scientific research.

Harvard – President Alan Garber said in a letter Monday that Trump – Administration is made by Massachusetts University – including a revision to ensure the “diversity of the point of view” of its students and faculty, and a cessation of all diversity, rights and inclusion programs – were unprecedented “claims of power, unattended from law,” Rights.

Like Columbia, he said Harvard had been working to fight anti -Semitism and other forms of discrimination on its campus while retaining academic freedoms and the right to protest.

Hours after Garber released his letter, the Trump administration’s joint task force said to combat anti-Semitism that it freezes more than $ 2 billion in contracts and grants to Harvard, the country’s oldest and richest university. The administration did not answer questions about what grants and contracts had been cut down and Harvard did not respond to a request for comment.

Trump, a Republican, said in a social media post on Tuesday that he mulled whether to try to end Harvard’s tax -exempt status if it continued to push what he called “political, ideological and terror -inspired/support” illness? ”” ”

He didn’t say how he would do this. According to the US tax code, most universities are exempt from federal income tax because they are considered to be “run exclusively” for educational purposes.

The White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told journalists that Trump would see Harvard apologize for what she called “anti -Semitism that took place at their university campus against Jewish American students.”

She accused Harvard and other schools of violating section VI for the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination from recipients of federal funding based on race or national origin.

According to section We can federal funds can only be terminated after a long study and consultation process and a 30-day review to Congress-which has not happened in Columbia or Harvard.