Harvard University rejected various requests from the Presidential Commission on Anti-Semitism.

The task force wants to persuade Harvard to ensure that Jewish students on campus are no longer harassed.

Harvard counters that Washington won’t be bullied. (Related: Victor Davis Hanson: Are the elite higher education jigs up?)

Among other requirements, the Trump administration warned Harvard University to stop using race as a standard for admission, employment and promotion, contrary to the law.

He also directed the campus to ban masks that have anonymously encouraged violent protesters in the post-protest era.

The administration’s order to stop racially-based bias was in line with civil rights laws and a recent Supreme Court decision specifically banning positive actions at Harvard University and elsewhere.

it doesn’t matter. Harvard argued that the Trump administration violated First Amendment rights.

Therefore, it temporarily rejected the administration’s order. For at least now, Harvard has lost $2.2 billion in federal funds per year. (Related: “No Sullision”: Harvard smirks Trump Administrator’s Request to Address Anti-Semitism)

Former President Barack Obama praised Harvard’s University, among other things, for rejecting the administration’s anti-Semitism task force’s demands. He argued that the Trump administration’s efforts were Ham Hand.

But what academic freedom does Harvard University and Obama talk about? What is the freedom to discriminate and separate by the race of employment, enrollment, dormitory, and graduation?

What is the freedom of 500 Harvard students to crash other people’s classes, shut down traffic, and harass students based on religion and views on Israel?

Despite all the praises at Harvard University, its classroom is still confused. Jewish students remain horrible.

And, for example, what would Obama say if an African American student at Harvard University was harassed on campus by a masked disruptor?

Or did a student wearing a scarf on his face crash out of a black research class when he vented his hatred? Will he push the Trump administration and force Harvard to respect federal civil rights protections?

Don’t forget that Harvard is a private university with few donations that donated less than $50.2 billion. Again, we still receive about $2.2 billion in federal funds (now suspended).

The Management Task Force does not force Harvard to run the university in accordance with a version of the federal government’s instructions.

Instead, the Trump Commission simply warns Harvard that, in addition to the vast source of private funding, if they wish to continue with $2.2 billion in public funds from the federal government, they will have to comply with existing laws and executive orders.

Does Harvard remember the embarrassing testimony of former president Claudine Gay?

She failed to assure Congressional committees that Harvard had taken action against openly hostile anti-Semitic student protesters during the growth of the protests.

Does Harvard understand why the Supreme Court found that it was violating Article 14’s “Equal Protection Clause” and was prejudiced against Asian Americans?

Is there a reason Harvard lost about $150 million a year that he gave donors?

Does Harvard understand that no one believes that the class’s “cannot and cannot tolerate confusion”?

Perhaps Harvard should follow the strategy of an independent Hillsdale University, which long ago wanted to be freed from federal direction.

So unlike Harvard, the university unilaterally agreed to put its proverbs money in its mouth and abandon all federal funds to be free from the tentacles of Washington octopus.

However, there is one important distinction between Hillsdale and Harvard University.

Hillsdale doesn’t accept federal money, whether it’s a Democrat or a Republican administration.

I sincerely believe that the federal government itself does not follow the constitution, does not interfere with freedom, and forces universities to violate law equality when discriminating on race and gender.

Harvard does not have such principles.

That beef is not a covered federal concept that is eager to force private universities to follow certain protocols.

Instead, it is only at war with the Trump Commission, or, in theory, other similar conservative administrations that may wish to comply with the law as a condition of federal funding.

Otherwise, Harvard has no problem with the federal government of activists, as long as it is a liberal thing that enforces any kind of Title IX or DEI initiative at private and Christian universities that appear to have lost their autonomy by accepting federal money. When past state and federal governments made Hillsdale a hound for free, it said nothing.

So, Harvard can set it loudly and freely by pursuing the agenda forever with $50 billion, whether it’s Democrat or Republican, just as Hillsdale does it quietly for $1 billion without a taxpayer dime.

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About the author

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(Victor Davis Hanson is a well-known fellow at the Center for Greatness in America. He is a classicist and historian at the Stanford University Hoover Institute and is the author of “World War II: How the First Global Conflict Fighted and Winned.”