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#ANTISEMITISM: AND HARVARD, PETER BERKOWITZ, HOOVER INSTITUTION

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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#ANTISEMITISM: AND HARVARD, PETER BERKOWITZ, HOOVER INSTITUTION
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0:00.0

This is CBS. I on the world. I'm John Batchel. Harvard University, the great Harvard University of the United States of America is under extreme duress right now because of a contest with the Trump administration over what we're told was the behavior of the college following the unacceptable

0:24.1

anti-Semitic activities of 2024. The behavior of the college is critical to the Trump

0:30.8

administration. We're told because it is the opinion of the president and his counselors that Harvard

0:35.8

has not done enough, either to protect

0:38.4

Jewish students or to redress the damages that were done in 2024. That is one complaint,

0:45.7

and I welcome Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution, writing his column for Real Clear

0:50.6

Politics at this moment about an aspect of this having to do with the Harvard Law

0:55.7

Schools. Now, why that is part of the whole is that Harvard has a number of extremely

1:01.6

sophisticated schools, and its endowment is divided between the schools, so it's not all one place.

1:07.8

But they are all representing the right now the threat to Harvard represented

1:14.6

by the Trump administration because the claim, the assertion, the evidence of anti-Semitic

1:21.7

behavior permitted and not redressed on campus leads to the Trump administration saying we will withhold funds,

1:30.3

grants and funds that are exchanged between the U.S. government and institutions, even private

1:37.7

institutions, and that's part of the relationship, until an F that institution demonstrates

1:43.9

it's not worthy of those grants and funds from the U.S.

1:47.5

government and then you're on your own.

1:49.5

There are other complaints, but that will do.

1:51.2

Peter, a very good evening to you.

1:53.2

As I understand it, the complaint about anti-Semitism has not been, according to the Trump people,

2:00.1

adequately responded to by Harvard.

2:02.8

Is that your opinion as well?

2:04.3

And I mentioned that Professor Berkowitz taught at Harvard in the late 20th century, entered into a

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