Last month, one of Donald Trump’s assistant was the most trusted with an unprecedented attack for the American elite universities. The president has been following her to the message since then.

“We will go bankrupt Universities“We’ll take every federal dollar,” Leo Terrell, head of the newly created federal business squad to combat anti -Semitism.

If they do not play the ball, they must “a lawyer, because the federal government comes after you.”

This was not exaggerated. Since entering the White House, Trump has launched an attack on American universities with a few similarities in the history of federal government interactions with the higher education sector.

The latest Salvo in the war came this week when Trump Move To strip Harvard of tax exempt. On Wednesday evening, the American media reported that it had led the internal revenue service to start the step.

The White House referred the questions about HarvardThe tax of the tax department, which did not immediately respond to a request for suspension.

Trump’s Casus Belli is the claim that the college authorities – not only at Harvard University, but in dozens of other learning seats – have failed to protect Jewish students from harassment during widespread protests on the campus against the Israel war in Gaza, following the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023.

The preferred weapon is to block federal funds to compel institutions not only the enactment of more powerful policies on anti -anti -Semitism but also changing their employment and acceptance policies and ensuring “diversity of view” – a word symbol to compel tie to the right policy.

Scott Schneider, Austin’s education lawyer, Texas, said that the Trump administration’s movements over the past few weeks have been the first time that the federal authorities have withdrawn funds from universities without even the emergence of due legal procedures.

“This is without precedent in 60-70 years, as the government provided funding for higher education in this country,” he said. “What is going on is significantly forced.”

For Trump, he graduated from the Elite University in Pennsylvania, the campaign is essential for his political project – a front in the cultural war he launched on some of the most sacred liberal institutions in America.

The campaign contains the axis of Stephen Miller, Trump Policy Vice President, who leads many of the president’s local agenda.

“This is the establishment of the conservatives,” said one of the Republican strategy. “For decades, the conservative movement, and as a student, as a student, has blocked against the campus of universities as reasons for training on the radical left. This is their opportunity to do something about it.”

Miller’s contempt for “Wokenes” extends for decades. While he was a student at Duke University, another elite institution, he criticized his “leftist” bias, claiming that the Democrats outweigh Republicans at the college “with an amazing rate from more than six to one.

He wrote in the college newspaper in 2005: “Conservative students often feel that they have a harsh choice between opening up to their beliefs and getting a fair snapshot on A,” he wrote in the college newspaper in 2005.

In 2021, America founded a legal first, which filed lawsuits against what it calls “companies wake up”, including higher education institutions, on employment and admission policies that are claiming to be discriminatory.

These opinions are shared by another character in the Trump administration, Vice President JD Vance, a graduate of the elite law school, who criticized universities to spread “ridiculous ideas” such as critical race theory in American society.

He said in the 2021 speech issued in 2021: “Universities do not follow knowledge and truth-they are following deception and lies, and it is time to be honest in this fact.”

This approach is now a common currency in the Republican Party and has provided an intellectual justification for the current standing with IVY League colleges. Even Harvard University graduates such as Elise Stefanick, a member of the Republican Congress from New York, support the drive.

She said: “It is time to completely cut off American taxpayer financing for this institution, which failed to raise the level of its founding slogan.” “Defund Harvard.”

The first goal in the Trump administration’s Crusade was the University of Colombia in New York, whose leadership surrendered to the White House demands to reform a comprehensive governance and student discipline after it was suspended 400 million dollars in federal financing.

However, the money was not restored. “I showed that there is no benefit in taking the demands of the fatwa, because it will require more demands,” said Michael Thadius, Vice President of the American Colombia branch of the University of University professors. “This is not an enforcement procedure – it’s a political revenge.”

Instead, government officials doubled with more aggressive demands for government control over Colombia.

Harvard’s University of Harvard also managed, where she demands the work of Terrell to implement employment and admission policies “based on merit” and prepare an external party to audit the Student Authority, faculty and employees “in order to diversify the point of view.”

On Monday, Harvard challenged the government’s demands, saying it “will not give up its independence or give up its constitutional rights.” The White House responded by freezing more than $ 2.2 billion in the federal financing of the university and threatening to cancel its tax -exempt.

After Wednesday reports that the Tax Authority was moving to provide Trump’s threat, Harvard University late on Wednesday described any “illegal” attempt.

She said that this step “endangers our ability to implement our educational mission”, and leads to “a decrease in financial aid to students, abandoning critical medical research programs and innovation opportunities.”

The employees said that the Harvard University leadership has no choice but to stand in front of the White House. “The Muawiyah demands were in nature,” said Ryan Inos, a political scientist at the University’s College of Government. “It was insecure with American traditions that it is not surprising that the leadership was a refusal.”

Others see the Trump team accusing anti -Semitism as a way to support the support of the Republican Party among the Jews.

“I am a Jew and I have never bought the argument that the campus protests were a unique threat, but they created an opening for Maga to withdraw the Jewish voters to the Republican side for good,” said Michael Hershorn, a graduate, producer, writer and writer Harvard. “They are taking advantage of [the] shock [of October 7] In incredibly sarcastic style. “

If the confrontation falls in the court, experts say Harvard has a good case. Even some conservatives say that the demand for the diversity of the view can violate the protection of freedom of expression stipulated in the first amendment to the American constitution.

“Anything that reaches the semester will be very difficult for the government,” said Adam Kisel, an education expert at the right -wing Heritage Foundation. “It becomes very difficult to treat it [any individual utterance] Without violation of the first amendment. “

But others say that even if the White House fails in court, it will have succeeded in its main goal – cutting the IVY League universities in America into size and weakening their magic grip almost on the country’s imagination.

“I must wonder whether there is an implicit motive here is to undermine the distinguished situation occupied by elite institutions in higher education in our minds,” said Beth Akraz from the Institute of American Institutions, another center for a province, who holds a PhD from Colombia.

She said that the polls showed a slow deterioration in the public’s confidence in universities during the past few years. “So the political moment is mature so that they can transform public feelings.”