Trump Bars Harvard From Enrolling Foreign Students
…Accuses It, Columbia Varsity of Communism, Anti- Israeli Tendency
By Yadnom Awu/ Asaba
American President, Donald Trump, today barred Harvard University from enrolling foreign students.
It is also contemplating asking the management of the university to transfer existing foreign students to other schools.
The shock move was announced today by the Department of Homeland Security,
and it followed the failure of the university management to furnish the department and Trump’s Task Force on Anti- Semitism, the operational euphemism for all acts considered antagonistic to the interest of the Jewish state of Israel, with
The Task Force had written the management in April this year, asking for a list of students who had either demonstrated anti,- semitic tendencies or had the inclination to do so.
The inauguration of the Task Force , and its request for the list of the students followed a surge in public expression of views critical of Israel regarding its conduct in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, where it has launched a high heel military campaign and a blockade that prohibited food, water, medicine and other humanitarian items from entering Gaza for 11 weeks.
Harvard, which is one the blue chip universities in America and one of the best regarded in the world, and Columbia, has been at the heart of the on- campus protests against Israel.
The management of Harvard had since described the move by Trump as illegal , and, therefore, of no moment.
Columbia University Management, on which campus, American security agents have arrested many Anti- Israel protesters, with many of them threatened with deportation.
Trump, since he was inaugurated into office in January, has clamped down on anti -Israeli protesters, whom he terms terrorists.
The ban on Harvard, which has said it would not comply with the presidential order as it infringes on the American Constitution and the autonomy of the university system.
