Harvard University has contracted a nasty case of antisemitism, which it has been unable to shake. President Trump, highly dissatisfied with Harvard's effort to stamp out anti-Jewish racism, recently barred Harvard from enrolling foreign students.
Losing international students would be a severe financial blow to Harvard. Twenty-seven percent of its students are foreigners, and most pay the university's full, exorbitant tuition price.
Harvard responded like all universities respond when their perks get cancelled; it sued. Fortunately, the hoary old institution is located in Massachusetts, which is chock-full of judges sympathetic to the higher education industry. Judge Allison Burroughs, an Ivy League law school graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, enjoined the Trump administration's action.
Harvard not only enriches itself with tuition money from foreign students but also receives substantial funding from foreign countries and global elites. For example, the Bin Laden family (Osama Bin Laden's kinfolk) donated $1 million to Harvard Law School to establish fellowships for students from the Middle East to study Islamic states that apply Sharia law.
Why did the Bin Ladens give Harvard this money? It could be because Osama Bin Laden's half-brother, Abdullah Mohammed Binladen, earned two advanced degrees from Harvard Law School.
Osama Bin Laden is dead, of course. But the Bin Laden family is filthy rich, and the Bin Ladens may want to send more relatives to Harvard. Osama himself had at least 20 kids, some of whom may aspire to getting a Harvard MBA or a master's degree in public policy from Harvard's Kennedy School.
Suppose Trump prevails in cancelling visas for Harvard international students. In that case, the poor Bin Laden kids might be forced to attend Yale or Princeton, and Harvard would miss out on receiving more Bin Laden money. Oh, the horror!
I have no sympathy for Harvard concerning its dispute with the Trump administration. This arrogant behemoth has gotten filthy rich taking donations from wealthy influencer peddlers, including countries that are hostile to the United States and its values.
Perhaps that's why Harvard has been unable to get antisemitism under control. It may not be trying very hard. After all, there's no money to be made fighting antisemitism.
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