Harvard University on Tuesday filed an update to its lawsuit against the Trump administration after another $450 million of research funding was cut.
The Ivy League school amended the lawsuit hours after the federal government’s Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism announced that eight federal agencies were terminating approximately $450 million in grants over what is described as Harvard’s "radical" and "dark problem" on campus.
"Harvard University has repeatedly failed to confront the pervasive race discrimination and anti-Semitic harassment plaguing its campus," the task force said in a statement.
The latest freeze comes in addition to the already frozen $2.2 billion in funding to the university and threats by the Trump administration to revoke its tax-exempt status.
Harvard filed the initial lawsuit in April to block the initial $2.2 billion freeze.
In its amended lawsuit, Harvard said much of the funding that was initially frozen has now been terminated, apparently with no hope of restoring it.
A May 6 letter from the National Institute of Health notified Harvard that grants were being cut over allegations of campus antisemitism. It said grants are typically suspended pending an opportunity to take corrective action, but "no corrective action is possible here," according to the lawsuit.
Harvard later received similar letters from the Defense Department, Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture and other agencies, according to the suit. It's seeking to have those cuts overturned.
As the school faces funding challenges from the Trump administration, Harvard University President Alan Garber has agreed to voluntarily take a 25% reduction in pay for the 2025-26 school year. Other leaders at the institution are also making their own voluntary contributions, a Harvard University spokesperson told Fox News on Wednesday.
Fox News Digital’s Greg Wehner and Fox News’ Kitty Le Claire, along with The Associated Press, contributed to this report.
A fundraising campaign on the crowd-sourcing site GiveSendGo has raised over $15,000 for a Temple University student intending to wage a legal battle amid his feud with Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy.
The student, Mo Khan, was thrust into national controversy after Portnoy accused Khan of posting a video to his Instagram story showing a waitress inside the Barstool Sansom Street bar holding up a sign that read "F--- the Jews."
Portnoy initially offered to send the student on a trip to Auschwitz to learn about the Holocaust in response to his alleged role in the incident, but Khan declined. Instead, the 21-year-old is raising money for legal defense on GiveSendGo.
However, a video that Khan posted on X advertising the campaign received a community note after Portnoy disputed the student's account of what happened.
GiveSendGo co-founder Jacob Wells has told Fox News Digital the company will be "looking into" the validity of the campaign.
"We want to make sure campaigns are as truthful as possible so we take reports of disputes seriously, we have our verification team that can take a look, and we'd be happy to take a look at this as well," Wells said, admitting he did not previously know of Portnoy's dispute and the community note on Khan's post.
"It's not our responsibility or job necessarily to fact-find around every single campaign unto the nth degree, so there's a balance there, but we'll commit to doing our verification process… We will definitely commit to looking into the campaign as we would any other campaign and go after making sure it is truthful as can be placed in a platform like ours."
Wells added that if Khan misrepresented the events leading up to his fundraiser in the campaign summary, it "could be" grounds for removal of the campaign.
"It could be. I hate doing hypotheticals because there are so many variables in these situations," Wells said.
"If there are egregious examples of outright lies in campaign stories, for sure, that would definitely be a terms of service violation and something we would seriously consider for removal."
Khan claimed in his video that he had nothing to do with bringing the sign to the bar and was simply "reporting" on it. Khan also expressed anti-Israel beliefs in the rant.
"Although I had nothing to do with the sign coming out, nor do I know who did it, I know that the sign was provocative because it reminds people a lot of the unjust things that Israel is doing around the world, thus leading me to report on it," Khan said, later adding, "Israel kills thousands of people on a daily basis!"
Portnoy re-posted Khan's video disputing Khan and calling the student "a liar."
"This dude is a flat liar. I talked to him on the phone with his buddy and they both owned up to it and cried about it. He then lawyered up after speaking with his family," Portnoy wrote in response to Khan's post on X.
Khan has since responded to Portnoy on X, disputing the founder's claim that the student has retained a lawyer and cried over the phone.
The initial community note on Khan's post read, "The story is different from the story that he originally told Dave Portnoy, to the point where Portnoy called him a ‘liar,'" and included links to Portnoy's response and a New York Post article covering the exchange.
However, the post appears to have a new community note that points out a different factor in Khan's history as it relates to the incident.
The new community note now reads, "Several incidents of Mo Khan committing antisemitic acts have surfaced online, including him throwing quarters at Jewish students at Temple University." The new note includes links to an NBC Philadelphia story about the incident, but that article does not mention any of Khan's past antisemitic behavior.
Still, the new note also points out that Khan did an interview on a podcast run by Stew Peters, who is known to harbor and spread antisemitic beliefs, including operating the website "dontbeajew.com.
Temple University president John Fry appeared to condemn Khan's interview in a statement.
"Yesterday, we became aware that a student participated in an interview with a media personality who has a history of producing extreme antisemitic and racist content," Fry said. "The content of this interview was both appalling and deeply offensive. Antisemitism is not tolerated at Temple."
Temple has confirmed it suspended two students as part of its investigation into the matter. Khan has said he's been suspended by the university.
Khan has not been charged with any crime. Philadelphia police said they were gathering information about the incident earlier in the week.
Stop Antisemitism founder Liora Rez called on FIFA and the White House's FIFA World Cup 2026 Task Force to put a stop to the "Show Israel the Red Card" campaign ahead of the global soccer tournament.
The campaign began in February at a UEFA Champions League match in Scotland. Celtic FC fans unfurled a banner that called on FIFA and UEFA, the confederation that Israel is a part of, to punish the country’s national team over its response in Gaza to Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attacks. There was no penalty against Celtic FC or its fans for the banner.
Since then, CBC reported that the campaign has spread across other European countries, including Italy, Spain and Belgium, along with Brazil, Chile, Malaysia and Tunisia.
Rez said FIFA has done nothing to combat the issue.
"We’ve seen absolutely nothing, which is so alarming," she told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. "We’ve seen the head of FIFA say and do, again, absolutely nothing. We’ve seen none of the fans be penalized or removed from the games holding up these signs. So again, we want the task force that President Trump set up to step in ahead of time and be proactive and say, no, this isn’t welcome in the United States. This isn’t gonna fly here."
Rez added that FIFA President Gianni Infantino should take a "strong stand" against the campaign.
"I think it has to be eradicated immediately," she said. "Gianni Infantino needs to take a strong stand and say, ‘Bigotry and bias against the world’s only Jewish country is not welcome in any type of organization I’m heading.’ He has yet to do that.
"And because he hasn’t, we’re calling on President Trump’s task force to step in and demand that this kind of, again, bias and isolation and vilification of Israel is just not welcome in the United States. Americans aren’t going to stand for it."
Fox News Digital reached out to FIFA and UEFA for comment.
President Donald Trump tapped Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, as the executive director of the task force.
In March, Trump signed an executive order establishing the task force for the soccer tournament, which will be hosted by the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Trump will serve as the chair of the task force, while Vice President JD Vance will serve as the vice chair. As the executive director, Giuliani will be tasked with managing and overseeing daily operations.
Trump also announced Tuesday that Carlos Cordeiro, a FIFA senior advisor, will serve as a senior advisor on the task force.
The task force was created to lead federal efforts in support of the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup and the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
A White House official told Fox News Digital on Thursday that task force does not support any kind of proposal to exclude Israel from the World Cup.
"We hope that Andrew Giuliani, as head of this task force, really steps in and works with Gianni Infantino to say, ‘This rhetoric is not welcome here, you need to make a statement. And we’re not going to be welcoming antisemites, anti-Westerners, anti-American, pro-terror individuals, whether they’re fans or players, into this country,’" Rez said.
Republican New York Rep. Elise Stefanik grilled the president of Pennsylvania’s Haverford College during a congressional hearing Wednesday over disciplinary action on campus-related antisemitism since Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Haverford College President Wendy Raymond tried to sidestep Stefanik’s question of whether there had been any disciplinary action taken against a student group that was accused of antisemitism at the college. Raymond said the group’s statements were "repugnant" and indefensible, though did not elaborate on potential discipline.
"I'm asking about the disciplinary action," Stefanik repeated. "You were the one university president who failed to lay out if any disciplinary action has been taken, if any suspensions or expulsion. So I am asking you, was there any disciplinary action taken?"
Raymond again denounced the group’s statements, but said she would not speak to individual cases. When pressed on whether the college took "any" disciplinary measures related to antisemitism, Raymond began to sidestep again before answering, "Yes, there have been some."
Stefanik then asked about a mathematics professor at the college who allegedly made an antisemitic post online and whether the college launched an investigation or took any disciplinary action against the educator.
"Respectfully, representative, I will not be talking about individual cases," Raymond responded.
"Respectfully, President of Haverford, many people have sat in this position who are no longer in the positions as president of universities for their failure to answer straightforward questions," Stefanik said.
Stefanik was referencing her grilling of Ivy League college administrators from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard, her alma mater, in December 2023 regarding whether "calling for the genocide of Jews" violates the respective school’s codes of conduct. The school leaders, however, waffled in their responses.
"It can be, depending on the context," Harvard’s then-President Claudine Gay responded to the question.
"Antisemitic speech when it crosses into conduct that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation – that is actionable conduct, and we do take action," Gay said when pressed to answer "yes" or "no" if calls for the genocide of Jews break school rules.
Both Gay and Penn’s then-President Liz Magill resigned from their high-profile positions shortly after the hearing, while footage of the exchanges spread like wildfire on social media.
Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton contributed to this report.
One of the men accused of taking part in the antisemitic sign controversy that appeared at one of Barstool Sports’ bars in Philadelphia spoke out Tuesday in the latest twist in the ordeal.
A sign that read "f--- the Jews" was spotted at the bar in a video that went viral across social media over the weekend. Dave Portnoy has weighed in, at times furiously, and offered one of the men a trip to Auschwitz to learn about the Holocaust as penance for the antisemitic incident.
Mo Khan, who Portnoy identified as one of the men involved in the incident, released a statement about the antisemitic incident and accused Portnoy of sensationalizing it to his millions of social media followers. He implored those who watched his video to donate to his GiveSendGo fundraiser and blamed Portnoy for the attacks he has received.
"Although I had nothing to do with the sign coming out, nor do I know who did it, I know that the sign was provocative because it reminded people of the unjust things Israel is doing around the world, thus leading me to report on it," Khan said, reupping his claim that he was a "citizen journalist" in the matter.
"Dave Portnoy and his friends can choose to be triggered over the sentiments of that sign and even kick me out of the establishment forever. However, they have no right to destroy my life over free speech and ultimately something that was an edgy joke. Frankly, they’re more worried about destroying and uprooting me than the thousands of people getting destroyed and uprooted in genocide."
Khan claimed that Portnoy and the Jewish community have claimed that they were the victims in this incident, but he said he was the true victim. Khan said he was suspended from his university, lost an internship and received death threats over the incident.
Khan said when he agreed to Portnoy’s offer of an Auschwitz trip, he was making those statements "under duress" because he does not have the means or connections that Portnoy has. He said Portnoy is "hypocritically lynching me" and trying to cancel him while building a business based on an anti-cancel culture.
"Dave Portnoy owes me restitutions and an apology for everything he has done and caused for me in these past few days," Khan said. "In an attempt to expose me, he exposed himself as almost a total fraud, going back on anything he stands for."
Portnoy responded to Khan’s statement later Tuesday. He wrote in a post on X that Khan was a "flat liar."
"I talked to him on the phone with his buddy and they both owned up to it and cried about it. He then lawyered up after speaking with his family," Portnoy wrote. "His name got out because he’s a moron and uploaded ‘f--- the Jews’ sign to his Instagram before I even knew about it. He already went viral without me. He spreads hate and uses the conflict in Middle East as his excuse. And did it in a bar with my (company’s) name on it.
"Now he’s trying to profit from it. I’m sure he’ll make money because there is lots of antisemitism in the world. Regardless this is the least surprising thing ever. He is the definition of a coward. Zero accountability for his actions. I don’t care what religion you are or even how you feel about Middle East. This was an act of pure hate and this should disgust you."
Portnoy said in a separate video he felt "dumb" trying to "show grace" and make things right.
"This is what the face of being a coward is," he said of Khan.
Philadelphia police said they were gathering information about the incident earlier in the week.
Columbia University said it will cut around 180 staff members Tuesday following the Trump administration’s announcement in March that it canceled $400 million in federal grants over the Ivy League school’s "failure to protect Jewish students from antisemitic harassment."
"Across the research portfolio we have had to make difficult choices and unfortunately, today, nearly 180 of our colleagues who have been working, in whole or in part, on impacted federal grants, will receive notices of non-renewal or termination," acting Columbia University President Claire Shipman said in a statement. "This represents about 20% of the individuals who are funded in some manner by the terminated grants.
"In the coming weeks and months, we will need to continue to take actions that preserve our financial flexibility and allow us to invest in areas that drive us forward," she added. "This is a deeply challenging time across all higher education, and we are attempting to navigate through tremendous ambiguity with precision, which will be imperfect at times."
The White House did not immediately respond Tuesday to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Columbia University said in early March that it was "notified of federal action from Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Education (ED), and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) cancelling $400 million in federal funding to the University.
"The federal agencies cite ‘the school’s continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.’ There is no question that the cancellation of these funds will immediately impact research and other critical functions of the University, impacting students, faculty, staff, research, and patient care," it added at the time.
Then in April, Columbia University caved in to demands from the Trump administration in an effort to restore federal funding.
The Ivy League school agreed to ban masks for the purpose of concealing identity, empower 36 campus police officers with new powers to arrest students and appoint a senior vice provost with broad authority to oversee the department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies, as well as the Center for Palestine Studies.
As of today, "Columbia’s leadership continues discussions with the federal government in support of resuming activity on these research awards and additional other awards that have remained active, but unpaid," according to Shipman.
"Increasing budget constraints combined with uncertainty related to future levels of federal funding for research, including proposed reductions in facilities and administration (i.e., indirect costs) reimbursements, requires us to make difficult choices," Shipman said about the layoffs. "We have had to make deliberate, considered decisions about the allocation of our financial resources. Those decisions also impact our greatest resource, our people. We understand this news will be hard."
Fox News’ Louis Casiano and Alexis McAdams contributed to this report.
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said Monday he revoked "a teachable moment" offer to one of the men allegedly involved in the antisemitic sign at one of the company’s bars.
The sports media personality explained in a video the new twist that took place. A video of the sign, which read "f--- the Jews," surfaced across social media over the weekend. Portnoy had initially offered to send the culprits to Auschwitz, the infamous concentration camp run by the Nazis in Poland during World War II, to learn about the Holocaust against the Jews.
Portnoy said he talked to two of the men involved in the incident and that both of them "took accountability" for their actions over the weekend. Portnoy said a post from one of the men involved, who he identified as Mo Kahn, posted a lengthy statement on his Instagram saying he had nothing to do with the incident.
The statement claimed that the alleged culprit "documented what took place as a citizen journalist" and added that since the video went viral he’s "faced serious threats to my safety, which has been overwhelming."
The statement then added, "I abhor hate in all its forms. I was raised to respect and be amicable with all people. I hope honest and open dialogue can come out of this incident so we can address the deeper realities of the world we live in. With what I’ve learned (and will continue to learn), I hope to help create a safer space for everyone."
Portnoy said he called Khan after seeing the statement and that Khan told him he felt pressured to admit to something he claimed he had no actual involvement in.
"I’m like, ‘Hey, a--hole, you f---ing uploaded this to Instagram,'" he said. "'I didn’t put your f---ing name out there. Other people got it because you uploaded it to Instagram. You had a good laugh about it.’ And he’s like, ‘No, it wasn’t me, I would never do that.’ And I’m like, ‘Well, I’m getting a million DMs about you, including another antisemitic joke like six months ago. Like, how do you explain that one if you’re not ever doing anything like that?’"
Portnoy said Khan wasn’t going to explain the other alleged antisemitic social media post and added that "maybe my parents can explain that." The moment left Portnoy perplexed.
"I’m like trying to make this a teachable moment, throw a lifeline to a kid, and he’s like, ‘Well, I already got suspended from Temple’ because you got a ‘f--- the Jews’ sign at a bar and posted it on social media,'" Portnoy said. "What don’t you get about that? Maybe if you learn a life lesson. Maybe if people watch you go to Poland and seem like you’ve changed, this gets behind you."
Portnoy made clear he’s not going to send the man after all.
"F---, I’m sorry, man. I tried to throw you a lifeline and make something out of this, and now you’re a ‘citizen journalist’? You’ve had nothing to do with it? Buddy, you’ve uploaded a video with a sign ‘f--- the Jews,’ everyone laughed."
Fox News Digital reached out to Khan via social media for comment. Some of his social media has been deleted.
Philadelphia police said they were gathering information about the incident.
Philadelphia police have launched an investigation into an antisemitic incident that occurred at a Barstool Sports bar in the city over the weekend.
Video posted to social media showed bottle-service girls at the bar bringing out a sign that read "f--- the Jews." The clip immediately went viral and drew a fiery reaction from Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy.
On Monday, authorities were looking into the incident.
"We are currently looking into this matter," Philadelphia police told Fox News Digital. "A video has surfaced showing a sign at the Philly Barstool bar, located at 1213 Sansom Street, reportedly from Saturday night. We are working to gather more information and will provide an update as soon as possible."
Fox News Digital reached out to the Philadelphia Police Department for comment.
Portnoy said he was sending the two culprits in the incident to Auschwitz to learn about the Holocaust and the atrocities that took place in Poland.
Temple University said one of its students was involved in the incident, and the student was placed on interim suspension, according to FOX 29 Philadelphia.
"In the strongest terms possible, let me be clear: antisemitism is abhorrent. It has no place at Temple and acts of hatred and discrimination against any person or persons are not tolerated at this university," the school president, John Fry, said in a statement.
"Any additional students who are found to be involved will face strict disciplinary action under the Student Conduct Code, up to and including expulsion. I know that incidents like this do not represent our community and its values. Thank you for your support and continued commitment to ensuring that Temple provides a safe and welcoming environment to all its students, faculty, staff and neighbors."
The bar, which was located on Samson Street in the Center City neighborhood of Philadelphia, also released a statement. The bar said two of its employees involved in the incident were fired.
"We are saddened, embarrassed, and frustrated by the deplorable actions of a customer and misguided staff acting outside the scope of their duties, which resulted in anti-semitic hate speech last evening at our establishment," the bar said.
"We deeply apologize for the role we played in allowing hate speech to transpire, as we constantly strive to create a welcoming and accepting atmosphere for all groups."
Ben Stiller, Sen. Dave McCormick and others praised Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy for how he dealt with the culprits who initiated the "f--- the Jews" sign at one of the company’s bars.
Portnoy said in a video on Sunday that the two men who initiated the antisemitic signage at the Philadelphia establishment were going to be sent to Auschwitz in Poland to learn about the Holocaust. More than 1.1 million Jews were killed in Nazi concentration camps at the site.
"Good on @stoolpresidente for not only immediately working to address the horrific display of hate displayed in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, last night but also using it as an opportunity to educate on the tragic history of anti-Jewish hatred and violence," McCormick wrote.
"We can’t look the other way at antisemitism. It needs to be identified, called out, and crushed whenever it rears its ugly head."
Stiller "agreed" with Portnoy on going scorched-earth on the culprits. However, Portnoy eventually cooled off and decided to educate the men on the horrors of the Holocaust instead.
"Everyone needs to call out antisemitism when they see it. Thank you @stoolpresidente for doing the real work to ensure change," X CEO Linda Yaccarino wrote.
"This is a great use of money," ex-NFL sideline reporter Michele Tafoya added.
The "f--- the Jews" sign appeared at one of Barstool Sports’ bars in Philadelphia on Saturday. A man who posted the video showed others laughing, singing and dancing as music blared in the background. The sports media personality initially said he was on a "mission to ruing these people."
However, it appeared cooler heads prevailed.
"These are young f---ing morons who did this. They’re drunk. Do you really want to ruin somebody’s life?" Portnoy said. "And let me be honest, I don’t know what’s going on in the world … I’ve been doing Barstool for 20 years, I’ve had more hate, more antisemitism in the last year, year and a half, than I’ve ever had doing it," Portnoy explained.
"And I’m not talking politics or what’s going on in the Middle East – just hating groups of people. You hate my parents, you hate my grandparents – s--- like that, it’s crazy. So, yeah, my initial reaction was I’m going to burn these people to the ground, their families, everything. And it’s like, you know what? Maybe that’s not the best course of action. Maybe I can use this as a teaching moment."
Portnoy said he will try to turn a "hideous incident" into a learning moment.
"I talked to both the culprits who I know are super involved in it, talked to the families. I’m sending these kids to Auschwitz. They’ve agreed to go. That’s, of course the Holocaust concentration camps. Been in touch with (New England Patriots team owner Robert Kraft) who run the anti-hate group.
"We’re gonna send these kids to Auschwitz. They’re gonna do a tour of the concentration camps (in Poland). Hopefully learn something. Maybe their lives aren’t ruined, and they think twice and, more importantly, other people see it’s not just words you’re throwing around. To me, that’s a fair outcome of this event."
Portnoy said two other waitresses involved in the incident were fired.
"I’ve been shaking. I’ve been so f---ing mad for the last two hours," he said in his initial video. "I’m going to make it my life’s f---ing mission to ruin these people. I’m coming to your throat, I’m never ending."
Antisemitism has been on the rise since the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorists attacks by Hamas on Jewish people in Israel.
The Anti-Defamation League said last month that the number of incidents in the U.S. reached a record high last year, with more than half of the 9,354 incidents being related to Israel.
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said he will send the two men behind the "f--- the Jews" sign at one of his company’s bars in Philadelphia to Auschwitz after the antisemitic incident.
Portnoy made the announcement in a video after he went scorched earth on everyone involved in it. Bottle services girls brought out a "f— the Jews sign" to a group of men and women as music blared in the background. The incident was revealed on social media on Sunday.
The sports media personality initially said he was on a "mission to ruing these people." But it appeared cooler heads prevailed.
"These are young f---ing morons who did this. They’re drunk. Do you really want to ruin somebody’s life?" he said. "And let me be honest, I don’t know what’s going on in the world … I’ve been doing Barstool for 20 years, I’ve had more hate, more antisemitism in the last year, year and a half, than I’ve ever had doing it," he said.
"And I’m not talking politics or what’s going on in the Middle East – just hating groups of people. You hate my parents, you hate my grandparents – s--- like that, it’s crazy. So, yeah, my initial reaction was I’m going to burn these people to the ground, their families, everything. And it’s like, you know what? Maybe that’s not the best course of action. Maybe I can use this as a teaching moment."
Portnoy said he will try to turn a "hideous incident" into a learning moment.
"I talked to both the culprits who I know are super involved in it, talked to the families. I’m sending these kids to Auschwitz. They’ve agreed to go. That’s, of course the Holocaust concentration camps. Been in touch with (New England Patriots team owner Robert Kraft) who run the anti-hate group.
"We’re gonna send these kids to Auschwitz. They’re gonna do a tour of the concentration camps (in Poland). Hopefully learn something. Maybe their lives aren’t ruined and they think twice and more importantly other people see it’s not just words you’re throwing around. To me, that’s a fair outcome of this event."
Portnoy said two other waitresses involved in the incident were fired.
"I’ve been shaking. I’ve been so f---ing mad for the last two hours," he said in his initial video. "I’m going to make it my life’s f---ing mission to ruin these people. I’m coming to your throat, I’m never ending."
Nazi Germany operated the Auschwitz facility in Poland which house more than three dozen concentration camps. At least 1.1 million Jews were killed at the camp.
Antisemitism has been on the rise since the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorists attacks by Hamas on Jewish people in Israel.
The Anti-Defamation League said last month that the number of incidents in the U.S. reached a record high last year, with more than half of the 9,354 incidents being related to Israel.
A Barstool Sports bar in Philadelphia was thrust into the spotlight on Sunday as bottle-services waitresses held up a sign that read "f--- the Jews."
The video was posted on the Instagram account of Mo Khan and the video tagged Mike Wade. It showed the sign lit up with several other men and women partying without a care in the world.
The U.S.-based Stop Antisemitism advocacy group brought the incident to light on X.
Dave Portnoy appeared to be enraged by the incident.
"I’ve been shaking. I’ve been so f---ing mad for the last two hours," Portnoy said in an "emergency press conference" video posted on social media. "… I’m going to make it my life’s f---ing mission to ruin these people. I’m coming to your throat, I’m never ending."
Portnoy said he was on "the trail" for the last few hours to find the culprits behind the antisemitic sign.
"You think I’m going to put up with this s--- at my bar?" he asked. "I want consequences for f---ing actions. So, I’m not just sitting back … no, trust me. I have been on it."
Portnoy said he had talked to one of the waitresses at the bar and described her as a "total idiot." Another man, identified as Mike Wade, whose Instagram handle appeared in the video, wasn’t at the club, Portnoy said.
"I had this kid in tears turning state witness to me, rolling on the people there," Portnoy said of Wade.
The Barstool Sports founder said Khan told him that he wasn’t "antisemitic." But Portnoy said he didn’t believe him.
"Who the f--- would do that sign in my f---ing bar? You think I’m just gonna sit here? I’m gonna make it my f---ing mission to put you in lights. My f---ing mission," Portnoy said.
He said he the people were allegedly behind the sign to come up with a way to "make it right."
"What I’m saying is, I’m getting the names, I’m trying to be a little responsible, I’m trying to keep it together, but I’m on it," he said. "But I’m on it. I’m f---ing on it."
Portnoy later said the two of the bottle girls who were at the bar had been fired.
"I have Mo Khan’s cell and talked to his buddy who did it," Portnoy said. "I gave them 1 hour to make it right whether it be anti semitism classes etc. If it’s not up to snuff I’ll put em all in lights," he wrote.
Khan has since deleted his Instagram account.
Antisemitism has been on the rise since the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorists attacks by Hamas on Jewish people in Israel.
The Anti-Defamation League said last month that the number of incidents in the U.S. reached a record high last year, with more than half of the 9,354 incidents being related to Israel.
An adjunct professor at Harvard spoke out Thursday after the Ivy League university’s president, Alan Garber, apologized as scathing internal reports exposed that antisemitism and Islamophobia were prevalent on campus.
Eugene Litvak, who teaches at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that one of the nation’s top universities "was not ready" for the anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic behavior that has plagued Harvard since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
"Obviously, I was really, really upset," Litvak told Fox. "What happened at Harvard after October 7th, and [at] the university, in my opinion, again, that's my personal opinion, the university was not ready to face these kinds of challenges. None of the universities were ready."
"I'm commending, actually, the letter from the president of the university," the Harvard professor added. "What I really like, in science, we say that you cannot solve any problem unless you formulate it. So he formulated the problem in his letter. He acknowledged that there is a problem. Otherwise, nothing would happen."
Harvard president Alan Garber apologized in a letter Tuesday after internal reports unveiled antisemitism and Islamophobia’s presence at the Ivy League school. Garber described the findings as "disturbing."
"I think that's a step in the absolutely right direction," Litvak told Fox News Digital. "I would like to see the fruits of it. But again, I was very, very pleased because of the acknowledgment that there is such a problem."
Despite Garber’s apology and admission, President Donald Trump posted to Truth Social Friday stating that the administration will be "taking away Harvard's Tax Exempt Status," noting "It's what they deserve!"
In addition to solving the troubling culture of one of America’s top universities, the Harvard School of Public Health professor also stressed the importance of addressing the imminent danger publicly funded healthcare programs like Medicaid and Medicare face. Litvak, who serves as President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Optimization (IHO), noted that the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) cuts to the government would not harm the programs.
"I think Medicare and Medicaid are facing danger, regardless of what DOGE is doing," Litvak explained. "Medicare actually is going to become insolvent in 2036. It's very close. And Medicaid is not in the best position. I can tell you, we have, last year we had 4.9, this year I believe we would have more than $5 trillion spending."
The professor stated that reducing government spending, similar to DOGE cuts, on healthcare can be a solution to the looming crisis.
"I agree with the goal to reduce waste. It was a very timely call for waste reduction. It's much-needed, the Harvard professor added. "Before doing that, if I were making decisions, before firing people, I would say, ‘how can we improve the efficiency of what we already have?’"
While Litvak pushes for change in the public healthcare space, a dark cloud continues to hang over the Boston-based university as tensions between the Trump Administration and the Ivy League school have shown no signs of cooling down.
A lawsuit over $2.2 billion in frozen research grants is still ongoing, and the funds may likely be held up into the summer. Harvard president Alan Garber said the "consequences" of the decision to withhold grants would be "severe and long-lasting", and may impact work similar to that which Professor Litvak is hoping to accomplish.
In response to the suit, a White House spokesperson told Fox News Digital in April that the "gravy train of federal assistance to institutions like Harvard, which enrich their grossly overpaid bureaucrats with tax dollars from struggling American families is coming to an end."
A hysterical protester yelling about the "genocide" in Gaza interrupted a district town hall event being held by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., shortly after it began on Friday night.
As Ocasio-Cortez first began speaking, she pulled up a PowerPoint presentation for the night's event. She was then interrupted before even getting through her first slide discussing the Trump administration's budget cuts, including alleged cuts to local healthcare systems.
"I am a healthcare worker and I want to know what you're doing about the genocide in Gaza!" the protester started shouting at the congresswoman.
"Shame! Shame! Shame!" the audience began shouting at the disruptor. Audible "boos" could be heard as well.
Ocasio-Cortez attempted to appease the disruptor, but nothing she could say calmed the person down. Staff at the event allowed the disruptor to continue yelling until they approached her and eventually led her out voluntarily.
"Shame on you, you're a liar. You're a liar!" the woman screamed as others began to boo at her.
"Shame on you, I used to support you," the woman shouted as she exited. "You're a war criminal! War criminal! War Criminal!"
Ocasio-Cortez responded to the protester after things quieted down.
"I more than welcome people who disagree, or are super pissed off at me for any issue to come, but we have some ground rules here," she told the town hall's attendees. "Please wait for the Q&A, because we don't want to deprive all of our neighbors of the ability to have information and hearing them respond to it… We need to be able to have this conversation."
As rumors swirl over Ocasio-Cortez's ambition for higher office, the congresswoman raked in a massive $9.6 million over the past three months. The record-breaking fundraising haul was one of the biggest ever for any House lawmaker. Ocasio-Cortez's team highlighted that the fundraising came from 266,000 individual donors, with an average contribution of just $21.
"I cannot convey enough how grateful I am to the millions of people supporting us with your time, resources, & energy. Your support has allowed us to rally people together at record scale to organize their communities," Ocasio-Cortez emphasized in a social media post.
President Donald Trump declared Friday that "We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status," saying "It’s what they deserve!"
The announcement from Trump comes after Fox News reported last week that his administration asked the Internal Revenue Service to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status.
The Ivy League school's failure to address antisemitism on campus is grounds for losing its 501(c)(3) status, sources said at the time.
Trump said in mid-April that Harvard had "lost its way" and didn't deserve federal funding.
"Harvard has been hiring almost all woke, Radical Left, idiots and ‘birdbrains’ who are only capable of teaching FAILURE to students and so-called ‘future leaders,'" Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Look just to the recent past at their plagiarizing President, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States Congress."
"Many others, like these Leftist dopes, are teaching at Harvard, and because of that, Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning, and should not be considered on any list of the World’s Great Universities or Colleges," he continued.
"Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should no longer receive Federal Funds," Trump also said.
Harvard has become a target of Trump’s broader crackdown on universities, much of which is in response to last year’s anti-Israel unrest that erupted on campuses across the country.
On April 11, the Trump administration sent a letter to Harvard University President Dr. Alan Garber and Harvard Corporation Lead Member Penny Pritzker outlining the institution’s failures and a list of demands from the White House. In the letter, the administration accused Harvard of failing to uphold civil rights laws and to foster an "environment that produces intellectual creativity."
The Trump administration threatened to pull federal funding if Harvard did not reform governance and leadership, as well as its hiring and admissions practices by August 2025. The letter emphasized the need for Harvard to change its international admissions process to avoid admitting students who are "hostile" to American values or support terrorism or antisemitism.
Harvard refused to comply with the demands, with Garber saying that "no government… should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and areas of study and inquiry they can pursue." The university later filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its "unlawful" freezing of funds.
The Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in funding to Harvard, and is reportedly looking to slash another billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Fox News' Andrea Margolis, Alexis McAdams and Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.
Former Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff lashed out at the Trump administration, accusing it of politicizing the Holocaust and dishonoring the memory of six million murdered Jews after he was removed from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.
The Holocaust Memorial Council oversees the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Most of the members of the council are appointed by the president and serve five-year terms.
Emhoff, who is Jewish and is married to former Vice President Kamala Harris, was appointed to the council by former President Joe Biden.
Along with Emhoff, the Trump administration also removed several other council members appointed by Biden, according to The Hill.
After receiving news of his dismissal from the council, Emhoff took to social media to slam the administration, saying it was turning "one of the worst atrocities in history into a wedge issue."
"Today, I was informed of my removal from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council," he said. "Let me be clear: Holocaust remembrance and education should never be politicized. To turn one of the worst atrocities in history into a wedge issue is dangerous – and it dishonors the memory of six million Jews murdered by Nazis that this museum was created to preserve."
Emhoff said that despite his removal, he would continue to speak out against hate "in all its forms."
"No divisive political decision will ever shake my commitment to Holocaust remembrance and education or combatting hate and antisemitism," he said, adding: "I will continue to speak out, to educate, and to fight hate in all its forms – because silence is never an option."
Emhoff has previously been criticized for getting basic facts wrong about the Jewish religion, such as the origin of one of its most significant feasts, Hanukkah. Meanwhile, both his wife and Biden took heavy criticism for not being more supportive of Israel and its war against Hamas after the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks.
Emhoff has also accused President Donald Trump of being a "threat" to Jews. At a speech in Pittsburgh during the 2024 presidential campaign, Emhoff said: "Whenever chaos and cruelty are given a green light, Jew-hatred is historically not far behind." He added, "That matters today because Donald Trump is nothing if not an agent of chaos and cruelty."
In his first 100 days in office, however, Trump has made combating antisemitism, especially on college campuses, a major focus.
Among other actions, the Trump Department of Homeland Security has arrested Hamas sympathizers on college campuses who they say pose a threat to national security. The administration has also moved to pull funding from universities, including Harvard, unless they reform their governing processes and change their international admissions processes to avoid admitting students who are "hostile" to American values or support terrorism or antisemitism.
In response to a request for comment by Fox News Digital, a spokesperson for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum said: "At this time of high antisemitism and Holocaust distortion and denial, the Museum is gratified that our visitation is robust and demand for Holocaust education is increasing."
The representative added, "We look forward to continuing to advance our vitally important mission as we work with the Trump Administration."
Fox News Digital's Rachel Wolf, Morgan Phillips and Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
The Trump administration has launched investigations into Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review after allegations that the journal discriminated against readers who wanted to respond to an article about police reform because they were white men.
Both the Department of Education and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched investigations into possible violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The investigations were launched in response to information both federal agencies received about policies and practices for journal membership as well as article selection that may violate Title VI.
In a press release, HHS claimed the Harvard Law Review’s editor reportedly wrote that it was "concerning" that "four of the five people" who wanted to reply to an article on police reform were "white men."
HHS also said another editor at the Review suggested "that a piece should be subjected to expedited review because the author was a minority."
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color and national origin in education programs and activities that receive federal funding. Any violations of Title VI could result in the loss of funds from the federal government.
"Harvard Law Review’s article selection process appears to pick winners and losers on the basis of race, employing a spoils system in which the race of the legal scholar is as, if not more, important than the merit of the submission," HHS Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor said. "Title VI’s demands are clear: recipients of federal financial assistance may not discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin. No institution—no matter its pedigree, prestige, or wealth—is above the law. The Trump Administration will not allow Harvard, or any other recipients of federal funds, to trample on anyone’s civil rights."
In a statement to Fox News Digital, the school stated, "Harvard Law School is committed to ensuring that the programs and activities it oversees are in compliance with all applicable laws and to investigating any credibly alleged violations. The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization that is legally independent from the law school. A claim brought in 2018 was dismissed by the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts."
The investigations come as the Trump administration continues to feud with elite education institutions, announcing earlier this month it would be cutting off over $2.2 billion in funding to Harvard University while threatening cuts to another $1 billion of its federal grants and funding.
After Harvard refused to comply with a series of requests from the Trump administration to reform various practices on campus, the administration revealed April 18 that it would freeze more than $2 billion in federal funding for the institution.
Harvard University President Alan M. Garber said in a statement that President Donald Trump's administration tacked on additional requests that go beyond addressing antisemitism on campus, and the institution would not comply because the demands were unconstitutional.
Garber said the new requests "direct governmental regulation of the ‘intellectual conditions’ at Harvard," including auditing viewpoints of student, faculty and staff members on campus and eliminating all diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, offices and initiatives at Harvard.
"It makes clear that the intention is not to work with us to address antisemitism in a cooperative and constructive manner," Garber wrote. "We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement."
The Trump administration launched the Federal Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism in February, which aims to eradicate bias on campuses that have experienced incidents targeting Jewish students since October 2023.
"It is time for elite universities to take the problem seriously and commit to meaningful change if they wish to continue receiving taxpayer support," the task force said in a statement.
Fox News Digital’s Diana Stancy contributed to this report.
President Donald Trump slammed Harvard University as an "[antisemitic], far-left institution" and a "threat to democracy" amid growing tensions between his administration and the university.
"Harvard is an [antisemitic], far-left institution, as are numerous others, with students being accepted from all over the world that want to rip our country apart. The place is a liberal mess, allowing a certain group of crazed lunatics to enter and exit the classroom and spew fake ANGER AND HATE," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. "Harvard is a threat to democracy…"
In the same post, Trump also expressed his frustration that William Burck, the attorney representing Harvard, was a legal advisor to the Trump Organization. According to The Hill, Burck was fired after Trump posted on Truth Social.
Harvard has become a target of Trump’s broader crackdown on universities, much of which is in response to last year’s anti-Israel unrest that erupted on campuses across the country.
On April 11, the Trump administration sent a letter to Harvard University President Dr. Alan Garber and Harvard Corporation Lead Member Penny Pritzker outlining the institution’s failures and a list of demands from the White House. In the letter, the administration accused Harvard of failing to uphold civil rights laws and to foster an "environment that produces intellectual creativity."
The Trump administration threatened to pull federal funding if Harvard did not reform governance and leadership, as well as its hiring and admissions practices by August 2025. The letter emphasized the need for Harvard to change its international admissions process to avoid admitting students who are "hostile" to American values or support terrorism or antisemitism.
Harvard refused to comply with the demands, with Garber saying that "no government… should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and areas of study and inquiry they can pursue." The university later filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its "unlawful" freezing of funds.
The Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in funding to Harvard, and is reportedly looking to slash another billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.
While Harvard appeared to be quick to reject the Trump administration’s proposal, the New York Times reported that the university’s leaders and major donors pushed for the school to make a deal.
"For weeks leading up to the April 11 letter, the corporation took a very different stance toward the Trump administration. At the urging of some of its biggest donors, the corporation frantically tried to cut a deal with Mr. Trump," the NYT reported.
In December 2023, Harvard was criticized over its handling of antisemitism and anti-Israel unrest on its campus following Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre and the war that followed. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. — a Trump ally — grilled the university’s then-President Claudine Gay over whether "calling for the genocide of Jews" constituted bullying and harassment. Gay famously said that it depended on the "context," a sentiment echoed by the other Ivy League presidents who were questioned. Less than a month after the hearing, Gay resigned from her position. However, she remains employed by the university.
Yale University revoked the status of a registered pro-Palestinian student group this week, saying it "flagrantly violated the rules" and set up an unauthorized encampment to protest Israel and blocked Jewish students from crossing.
Students for Justice in Palestine's (SJP) chapter at Yale, Yalies4Palestine, rallied others to join the blockage over social media, the university said in a statement. SJP, which described the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel as a "historic win for the Palestinian resistance," has come under scrutiny in the last year for its alleged ties to Hamas.
The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) released a report last year alleging that SJP receives funding linked to organizations accused of supporting Hamas. The report also claimed that SJP endorsed violence against Israelis and collaborated with terrorist groups. A federal lawsuit was also filed against SJP and its affiliate, the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), alleging they acted as collaborators and propagandists for Hamas.
Lawmakers have been skeptical of the group, too. In 2023, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis directed state universities to disband SJP chapters, alleging that the organization illegally supported Hamas.
"Concerns have been raised about disturbing antisemitic conduct at the gathering," Yale's statement said. "The university is investigating those concerns, as harassment and discrimination are antithetical to learning and scholarship. Yale condemns antisemitism and will hold those who violate our policies accountable through our disciplinary processes."
The university added that it supports "free expression on campus" that complies with the school's "time, place, and manner rules."
The student group posted videos of the demonstration on its Instagram account, and videos posted to X showed a group linking arms and blocking a Jewish student from passing through the area.
Protesters were heard chanting, "Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest."
The disciplinary action comes nearly a year after anti-Israel protests erupted across Ivy League campuses, with Yale being one of the universities with major disruptions and arrests, including a massive graduation walkout. Yale University's president during the 2024 pro-Palestine protests was Peter Salovey. Maurie McInnis succeeded him June 30.
Yale maintains it took disciplinary action against the students appropriately this week and kept a "calm campus."
The removal of the student group's official status comes a few months after President Donald Trump clamped down on antisemitism on college campuses. In January, Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to report on actions taken to address antisemitism in public education and to analyze complaints related to campus antisemitism after the Oct. 7 attacks.
But not all schools are falling in line with Trump's order. Harvard University announced this week a lawsuit against the Trump administration for freezing billions of dollars in research funding to the Ivy League school.
The complaint argues the administration can't make a "rational connection" between antisemitism on the campus and the federal funding it receives.
Alex Soros, the son of notorious billionaire George Soros and chair of the Open Society Foundations, took aim at a left-wing climate group, saying: "All they do is talk about Palestine."
In an interview with New York Magazine in which he detailed his plans to fund efforts to foil the Trump administration’s agenda, Soros expressed his frustration with the leftist environmentalist group "Sunrise Movement," which is heavily funded by Soros-backed organizations.
"What the hell did they do, by the way?" Soros, who is Jewish, complained. "We gave them money, and now all they do is talk about Palestine. It’s ridiculous."
During the 2020 election season, Sunrise Movement, whose website says it wants to "force the government to end the era of fossil fuel elites," received nearly a third of its funding from the Soros-backed Democracy PAC and Sixteen-Thirty Fund, totaling $750,000.
Shortly after receiving these funds, Sunrise stepped into a massive controversy sparked by its Washington, D.C., chapter posting an antisemitic statement in which it vowed to boycott any events co-sponsored by "Zionist" Jewish groups.
In an October 2021 statement on "future coalition spaces with Zionist organizations," Sunrise DC said it was declining to participate in a D.C. statehood rally specifically because of the inclusion of the Jewish Council on Public Affairs, the National Council of Jewish Women and the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, which it said "are all in alignment with and in support of Zionism and the State of Israel."
Sunrise DC called Israel a "colonial project" that "treats all Palestinians, as well as Black and brown Jewish-Israelis, as second-class citizens." The group went on to ask the event organizers to remove the Jewish groups from participation, saying that the D.C. statehood movement is "incompatible with Zionism."
The statement was quickly slammed as blatantly antisemitic.
One user named Blake Flayton, a Jewish podcaster, called out the group, commenting, "You are intentionally pushing Jewish people outside of your movement."
"You are associating Jews in the United States with the actions of Israel," added Flayton. "This is antisemitic. You are antisemites."
In a follow-up post published several days later, Sunrise DC apologized for singling out the three Jewish organizations while not mentioning other groups associated with the event "with similar positions." The group doubled down on its stance against Zionism, calling it an "ideology that has led to Palestinians being violently pushed out of their homes since 1948."
The group said it was "committed to learning and growing as we continue to stand against Zionism, antisemitism, anti-Palestinian racism, and all other forms of oppression."
This post was also widely panned as antisemitic, with one user named Joel Petlin commenting that Sunrise was "trying to get out of a hole they dug for themselves by digging it deeper."
"*We apologize for singling out 3 Jewish organizations when we should've singled out everyone who doesn't hate Israel* is not actually an apology. It's just doubling down on Antisemitism," said Petlin.
This past October, Sunrise Movement published a long Instagram post railing against Israel, saying, "Climate justice means freedom for Palestinians."
"Why? Because Israel’s ongoing oppression of Palestinians means they will suffer some of the most devastating impacts of climate change, and Israel’s constant bombing harms the climate, ultimately harming us all," Sunrise Movement continued. "While committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, the Israeli military – which is backed and armed by the US – has released more carbon emissions than 20 of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations combined.
Democrats and left-wing leaders have long called criticisms of George Soros, who is a Hungarian-born Jew, antisemitic attacks. However, the Soros family’s funding of progressive anti-Israel agitators across the country, including those who mobilized at New York City’s Columbia University, has raised eyebrows as well.
Fox News Digital previously reported on Israel's minister of diaspora affairs and social equality, Amichai Chikli, saying that Alex is a mirror image of his father’s anti-Israel agenda.
When asked if Alex will continue to fund anti-Israel entities that bash the Jewish state, Chikli said it "looks like the son is a replica of his father. We have no expectation that his son will be a big Zionist."
Chikli noted that the Soros foundation "gives money to radical small Palestinian organizations in Israel that describe Israel as a colonial state and a moral sin."
Fox News Digital reached out to Open Society Foundations and the Sunrise Movement for comment, but neither responded in time for publication.
Benjamin Weinthal and Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.
Deborah Lipstadt, who served as special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism during much of the Biden administration, has indicated that she is "pleased" the Trump administration is seeking to tackle antisemitism.
"I’m pleased that they’re addressing it, because that’s what I did for the past three years, which was to really push the Biden Administration to seriously address it. So I am very, very pleased that it’s on their agenda," she told the New Yorker. The outlet noted that the conversation with Lipstadt was edited for length and clarity.
Emory University announced in December that Lipstadt would return to the higher educational institution later in the academic year.
Fox News Digital attempted to reach to Lipstadt on Wednesday via the email and number listed on Emory University's website, but did not receive a response to the comment request by the time of publication.
Lipstadt told the New Yorker that the Trump administration has been "calling universities to account."
"I also think there are many Jews, and some non-Jews, too, but many Jews who are disappointed by how universities have behaved since October 7th, and they see a strong – to use Passover terminology – a strong hand being used. Now, whether that hand is being used properly or not raises certain questions about what’s happening," she reportedly said, noting, "a lot of people were relieved to see this forceful approach. I think, in many respects, it’s going too far."
She indicated that many colleges have fallen short in tackling antisemitism.
"Look, the universities failed to address this seriously. And by failing to address this seriously, they failed the Jewish students on campus. They dismissed their grievances. They created an inhospitable atmosphere. We’re now seeing the fruits of that failure. What disturbs me so much is that the debate will now become over whether antisemitism is being used as a weapon to fight against people we don’t like. Antisemitism should not be a cudgel," she noted, according to the outlet.
"The fight should be against antisemitism and not against the institutions. The institutions opened the door. Most universities failed miserably to address this, and we’re seeing the consequences of that now," she told the New Yorker.
