Trump to revoke Harvard’s tax exempt status, amid standoff over anti-Israel protests

US President Donald Trump says his administration will strip Harvard University of its tax-exempt status.

“We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!” Trump says in a post on his social media platform.

The Trump administration has withheld government funding from Harvard, Columbia and other US universities ostensibly over pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel campus protests over Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.

Trump has cast the protesters as foreign policy threats who are antisemitic and sympathetic to the Hamas terror group. The Trump administration is also attempting to deport some foreign protesters and has revoked hundreds of visas across the country.

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