Source: US Federal Emergency Management Agency
Headline: Harvard University Loses Student and Exchange Visitor Program Certification for Pro-Terrorist Conduct
lass=”text-align-center”>Harvard is being held accountable for collaboration with the CCP, fostering violence, antisemitism, and pro-terrorist conduct from students on its campus
WASHINGTON – Today, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered DHS to terminate the Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification
This means Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status
Harvard’s leadership has created an unsafe campus environment by permitting anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators to harass and physically assault individuals, including many Jewish students, and otherwise obstruct its once-venerable learning environment
Many of these agitators are foreign students
Harvard’s leadership further facilitated, and engaged in coordinated activity with the CCP, including hosting and training members of a CCP paramilitary group complicit in the Uyghur genocide
“This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus,” said Secretary Noem
“It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments
Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing
It refused
They have lost their Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law
Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country
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On April 16, 2025, Secretary Noem demanded Harvard provide information about the criminality and misconduct of foreign students on its campus
Secretary Noem warned refusal to comply with this lawful order would result in SEVP termination
This action comes after DHS terminated $2
7 million in DHS grants for Harvard last month
Harvard University brazenly refused to provide the required information requested and ignored a follow up request from the Department’s Office of General Council
Secretary Noem is following through on her promise to protect students and prohibit terrorist sympathizers from receiving benefits from the U
S
government
Facts about Harvard’s toxic campus climate:
A joint-government task force found that Harvard has failed to confront pervasive race discrimination and anti-Semitic harassment plaguing its campus
Jewish students on campus were subject to pervasive insults, physical assault, and intimidation, with no meaningful response from Harvard’s leadership
A protester charged for his role in the assault of a Jewish student on campus was chosen by the Harvard Divinity School to be the Class Marshal for commencement
Harvard’s own 2025 internal study on anti-Semitism revealed that almost 60% of Jewish students reported experiencing “discrimination, stereotyping, or negative bias on campus due to [their] views on current events
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In one instance, a Jewish student speaker at a conference had planned to tell the story of his Holocaust survivor grandfather finding refuge in Israel
Organizers told the student the story was not “tasteful” and laughed at him when he expressed his confusion
They said the story would have justified oppression
Meanwhile, Pro-Hamas student groups that promoted antisemitism after the October 7 attacks remained recognized and funded
Instead of protecting its students, Harvard has let crime rates skyrocket, enacted racist DEI practices, and accepted boatloads of cash from foreign governments and donors
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