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美国马萨诸塞州剑桥市，哈佛大学对面商店橱窗内的哈佛大学商品，拍摄于2025年4月16日（星期三）。
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周五，特朗普政府对哈佛大学提起了一项新的数十亿美元诉讼，指控该校违反民权法，未能保护犹太裔和以色列学生免受歧视。
该诉讼要求联邦法官下令该校偿还数百万美元的拨款，并暂停现有超过26亿美元的拨款。
这起诉讼标志着唐纳德·特朗普总统及其团队为加大对常春藤盟校压力所做的最新努力，此前高层和解谈判未能达成协议。
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经过数月的反复拉锯，谈判在2月初逐渐升温——直到《纽约时报》报道称，白宫已放弃要求该校支付资金的要求，援引多位匿名消息来源。特朗普随后重申了他的要求，称其政府”现在寻求10亿美元的损害赔偿”。
一位政府官员周五告诉CNN，谈判者”本已接近达成协议，却突然失联”，称双方”没有任何沟通”，而哈佛大学”在拖延时间”。
哈佛大学在一份声明中表示，该校”已采取实质性、积极主动的措施解决反犹主义的根本原因，并在校园内积极执行反骚扰和反歧视规则及政策”。
哈佛大学补充称，此次诉讼”代表了政府为拒绝将哈佛大学控制权移交给联邦政府而采取的又一次借口性和报复性行动”。
对犹太学生环境”充满敌意”的指控
周五的诉讼指控称，哈佛大学违反了《民权法案》第六章，该法案禁止在接受联邦资助的项目或活动中基于种族、肤色或民族血统进行歧视。特朗普政府称，这导致以色列和犹太学生面临”充满敌意的教育环境”。
诉讼称，该校”故意漠视”学生安全，列举的例子包括2023年10月7日哈马斯袭击以色列至今，校园内发生的教室和图书馆抗议活动，以及”戴犹太小圆帽（kippah）的学生被当面吐痰、在校园内被跟踪、被同学用’希特勒万岁’等口号辱骂”等事件。
“哈佛大学未能保护其犹太学生免受骚扰，并允许歧视在校园内肆虐，”白宫发言人莉兹·休斯顿在一份声明中告诉CNN。
哈佛大学此前曾表示，在解决校园反犹主义问题上，该校”远非漠视”。
“反犹主义是一个严重问题，无论在何种情况下，都是不可接受的。哈佛大学已采取实质性、积极主动的措施，解决其社区内反犹主义的根本原因，”该校通讯主任杰森·牛顿在一份声明中表示。此前，特朗普政府调查去年得出结论称，该校”严重违反”《民权法案》。
政府要求法官宣布哈佛大学违反其与联邦政府的合同，因为它违反了法律，这意味着该校将无法获得额外拨款。它还要求法院”撤销并要求美国收回哈佛大学在违反第六章期间获得的所有拨款，并任命一名独立的外部监督员，而该校一直抵制这一要求。
在华盛顿官员去年因哈佛大学拒绝屈从于总统意志而采取一系列戏剧性报复措施后，哈佛大学与特朗普政府已在法庭上争执数月。其中包括试图切断该校接待外国学生的资格，以及冻结数十亿美元联邦研究资金。
波士顿一名法官裁定，这两项措施均属非法，而政府对这些裁决的上诉目前正在美国第一巡回上诉法院进行，该法院有多名民主党总统任命的法官。
与此同时，特朗普政府继续利用联邦政府的多个杠杆，寻找新的、创造性的方式对这所精英学府施加压力。教育部因”对该校财务状况日益担忧”，将其置于”强化现金监控”状态。商务部也针对该校的专利等其他举措。
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Trump administration sues Harvard, alleging school didn’t protect Jewish students as settlement talks go nowhere
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The Trump administration slapped a new multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Harvard University on Friday, alleging that the school is in violation of a civil rights law and has failed to protect Jewish and Israeli students from discrimination.
It is asking a federal judge to require the school to pay back millions in grant payments and halt more than $2.6 billion in existing grants.
The complaint marks the latest effort by President Donald Trump and his team to ratchet up pressure on the Ivy League school as high-level talks toward a settlement have failed to produce a resolution.
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After months of fits and starts, negotiations had been heating up in early February – until The New York Times reported that the White House had dropped demands for a financial payment from the university, citing multiple unnamed sources. Trump subsequently doubled down on his demands, saying that his administration was “now seeking One Billion Dollars in damages.”
Negotiators “were close – and they ghosted,” an administration official told CNN on Friday, saying that there has been “no communication” and that Harvard has been “dragging their feet.”
In a statement, the university said it “has taken substantive, proactive steps to address the root causes of antisemitism and actively enforces anti-harassment and anti-discrimination rules and policies on campus.”
The lawsuit, Harvard added, “represents yet another pretextual and retaliatory action by the administration for refusing to turn over control of Harvard to the federal government.”
Allegations of a ‘hostile’ environment for Jewish students
Friday’s lawsuit alleges that Harvard is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color or national origin in programs or activities receiving federal funding, due to what the Trump administration describes as “a hostile educational environment” for Israeli and Jewish students.
The school has been “deliberately indifferent,” the lawsuit alleges, pointing to examples including protests in classrooms and libraries and students who were “spit on in the face for wearing a yarmulke, stalked on campus, and jeered by peers with calls of ‘Heil Hitler,” among others, that took place between the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel until present day.
“Harvard University has failed to protect its Jewish students from harassment and has allowed discrimination to wreak havoc on its campus,” White House spokesperson Liz Huston told CNN in a statement.
Harvard has previously said that the school is “far from indifferent” when it comes to addressing antisemitism on campus.
“Antisemitism is a serious problem and no matter the context, it is unacceptable. Harvard has taken substantive, proactive steps to address the root causes of antisemitism in its community,” the university’s communications director Jason Newton said in a statement after a Trump investigation concluded last year that the school was in “violent violation” of the Civil Rights Act.
The administration is asking the judge to declare Harvard in breach of its contract with the federal government because it is in violation of the law, which would mean the school would not receive additional grant payments. It has also requested that the court “rescind and award the United States restitution of all grant payments made to Harvard during the time of Harvard’s noncompliance with Title VI, along with the appointment of an independent outside monitor, which the school has resisted.
Harvard and the Trump administration have been sparring in court for months after the officials in Washington took several dramatic steps last year to retaliate against the university after it refused to bend to the president’s will. Among those steps was an attempt to cut off the school’s ability to host foreign students and the freezing of billions of dollars in federal research funding.
A judge in Boston concluded that both efforts were unlawful, and the government’s appeal of those decisions is currently underway at the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals, which is stacked with appointees of Democratic presidents.
In the meantime, the Trump administration has continued to find new and creative ways to exert pressure on the elite institution using multiple levers of the federal government. The Department of Education placed the university on “Heightened Cash Monitoring” status due to what it described as “growing concerns regarding the university’s financial position.” The Department of Commerce has also targeted the school’s patents, among other moves.
CNN’s Devan Cole contributed to this report.
This story has been updated with comment from Harvard.
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