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华盛顿——特朗普政府周五向联邦法院提起诉讼，起诉哈佛大学，指控其在2023年10月7日哈马斯发动恐怖袭击后，未能保护犹太裔和以色列学生，违反了联邦民权法。
在这份长达44页的诉讼中，美国司法部要求马萨诸塞州联邦地区法院认定，哈佛大学在10月7日后通过”故意行为和对犹太裔及以色列学生遭受歧视性骚扰的刻意漠视，以及营造充满敌意的教育环境”，非法歧视了这些学生。政府称，他们正在寻求追回哈佛大学从联邦机构获得的数十亿美元纳税人资金。
这场诉讼是特朗普政府与哈佛大学持续不断的斗争中的最新战线。自特朗普总统重返白宫以来，其政府以哈佛大学未能解决校园反犹主义问题为由，试图取消数十亿美元的联邦资金。
该校就资金冻结提起诉讼，联邦法官去年9月裁定，政府在暂停近20亿美元联邦拨款时，违反了哈佛大学的第一修正案权利和联邦法律。
特朗普还推动美国国税局剥夺哈佛大学的免税地位，并试图禁止大多数国际学生赴美就读该校，但一名法官阻止了这一举措。
针对哈佛大学的诉讼
司法部在诉讼中称，哈佛大学”毫无悔意地”多次违反联邦法律，歧视犹太裔和以色列学生。政府律师表示，这些学生在校园内，包括在支持以色列的抗议活动中，因种族或民族出身遭受了”严重、普遍且客观上令人反感的骚扰”。
司法部指责哈佛大学明知犹太裔和以色列学生遭受骚扰，却未采取任何措施制止，包括未能执行校园规定。
“哈佛大学对校园内的敌意程度一直漠不关心，这种敌意在全国范围内都广为人知，以至于国会议员都在就此发表评论，”政府律师写道。”哈佛大学还故意拒绝执行其校园规定——这些规定适用于其他学生——当受害者是犹太裔或以色列人时。这向哈佛大学的犹太裔和以色列社区发出了明确信息：这种漠视并非偶然；他们正被有意排斥，实际上被剥夺了平等的教育机会。”
哈佛大学尚未立即回复置评请求。
特朗普政府去年4月对哈佛大学遵守《民权法案》第六章的情况展开调查，并于去年6月认定这所精英学府在对待校园内犹太裔和以色列学生方面违反了该法律。
政府警告称，若该校不进行某些改革，将失去联邦财政资源。据司法部称，哈佛大学预计将从卫生与公众服务部获得超过26亿美元的联邦拨款。
政府针对哈佛大学的许多行动，源于该校未能谴责反犹主义并保护校园内的犹太学生。但特朗普政府也将矛头指向了该校的招生和招聘做法。
Trump administration sues Harvard, alleging it failed to protect Jewish and Israeli students after Oct. 7 attack
March 20, 2026 / 11:20 AM EDT / CBS News
Washington — The Trump administration filed a federal lawsuit against Harvard University on Friday, alleging that it violated federal civil rights law by failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack by Hamas.
In a 44-page suit, the Justice Department asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to find that Harvard unlawfully discriminated against those students through what it said was the school’s “intentional conduct and its deliberate indifference to discriminatory harassment of Jewish and Israeli students and creation of a hostile educational environment” after Oct.7. The administration said it is seeking to recover billions of dollars in taxpayer money that Harvard has received from federal agencies.
The lawsuit is the latest front in the Trump administration’s ongoing battle with Harvard. Since President Trump returned to office, his administration has attempted to cancel billions of dollars in federal funding to Harvard because of what it said was its failure to address antisemitism on campus.
The school sued the Trump administration over the funding freezes, and a federal judge ruled last September that the government violated Harvard’s First Amendment rights and federal law when it halted the nearly $2 billion in federal grants.
Mr. Trump has also pushed the Internal Revenue Service to strip Harvard of its tax-exempt status, and moved to bar most international students from traveling to the U.S. to study at the school, but a judge blocked that effort.
The Harvard lawsuit
In its lawsuit, the Justice Department alleged that Harvard defied federal law repeatedly by discriminating against Jewish and Israeli students “without remorse.” Those students, government lawyers said, were subjected to “severe, pervasive and objectively offensive harassment” on campus, including during protests against Israel, because of their race or national origin.
The Justice Department accused Harvard of knowing about the harassment of Jewish and Israeli students, but doing nothing to stop it, including by failing to enforce its campus rules.
“Harvard remained deliberately indifferent to a level of hostility on its campus so well-known across the nation that members of Congress were writing about it,” administration lawyers wrote. “Harvard also intentionally refused to enforce its campus rules — rules it enforced against others — when the victims were Jews or Israelis. This sent the clear message to Harvard’s Jewish and Israeli community that the indifference was not an accident; they were being intentionally excluded and effectively denied equal access to educational opportunities.”
Harvard did not immediately return a request for comment.
The Trump administration opened an investigation into Harvard’s compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act last April, and determined last June that the elite school had violated that law through its treatment of Jewish and Israeli students on campus.
It warned that a failure by the university to enact certain changes would lead to a loss of federal financial resources. The school is set to receive more than $2.6 billion through federal grants from the Department of Health and Human Services, according to the Justice Department.
Many of the administration’s actions targeting Harvard stem from what it said is the school’s failure to condemn antisemitism and protect Jewish students on campus. But the Trump administration has also taken aim at its admissions and hiring practices.