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Trump administration blocks Harvard from enroling international students amid antisemitism probe

Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem said the decision was linked to the college’s ‘failure to comply’ with the administration’s demands

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The Trump administration has banned Harvard from enroling new international students and suspended its visa programme (Pictured: US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem; Image: Getty)

The Antisemitism Awareness Act is effectively on hold after a fiery Senate committee sessions saw objections raised by both Democrats and Republicans, including Kentucky's Rand Paul (lower centre) (Image: Getty)

Antisemitism Awareness Act on hold after fiery Senate hearing

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Harvard University has released a long-awaited report into allegations of antisemitism on its campus (Pictured: Students leaving the university estate in April 2025; Image: Getty)

Harvard releases long-awaited report into campus antisemitism

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Protestors gather to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil (Getty)

Columbia refusing to help identify ‘pro-Hamas’ students, White House says

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Jewish judge temporarily blocks deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, Columbia protest leader

The leader of the New York university’s pro-Palestinian movement was detained by immigration officials last weekend

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March 11, 2025 09:27

Three California schools accused of ignoring campus antisemitism in federal complaint

The filings alleging civil rights violations were sent to the Education Department after Jewish students were ‘targeted’ by pro-Palestine activists

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March 7, 2025 12:48

Three California schools have had complaints filed against them with the Education Department over campus antisemitism (Pictured: Cal Poly Humboldt; Image: X)

Trump vows to take over Gaza for the US

‘I think it’s something that could change history’ said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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February 5, 2025 07:08

US President Donald Trump (R) meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump withdraws USA from UN Human rights council and UNRWA to put ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran

Both bodies have been accused of anti-Israel bias

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February 4, 2025 21:36

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 04: U.S. President Donald Trump is handed an executive order by White House staff secretary Will Scharf (L) in the Oval Office of the White House on February 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump signed two executive orders, one "reimposing maximum pressure on Iran" and a second executive order withdrawing the United States from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East and the United Nations Human Rights Council. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump nominee to UN defends Jewish settlers’ rights to live anywhere in West Bank

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik also said she would tackle bias at the UN

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January 22, 2025 10:33

Rep. Elise Stefanik at her confirmation hearing (Getty Images)

‘I support Israel destroying and killing every last member of Hamas’ says Trump nominee Pete Hegseth

The prospective US Secretary of Defence said he would support Israel’s attempts to rid Gaza of Hamas

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January 15, 2025 14:04

US President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth testifies during his Senate Armed Services (Image: Getty)

Former US president Jimmy Carter, peace broker and Israel critic, dies at 100

Carter was instrumental in forging peace between Egypt and Israel, but was a critic of the Jewish state in his later years

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December 30, 2024 12:10

WASHINGTON DC, USA: (FILE PHOTO) The triple handshake between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (L), US President Jimmy Carter (C) and Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin seals the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treat March 26, 1979 on the White House lawn in Washington DC. Three years later, Jewish settlers resisted evacuation from their Sinai Desert settlements and now, 22 years after that, another generation of settlers in the Gaza Strip are threatening a last stand against forced removal should ruling Prime Minister Ariel Sharon go through with his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Tel Or Beni/GPO/Getty Images)

US condemns Ben-Gvir’s call for synagogue on Temple Mount

Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia were among the Muslim countries that officially condemned Ben-Gvir’s comments.

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August 28, 2024 09:35

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir seen at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, after his visit at the Temple Mount, during Tisha B'Av, August 13, 2024. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90) כותל מערבי איתמר בן גביר השר לביטחון לאומי תשעה באב

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh killed in Tehran, terror group blames ‘treacherous Zionists’

The Hamas political bureau chief was one of the terrorist group's most senior leaders alongside Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the October 7 massacres

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July 31, 2024 06:12

Hamas senior political leader Ismail Haniyeh, who lives in Qatar, speaks to the press upon his arrival at the Rafah border crossing from Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip, September 19, 2017 (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

Harvard didn’t act on campus antisemitism says congressional report

US congress members accused the elite college of failing in their duty of care to Jewish students

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May 17, 2024 09:56

Dr. Claudine Gay, President of Harvard University, Liz Magill, President of University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Sally Kornbluth, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, testify before the House Education and Workforce Committee December 05, 2023 in Washington, DC (Getty Images).

Hamas rejects ceasefire offer in Cairo

‘We have seen them reject a number of proposals before that we have thought would deliver incredible benefits to the Palestinian people ’ a U.S. State Department spokesman said

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April 9, 2024 10:41

People inspect damage and remove items from their homes following Israeli airstrikes on April 07, 2024 in Khan Yunis, Gaza. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)

White House ‘outraged’ over strike on aid workers as British victims named

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it a ‘tragic case’

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April 2, 2024 21:56

TOPSHOT - EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / United Nations staff members inspect the carcass of a car used by US-based aid group World Central Kitchen, that was hit by an Israeli strike the previous day in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on April 2, 2024, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The international food aid charity said on April 2 it was pausing its Gaza aid operations after seven of its staff were killed in a "targeted Israeli strike" as they unloaded desperately needed food aid delivered by sea from Cyprus. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

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Andrew Bernard

Latest from Andrew Bernard

Trump administration blocks Harvard from enroling international students amid antisemitism probe

Antisemitism Awareness Act on hold after fiery Senate hearing

Harvard releases long-awaited report into campus antisemitism

Columbia refusing to help identify ‘pro-Hamas’ students, White House says

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Jewish judge temporarily blocks deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, Columbia protest leader

Three California schools accused of ignoring campus antisemitism in federal complaint

Trump vows to take over Gaza for the US

Trump withdraws USA from UN Human rights council and UNRWA to put ‘maximum pressure’ on Iran

Trump nominee to UN defends Jewish settlers’ rights to live anywhere in West Bank

‘I support Israel destroying and killing every last member of Hamas’ says Trump nominee Pete Hegseth

Former US president Jimmy Carter, peace broker and Israel critic, dies at 100

US condemns Ben-Gvir’s call for synagogue on Temple Mount

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh killed in Tehran, terror group blames ‘treacherous Zionists’

Harvard didn’t act on campus antisemitism says congressional report

Hamas rejects ceasefire offer in Cairo

White House ‘outraged’ over strike on aid workers as British victims named