NYT’s Alan Blinder on Harvard: Question Is Whether You Can Legally Connect Research Funding and Grant Funding To Antisemitism

EXCERPT:

BLINDER: "That’s exactly one of the things Harvard has argued, is that they’re not condoning anti-Semitism. In fact, the Justice Department’s lawyer kept holding up a three-ring binder yesterday with Harvard’s own report about anti-Semitism, the one it released a few weeks after the administration really went on the attack against the university. And the judge said this yesterday. She said, 'No one is saying this is a, you know, a debate to — if I rule in Harvard’s favor, it’s not that I’m condoning anti-Semitism or anything like that.' She said, 'It’s a question of whether you can legally connect research funding and grant funding to anti-Semitism. That’s the matter before her. It's not a matter of what Harvard has or hasn't done."