Harvard's President Alan Garber talks about his legal fight with Trump

Dr. Alan Garber, President of Harvard, does not agree with President Trump about many things. He is fighting Mr. Trump when the Federal Government tries to undress Harvard of billions of dollars of research financing and its non -profit tax status.

But Dr. Garber agrees with Mr. Trump in one point. In one of the rare interviews that he started with the Federal Government since the beginning of Harvard, Dr. Garber this week that Harvard has a problem with campus culture that urgently needs to be remedied.

Harvard has often excluded voices with which many liberals do not agree, he said, and it made it possible for anti -Semitism uncontrollably.

“The problem for me was not mainly whether we had problems that we had to do,” said Dr. Garber in a long interview in Washington.

The problem is the methods of the Trump administration, which become more aggressive from day to day. Last month, Trump officers said that they would limit more than 2 billion US dollars of federal funds that are intended for the university to force them to meet a number of demands, says Harvard violating the first change. On Friday, Mr. Trump escalated the attack and said the Internal Revenue Service would take Harvard's tax exemption status away and threaten many millions.

For Dr. Garber is not the defense and reform of Harvard not provincial issues. The Americans question a university system that many of their values ​​consider separate. He believes that deep financing cuts would affect the type of innovative work that American research universities have made a global engine for scientific discoveries since the Second World War.