National Security Issues of Education

In April the government froze $2.26 billion with Harvard University, when it refused President Trump’s Administration’s demand to limit antisemitism on campus, with almost $9 billion more at risk, if Harvard doesn’t comply.

Pompous Harvard President Alan Garber said, “The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. …No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”

One would think a Harvard president would know more about the law than Garber expresses.  Harvard implies antisemitism inciting violence is protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution.

The First Amendment states “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech,” but “simply because the government cannot make a law of this nature does not mean that individuals are free to say anything they want to,” according to lawyers at HG.org.  In fact, they give an entire list of speech not protected by the First Amendment, including “‘fighting words,’ which is speech that is used to inflame another and that will likely incite physical retaliation.  Likewise, language that is meant to incite the masses toward lawless action in not protected.  This can include speech that is intended to incite violence or encourage the audience to commit illegal acts.  The test for fighting words is whether an average citizen would view the language as being likely to provoke a violent response.” 

This same list of speech not protected by the First Amendment is also found at the Detroit Free Press and uscourts.gov where it’s stated the U.S. Supreme Court ruled speech “to incite imminent lawless action” is not protected as “free speech” as in the case of Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969).

Clearly, the First Amendment does not protect antisemitic speech leading to lawless action where “Harvard students and faculty members have harassed, intimidated and assaulted Jewish students in classrooms, in on-campus activities and on social media, including calling for the murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel,” including allowing a protester charged in the assault of a Jewish student on campus to be “chosen by the Harvard Divinity School to be the Class Marshal for commencement.” From 2022 to 2023 crime rates at Harvard increased 55%, aggravated assault increased 195% and robberies increased 460%.

President Trump has stated Harvard University is a “far-left institution” and a “threat to democracy.”

Harvard alumnus, Jonathan Harounoff, Israel’s spokesperson to the United Nations, stated, “…those are not just innocent protests — they’re open calls for violence.  The university should not be a space for endorsing such violence.”

Riots are organized at Harvard by “unrecognized student organizations” such as “Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine” (HOOP) and “the Palestinian Youth Movement.”  Why are non-Harvard radical groups allowed on campus?

Harvard’s problem stems from October 7, 2023 when barbaric murderous militant Hamas-terrorists attacked and killed 1400 Israelis, including over 40 babies, decapitating some, killing at least 33 Americans, and taking over 230 people hostage.  In response to this insanity, 33 student groups on Harvard University campus signed a letter published by the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee stating the students “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all the unfolding violence.”  Insanity begets insanity.

“Palestine” is a Latin derivative of the name “Philistine”, the age-old enemies of Israel, who were destroyed in 604 B.C. by King Nebuchadnezzar II, loosing “their distinct ethnic identity and disappeared as a people from the historical and archeological record.”  Under Emperor Hadrian, Rome destroyed Israel in 135 A.D.  Seeking to eradicate Judaism, Hadrian changed the name of the Holy Land to “Palestine,” and renamed Jerusalem, Aelia Capitolina. 

CBN reports “In 1977 PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) spokesman Zahir Muhsein … declared, ‘The Palestinian people does not exist.  The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity… Today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese.  Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people,’” meaning “Palestinians” are “today culturally and linguistically Arab[s].”

After World War I, the Ottoman Empire having lost the war, the League of Nations gave Britian control of the entire region.  In 1917 the British government’s issuing the Balfour Declaration signaled support of a Jewish state that was fulfilled on  May 14, 1946, when Britian gave 80% of the land (known as Transjordan) to the Arabs and to the rule of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.  Israel was left to occupy only 20% of the land.  Jordan was intended for the settlement of “Palestinian” Arabs with King Abdullah stating, “Palestine and Jordan are one” in 1948 and as recent as 1981 King Hussein of Jordan stated, “the truth is Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan.”  

Even the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, in 1974 is quoted as saying, “What you call Jordan is actually Palestine” in an interview quoted in The New Republic.

So, the two-state solution — already exists.

Presently, 27% of Harvard’s students are foreign.  Because of the radical groups on college campuses, the State Department is planning to ramp up screening and vetting for student visa applicants pausing all interviews at present.  The U.S. should not be educating enemies of the U.S. 

My undergraduate summers were spent in a Physics Department, which had a graduate student from Iran.  Asking this graduate student his plans after graduation, he stated, “I plan to go back home to make missile guidance systems for my country.”  After graduating, this man returned to Iran to probably make missile guidance systems to shoot and kill American soldiers and Israelis, using his U.S. education. 

Trump’s State Department says it will “aggressively” revoke visas for Chinese students connected to the CCP.  Kristi Noem, Homeland Security Secretary, stated, “This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus.” 

It’s insane to educate your enemy so they can try to blow you up and destroy your nation, such as number 50 of the list of “100 Notable alumni of Harvard University,” who is Isoroku Yamamoto.  Yamamoto was a Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II.  He graduated from the Japanese Naval Academy in 1904 and joined the Japanese Naval Staff College in 1916.  From 1919 to 1921 Yamamoto was enrolled at Harvard University studying English.  Returning to Japan and taking a position at the Japanese Naval College, by 1927 he was participating in war games including the “examination of a carrier raid against Pearl Harbor,” and lectured on this topic the next year.  Yamamoto is accredited with designing the attack on Pearl Harbor as early as December 1940, executing the attack without formal declaration of war on December 7, 1941, killing 2,403 Americans, wounding 1,178, and sinking eighteen ships including five battleships.

So, study this Harvard, foreign students need to be vetted and antisemitism leading to violence is not freedom of speech.  Until you understand these principles, no more free taxpayer dollars for you.  Education is a national security issue.