The Trump administration has said Harvard and other elite universities failed to protect Jewish students from harassment in the wake of campus protests over the war in Gaza.

Some alumni want Harvard to resist Trump administration demands the university must meet to receive $9 billion in federal grants and contracts being threatened during an investigation into campus antisemitism.

The Trump administration is threatening to rescind federal funding over several problems with Harvard University’s structure and alleged failures, including allowing and fueling antisemitism. The federal government has pushed large universities like Columbia and Brown to change their policies and reform their schools in order to continue receiving federal funding.