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College president whose school takes no fed funding says Harvard ‘could make it on their own’ after Trump cuts

The president of a prominent Christian college in Michigan reacted Thursday to President Donald Trump’s battle with Harvard University — and the billions it stands to lose due to a federal funding freeze over its response to on-campus antisemitism.
«We all have a right to free speech, but if you join the academic community, you don’t get to say whatever you want. You can’t go to physics class and talk about English Lit. Also, you can’t spit on people because they’re Jews or denounce them… because that breaks down the friendship that is necessary to the partnership of a college,» Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn told Fox News Digital in an interview.
«Now, having said that, of course — you shouldn’t say ‘dirty Jew.’ It’s perfectly legitimate to say, ‘I don’t agree with it.’ But to say, ‘Israel took that land, and they don’t have a right to it,’ and the response would be, ‘OK, see if you can prove that.’ That’s an academic undertaking,» he said.
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«Shouting, preventing people from going to class, threatening them personally. That breaks down the academic community. They shouldn’t be doing that. And it’s, you know, because the [1964] Civil Rights Act is written in a certain way; if they permit that kind of activity, Harvard is in violation of that act, and that act applies to every organization in America.»
A college, being an incubator of learning, should especially be an organization to prohibit such virulent behavior outright, Arnn added.
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Earlier this month, the Trump antisemitism task force froze $2 billion in grants to Harvard, and Trump later floated stripping its tax-exempt status after the school’s administration released a statement saying it would not comply with demands.
Arnn said that, antisemitic behavior or not, there are thousands of stipulations a college must agree to in order to receive funding from the federal Department of Education.
«The government has changed so much since 1960, and it’s all over everything now, including education. And Harvard doesn’t like some recent things it’s been demanded to do, but it’s obeying hundreds of pages of rules that are detailed, and they have to comply with because they have a lot of money from the government,» he said.
Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn is criticizing Harvard University. (Getty)
«So the obvious solution would be, don’t take the money from the government, which is what we do,» he said, referring to Hillsdale.
Arnn said Hillsdale, founded in the mid-19th century in part by friends of then-Illinois attorney Abraham Lincoln, has never been as wealthy as Harvard but remains an exceptional institution.
«The fact that they are defending [themselves] is good, and maybe they should have the complete courage of their convictions and just give [the funding] up,» he said.
If the frozen funds account for the school’s annual federal contribution, it would calculate to $90,000 per student, Arnn added, noting the school also has a large endowment.
«Maybe they could make it on their own,» he said.
«Every transaction at Hillsdale College… is a voluntary transaction… [N]obody comes here unless they want to, they have to sign an honor code to come.»

President Donald Trump froze federal funding to Harvard University. (Getty Images)
Arnn compared Hillsdale’s connections to a politically budding Lincoln to Harvard’s title as the oldest college in the country, and Princeton University’s ties to Founding Fathers like President James Madison.
«If James Madison had come to college here, I would never shut up about it, right? Frederick Douglass spoke on our campus twice. I never shut up about that,» he said.
Arnn cited how the first Trump administration investigated Princeton after figures there publicized its supposed racist structures.
«[Madison] personally took pride in the fact they had kept the word ‘slave’ out of the Constitution, because although they had to make a compromise and not abolish it in certain ways, and that compromise is for a very big reason,» he said.
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Harvard University has been the subject of criticism over its response to antisemitic protests. (Reuters)
«The problem is, we have a set of principles that are perfect, but we will never serve them perfectly,» said Arnn. «[T]he attempt to do so can do a lot of harm depending on what the attempt is.»
«My suggestion [to Harvard] would be to go in the right direction. It’s written in your own history. And you should probably do it with your own resources if you don’t like bureaucrats in Washington telling you what to do,» he said.
In a statement, Harvard President Alan Garber said Harvard will «not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,» and «no government… should dictate what private universities can teach, who they can admit and hire…»
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Radical US mosques honor Iran’s Supreme Leader’s ‘martyrdom’ with memorial services, eulogy: ‘Our leader’

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Two United States-based mosques that have faced scrutiny for their ties to Iran held formal events to «honor» Ayatollah Khamenei after U.S. military forces took out the Islamic leader of Iran this weekend, including one mosque in Northern Virginia that referred to Khamenei as «our leader.»
Located in Manassas, Virginia, and Dearborn Heights, Michigan, the mosques both publicly advertised events eulogizing the slain leader. In a flyer for the «Potluck Iftar» honoring Khamenei, which is a ceremony where Muslims break their Ramadan fast, the Manassass Mosque, which has faced questions over alleged ties to Iran, referred to Khamenei as «our leader.» Meanwhile, at the Islamic House of Wisdom (IHW) in Dearborn Heights, which has also faced scrutiny over its ties to Iran, the center’s Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi called the U.S. military offensive «evil» and argued that it was based on false-pretenses.
«You promised that America First, and now we ended up to have Netanyahu first,» the Michigan-based Imam told his congregants after the attacks this weekend. «Now we realize that all their talk about nuclear [unintelligible] was a joke, it didn’t even exist. From the beginning talking about regime change, we want to change, because we don’t like it. So, starting an illegal – illegal war – and then go and bomb the house of the leader of the country. Where is justification for this? Where is their reason for this, at all?»
A worshiper enters the Islamic House of Wisdom located in Dearborn Heights, Michigan. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)
The Michigan-based Islamic worship center and its Imam also touted talking points from Iranian state media and officials that have not yet been confirmed, claiming hundreds of young girls were killed by a missile strike on a school in Iran. Hossein Kermanpour, a spokesperson for Iran’s health ministry, said Saturday that 60 young children were killed and 80 injured, but by Sunday Iranian officials were saying the death toll had risen to about 150, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) posted on X on Monday that the alleged death toll was now as high as 168.
According to The Guardian, Captain Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for U.S. Central Command, indicated they were «aware of reports concerning civilian harm resulting from ongoing military operations,» adding that, «We take these reports seriously and are looking into them.»
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«Why a school? Why not a military base or a missile base? They attack children first. It’s a form of their – again, call me crazy – but child sacrifice,» said a speaker at the IHW’s Ramadan program, who gave a speech alongside Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi. «This is a war against justice, against morality, against legality, against truth,» Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi added as he was speaking to his followers.
«Now we realize that all their talk about nuclear [unintelligible] was a joke, it didn’t even exist. From the beginning talking about regime change, we want to change, because we don’t like it,» the Imam continued.

On March 1, 2026, in Sana’a, Yemen, pro-Iran protesters brandish billboards depicting the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei, flags of Yemen and Iran, weapons, and chant slogans at a rally held to condemn the U.S.-Israel aerial attacks on Iran and the killing of Khamenei and several military officials. (Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)
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Both the Manassas Mosque and the IWH were listed in a July 2023 letter that Congressional Republicans sent to former Attorney General Merrick Garland and former Director of National Intelligence during the Biden administration, Avril Haines. The letter called out a network of U.S.-based mosques throughout the country that have received financial funding from the Alavi Foundation, which lawmakers said «is a large foundation that has been in litigation for years because of allegations it operates on behalf of the Iranian regime, a state sponsor of terrorism,» or have other close ties to the Iranian regime.
«The Imam of IHW, Mohammad Ali Elahi, served as the head of ‘political ideology’ for the Iranian Navy in the 1980s, according to a publicly available Central Intelligence Agency report.» the letter asserts. «He personally claims to be ‘friends’ with three former Iranian Presidents, and since moving to the US, he has had seemingly non-stop contact with senior regime officials.»

Imam Mohammad Ali Elahi leads a prayer at the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, on October 18, 2024. Lebanese-Americans in the Detroit suburbs, watching with horror the unfolding devastation of the war in the Middle East, are contemplating denying Kamala Harris their votes to punish her administration for its support for Israel. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)
The letter, which included concerns also laid out in a report drafted by the George Washington University Program on Extremism, adds that IHW has been «a significant purveyor of extremist propaganda, in line with the Iranian regime’s views.»
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The Manassas Mosque was among the groups that received financial funding from the Alavi Foundation, reportedly totaling around $200,000. The mosque has also reportedly been gifted expensive relics from the Iranian regime, and alleged video of the inside reportedly shows the worship center filled with pictures of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) «martyrs» killed in Syria, a life-size cut-out of Khamenei and Iranian flags or other symbols.
Fox News Digital reached out to both mosques, but neither returned requests for comment in time for publication.
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US casualties rise to 6 following Iranian retaliation for massive strikes

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Six American military service members have been killed amid Iran’s retaliation over U.S. and Israeli attacks over the weekend, officials said Monday.
The U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, said U.S. forces recently recovered the remains of two previously unaccounted for service members from a facility that was struck during Iran’s initial attacks in the region.
«Major combat operations continue. The identities of the fallen are being withheld until 24 hours after next of kin notification,» a CENTCOM post on X states.
Following U.S. attacks that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Tehran launched a series of strikes on U.S. military bases in Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arab, as well as against Israel.
On Monday, Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said more U.S. troops were headed toward the Middle East amid escalations by Iran.
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A U.S. Navy fighter jet on an aircraft carrier. U.S. Central Command on Monday said six American military service members have been killed in Iranian strikes. (U.S. Central Command)
The U.S. mission in Iran, Caine said, is to «prevent Iran from (the) ability to project power outside its borders.»
War Secretary Pete Hegseth said the mission is to prevent Tehran from producing a nuclear weapon, as well as destroying some of its military capabilities.
Over the weekend, Iran had 11 ships in the Gulf of Oman where it has disrupted commercial shipping, CENTCOM said, but that number declined to zero by Monday.
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«The Iranian regime has harassed and attacked international shipping in the Gulf of Oman for decades. Those days are over,» it said. «Freedom of maritime navigation has underpinned American and global economic prosperity for more than 80 years. U.S. forces will continue to defend it.»
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