The Trump administration on Wednesday challenged Harvard University’s accredited status due to accusations that the school violated federal civil rights laws in its handling of antisemitism on campus.

The White House has taken a bold step against Harvard University, threatening its accreditation status following allegations of civil rights violations. On Wednesday, the administration criticized Harvard's accreditation,

Harvard is "in violent violation" of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, the federal government’s Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism said Monday in a letter threatening to cut all the university's federal funding if changes aren't made.

The actions were taken in the name of antisemitism, as the Trump administration claimed Harvard failed to protect Jewish students, particularly in the wake of the war in Gaza. Harvard rejected the administration’s demands and set the stage for a historic showdown.

A congressional committee is scrutinizing universities across the country for how they’ve handled student and faculty actions over the war in Israel.

Jewish and Israeli students had sued the school, saying they faced severe and pervasive discrimination on campus.

Will Federal Cuts Force the Ivory Tower to Crumble? Harvard University is grappling with a potential billion-dollar deficit in its annual operating budget, a crisis ignited by the Trump administration's dramatic cuts to federal funding.

Harvard Divinity School refused to publish this year’s commencement speech after one of its speakers went off-script to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza, as The Intercept reported last month. Now, The Intercept is publishing recent Divinity School graduate Zehra Imam’s part of the speech for the first time.