Basking in the adulation of MAGA loyalists, the same task force that cut $400m from Columbia University for a perceived pro-Palestine posture is now reviewing $255 million in contracts and $8.7 billion in grant commitments to Harvard.

The world’s top-ranked university is now under review by the US antisemitism task force, with scrutiny of dozens of other universities likely to follow.

In anticipation of the scrutiny, Harvard last week announced that Professor Cemal Kafadar, the head of its Centre for Middle Eastern Studies would be stepping down, following criticism that programming had been antisemitic.