POLITICS: Harvard may be free to target Jews — but not on the taxpayers’ dime

Harvard University is thumbing its nose at Team Trump and refusing to take steps to stamp out Jew-hatred and discrimination on its campus.

Fine. Then, let it say good-bye to federal bucks — possibly as much as $9 billion a year’s worth — and start spending its own money instead.

The school, which in 2023 also saw the Supreme Court slap down its discriminatory admissions policies, huffs that it won’t let government “dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”

In truth, Trumpies essentially just want Harvard to comply with civil-rights laws and the top court’s 2023 ruling.

But if the antisemites and racists that hold sway over the Ivy League school refuse to reform, taxpayers have no obligation to keep up funding.

Indeed, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act effectively bans federal funds for schools that discriminate.

In fact, Harvard is a hotbed of leftism, with overwhelmingly left-leaning faculty and staff and a DEI culture that regards Jews, Israel, America and the West as oppressors.

That does neither students nor the nation much good.

Worse, the school employs blatant double standards: It would never, for example, permit the kind of post-Oct. 7 hostility shown to Jews on campus if it were targeted at, say, blacks instead.

Harvard may have a legal right to operate as a leftist bastion hostile to Jews, America and the West.

But US taxpayers don’t have to pay for it.

The Trumpies should to shut Harvard’s federal spigot ASAP.

Let the school tap its $50 billion endowment — and see its reserves shrink, along with donations from alums who now see what they’re giving actually supports.

The sooner these bigots run out of money, the better off everyone else will be.