Michael Savage, host of “Savage Nation,” on Friday ridiculed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the highest-ranking Jewish lawmaker in the U.S., for supporting Harvard’s lawsuit against the Trump administration for freezing $2.2 billion in federal research funding.

“I’m standing with fellow Jewish @SenateDems to demand Trump stop disgracefully weaponizing antisemitism to attack universities,” Schumer wrote Thursday in a post on X. “He’s failing to address the real problem of antisemitism — instead using this crisis as a pretext to attack those who disagree.”

The Trump administration accused Harvard of not complying to demands to stem the tide of campus antisemitism. Harvard, like many U.S. higher education institutions, has been roiled by antisemitic protests following Iranian-backed Hamas’ terrorist attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel’s military response in the Gaza Strip.

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