Goa, April 15 -- The Trump administration has frozen $2.2 billion in federal grants and an additional $60 million in government contracts to Harvard University, citing the institution's refusal to comply with sweeping demands aimed at curbing anti-Semitism on campus.

The freeze was announced by the Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, following Harvard's rejection of a list of federal directives that included shutting down campus diversity offices, revising hiring and admissions policies, and cooperating with immigration authorities on screening international students.

"Harvard's statement today reinforces the troubling entitlement mindset that is endemic in our nation's most prestigious universities and colleges - that federal inv...