Nigeria, Sept. 4 -- A federal judge in Boston has overturned the Trump administration's decision to cut at least $2.6 billion in research grant funding for Harvard University.

The judge, Allison Burroughs, ruled on Wednesday in favour of Harvard that the Trump administration was using antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted assault against the school.

Ms Burroughs, of the US District Court in Boston, identified the US government's actions as mainly "ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities."

"We must fight against antisemitism, but we equally need to protect our rights, including our right to free speech, and neither goal should nor needs to be sacrificed on the altar of the other," the judge noted. ...