The Trump administration is attacking higher education institutions in the United States as authoritarian governments seek to quash independent thought, the former president of Harvard University said Wednesday.

The prestigious university is at loggerheads with Trump, who believes Ivy League schools are unaccountable bastions of liberal, anti-conservative bias and anti-Semitism, particularly around the protests against Israel's campaign in Gaza.

Trump has sought to cut more than $2.6 billion of funding to Harvard, and has moved to block entry of international students -- a quarter of its student body.

"The truth here is that our government, the American government, is attacking higher ed and universities," Claudine Gay told the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities

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