In the annals of campus presumption, this latest news takes some kind of cake. Various student groups at Harvard who are united in their hatred of Israel, and in their solidarity with those who wish to destroy the Jewish state and replace it with a twenty-third Arab state, have just issued an ultimatum to President […]
Harvard President Finally Starts Making Sense
No doubt it was both the threat of deep-pocketed alumni withholding donations, and the realization of just how far the antisemitism had spread on campus, where pro-Hamas students have defended the atrocities committed on October 7 as legitimate “resistance,” that led Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard, to issue her latest, belated statement on anti-Israel […]
Harvard president, in her first statement on the war, offers moral equivalence and bromides
The Hamas murders reverberated on college campuses, mostly from pro-Palestinian student groups that were outspoken in their support of Hamas. At Harvard, 33 student groups, most but not all consisting of Muslim members, declared in a joint letter their solidarity with, and support for, Hamas. After this there was a backlash, headed by hedge fund […]