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 […]
At Elite Universities, Student Groups Freely Celebrate Hamas
It is the elite universities — Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Stanford, UPenn — that are the worst. It is there that the pro-Palestinian student groups are free to celebrate Hamas, to chant “from the river to the sea, Palestine will soon be free” and to shout their hatred of those who live in the “settler-colonial […]
Harvard’s Arab Alumni Association asks for money for pro-Hamas students’ mental health
It claims they were subjected to “relentless bullying and intimidation” for supporting Hamas. As is so often the case with what happens on university campuses, reality is exactly the opposite. It is pro-Israel students who are subjected to relentless bullying and intimidation on campuses all over the country, from both Leftists and pro-jihad Muslim student […]
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 […]
Harvard Pro-Hamas Students, And Those Who Are Pushing Back
There have been many expressions of support for Hamas on campuses nationwide; universities, of course, are hotbeds of anti-Israel sentiments, nurtured by both far-left faculty and by Palestinian and other Muslim students. But now, at Harvard, some of those students who have been blithely expressing their hatred for Israel, and solidarity with Hamas, are discovering […]
Harvard Student Organizations Rally Round Hamas
An anguished Harvard Law Student, who is Israeli, has posted at Twitter the statement by several dozen pro-Palestinian Harvard Student Organizations, about Gaza being an “open air prison” and why Hamas deserves our support. And she posts as well the list of Harvard Student Organizations, most but not all of them consisting of Muslim students, […]
Harvard makes special accommodations for Ramadan, Muslim students say they’re not enough
Gratitude. “After Ramadan’s Conclusion, Harvard Muslim Students Criticize Religious Accommodations Policy,” by Joey Huang, Makanaka Nyandoro and Tyler J.H. Ory, Harvard Crimson, April 24, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): After Ramadan came to a close Friday, many of Harvard’s Muslim students criticized the College’s religious accommodations policy, citing challenges including a lack of […]
Harvard Caves to Woke Mob, Reinstates Fellowship for Antisemitic Activist
New in PJ Media: If you needed any more proof that our nation’s universities are not any longer institutions of higher learning but radioactive wastelands of far-Left indoctrination, the recent Kenneth Roth/Harvard imbroglio provides it in abundance. Roth, the longtime executive director of Human Rights Watch, recently had a Harvard fellowship rescinded and reinstated after […]
Harvard reverses course, reinstates fellowship for antisemitic activist after pressure from anti-Israel lobby
On Kenneth Roth, see Hugh Fitzgerald’s piece here. Elmendorf says that the reinstatement of this sinister ideologue’s fellowship is about academic freedom, but that’s a lot of hooey. If Harvard believes in academic freedom, let it hire a critic of jihad violence and Sharia oppression of women, or even allow one to speak on campus. […]
Kenneth Roth, Crybaby of the Western World
Kenneth Roth retired last year as the head of Human Rights Watch, where he had been paid the colossal sum of $600,000 a year. He was looking forward to being a fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, figuring that someone of such earth-shaking eminence in the NGO world would have no trouble getting a […]