Harvard and the culture of higher education in general is being criticized for harboring students groups that have endorsed Hamas and condemned Israel.
A Princeton University Professor, Robert P. George, highlighted a pro-Hamas statement condemning Israel signed by 31 Harvard student groups.
31–yes 31–Harvard organizations have declared that the murders, rapes, kidnappings, and other atrocities committed by Hamas against innocent people are in no way the fault of Hamas, but are rather entirely the fault of … Israel. Something is deeply, deeply wrong in academia.
The statement blames Israel for all violence currently unfolding, claimed Palestinians have been forced to live in an “open-air prison” and apartheid regime, and demanded Harvard take the side of Palestinians and actively oppose Israeli retaliation.
Furthermore, Harvard released an official statement on the Israel-Palestine conflict, opaquely titled “War in the Middle East.” In response, several prominent alumni criticized it as lackluster, if not far worse.
“We write to you today heartbroken by the death and destruction unleashed by the attack by Hamas that targeted citizens in Israel this weekend, and by the war in Israel and Gaza now under way.” Read the full statement from University leadership. https://t.co/yXS0cvADes
Former Harvard president and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Lawrence Summers said, “The silence from Harvard’s leadership, so far, coupled with a vocal and widely reported student groups’ statement blaming Israel solely, has allowed Harvard to appear at best neutral towards acts of terror against the Jewish state of Israel.”
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“What the hell is wrong with Harvard?” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who attended Harvard Law School, wrote on X.
“It is abhorrent and heinous that Harvard student groups are blaming Israel for Hamas’ barbaric terrorist attacks that have killed over 700 Israelis,” said Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-RY), Chair of the House Republican Conference.
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Matthew J. Peterson, former editor of The American Mind and current Editor-in-Chief at The Blaze, cited the student groups to expose what he sees as hypocrisies at the highest levels of academia. If the Ivy League universities are most concerned about racial injustice and safe spaces for students, why are they engaging in extreme caution in defending Israel amid the Hamas attacks, and would they be as cautious about unequivocally endorsing Black Lives Matter?
“But you know this already. These institutions were dead and gone long time ago. They are silly and unsalvageable. But as long as people continue to treat them as special they will continue to destroy America,” he wrote.
If, for whatever reason, an unarmed black man was shot by the police and died—something that happens like 9 or 10 times a year in our nation of 330 million people—and it was caught on camera and become a heavily publicized incident with an organized response, EVERY Ivy League…
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