The Palestine Solidarity Committee at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harvard-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard University</a> was suspended from campus activities – and responded to that suspension by setting up a &#8220;Gaza solidarity encampment&#8221; in defiance of the school administration.
The official X account for National Students for Justice in Palestine shared video of the student protesters swarming Harvard Yard — which was roped off in advance of protests that took place over the weekend.
&#8220;Incredible video from @HarvardPSC,&#8221; the caption read. &#8220;Just yesterday, Harvard University placed the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) under suspension. Less than 24 hours later, students launched a Gaza solidarity encampment. THE MORE THEY TRY TO SILENCE US THE LOUDER WE WILL BE.&#8221;
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Incredible video from <a href="https://twitter.com/HarvardPSC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HarvardPSC</a> 
Just yesterday, Harvard University placed the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) under suspension. Less than 24 hours later, students launched a Gaza solidarity encampment. 
THE MORE THEY TRY TO SILENCE US THE LOUDER WE WILL BE <a href="https://t.co/SnWTuiAan7">pic.twitter.com/SnWTuiAan7</a>
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The group, according to <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/23/harvard-psc-suspended/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Crimson</a>, had been ordered as of Monday to &#8220;cease all organizational activities for the remainder of the Spring 2024 term,&#8221; and students who defied that order were reportedly threatened with possible expulsion.
The PSC had been placed on probation in March, The Crimson reported, adding that school administrators had gone through with the suspension after the group had failed to &#8220;register&#8221; a Friday protest and had &#8220;violated protest guidelines regarding responsible use of space.&#8221;
&#8220;The organization will not be recognized and will not have access to university benefits and services during this time, including but not limited to use of campus space and appropriate use of the Harvard name,&#8221; the email informing the PSC of their suspension stated. &#8220;If the organization continues to operate and commits additional violations during this suspension, the organization risks permanent expulsion, as provided in the Resource Guide.&#8221;
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The PSC released a statement in response to the suspension, claiming that they had endured &#8220;months of administrative repression, harassment and stalking by our own peers, and intimidation from right-wing politicians and donors.&#8221;
&#8220;After standing idly by as pro-Palestine students faced physical and cyber harassment, death threats and rape threats, and racist doxxing, Harvard has now decided to dismantle the only official student group dedicated to the task of representing the Palestinian cause,&#8221; the group complained.

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The Daily Wire caught up with policy analyst and author Carrie Sheffield to talk with her about her new book &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Motorhome-Prophecies-Journey-Healing-Forgiveness/dp/1546004386/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1MCPY1LY9G6BK&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.U6jLnuG0UcJjuJ69YTShvcQr6Ezo_ux8egpxy3_tX0obBqozBXOQNMUa7_8fEazolWcS-NOWXGIsih85r2eeNz9V1jGTrnR4mSUZ_fIVhexCclFVtHgIjULyOD7pCboqgN_6orCmPsl-M5S082BZjA.v0WeUS8vwaUdtnuSzFCJH91q6PUV9wLYp4UlOmSaUR0&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=motorhome+prophecies&amp;qid=1713538529&amp;sprefix=motorhome%2Caps%2C93&amp;sr=8-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness,</a>&#8221; (CenterStreet/Hachette Book Group).
DW: Let’s start with politics. You’ve served as a policy analyst and columnist for several years now, both in New York and in Washington. Which issues are paramount in your mind as we head into the 2024 presidential election season?
Sheffield: Certainly the economy and immigration are top of mind for many voters, including me. The fact that inflation has ravaged household wages is an ongoing and pervasive problem. The fact that average monthly mortgage payments under Biden have skyrocketed means real pain and the dream of home ownership moves out of reach for more American families. Seeing our border towns and cities like New York and Chicago overrun with sanitation issues and safety problems due to Biden’s failed immigration policies is discouraging and must be stopped.
DW: Speaking of presidents, in “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Motorhome-Prophecies-Journey-Healing-Forgiveness/dp/1546004386/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1MCPY1LY9G6BK&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.U6jLnuG0UcJjuJ69YTShvcQr6Ezo_ux8egpxy3_tX0obBqozBXOQNMUa7_8fEazolWcS-NOWXGIsih85r2eeNz9V1jGTrnR4mSUZ_fIVhexCclFVtHgIjULyOD7pCboqgN_6orCmPsl-M5S082BZjA.v0WeUS8vwaUdtnuSzFCJH91q6PUV9wLYp4UlOmSaUR0&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=motorhome+prophecies&amp;qid=1713538529&amp;sprefix=motorhome%2Caps%2C93&amp;sr=8-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Motorhome Prophecies</a>” you write that your father was convinced he was a Mormon prophet destined to become president of the United States. Looking back, how did that influence the way your family lived?
Sheffield: Yes, my dad claimed that he’d be U.S. president one day. He also made some unproven claims, like President Reagan designating MLK Jr. Day because of my dad’s work supporting Dr. King’s messages and that his political essays influenced then-Speaker Newt Gingrich to impeach Bill Clinton.
Politics was in my dad’s blood because his father had been a successful Utah state lawmaker. He was also former chairman of the Salt Lake City Zoning and Planning Commission for 25 years. That his firstborn son would follow him into politics wasn’t too far-fetched.
My dad’s beliefs about his destiny absolutely motivated our nationwide travels in a street musical orchestra attracting listeners and then passing out patriotic and religious brochures. But the proselytizing came at an expensive price — his kids’ mental health and happiness. Multiple siblings have attempted suicide, two developed schizophrenia (it’s well documented that schizophrenia’s onset is exacerbated by childhood trauma), and I struggled with periodic suicidal ideation, depression, PTSD, and anxiety because of our dad’s zealotry.
Despite the negative aspects, dad gave me a deep love of our exceptional country, of intellectual inquiry, and beautiful music. Though we’ve had many disagreements, I know in his heart he has a deep desire to serve others through his work. I think his love of country in some ways blinded him to his personal life’s failures. That is a common fatal flaw for public servants. Children of politicians often experience abandonment problems as adults. Each generation must recognize and heal our own hurts.
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DW: “Motorhome Prophecies” is written in the vein of famous memoirs like “Hillbilly Elegy” by J.D. Vance, “The Glass Castle” by Jeanette Walls, and “Educated” by Tara Westover, all stories of young Americans growing up in very broken families. Yet each author is somehow able to escape and overcome their childhood trauma and find success as an adult. What were some factors that helped you overcome your childhood?
Sheffield: Necessity is the mother of invention. I knew that if I wanted a better life than the dark, dangerous one around me I needed to be resourceful, pragmatic and humble enough to ask for help. The bravest thing I&#8217;ve done took place when I was 18. In terms of the initial departure, here&#8217;s a passage from the book, it was actually my schizophrenic brother&#8217;s sexual assault and attempted rape that spurred me to start the process of leaving:
<blockquote>It would prove a long winding path, but Peter’s assault eventually became a catalyst for me to scrutinize my faith, to pray for God’s protection and guidance, and, eventually, to reject Ralph’s false prophecies and run away from home. I’m the fifth oldest sibling, but I was the first to escape the clutches of The Mission. That harrowing night back in 2000 taught me a lesson that would be reinforced time and again: life’s most wrenching crucibles can propel us to our greatest moments of growth and freedom.</blockquote>
I pushed myself to achieve in my career and work in public policy because I wanted a better life for myself than remaining trapped in a violent and impoverished environment. Also, as a woman, I wanted to bask in the freedoms denied my mother and myself as the first girl with four older brothers.
Early on, I also felt a sense of jaded insecurity that fueled my ambition. I wanted to prove my dad wrong. He prophesied that I&#8217;d be raped and murdered if I left the cult. I decided I&#8217;d soar to career heights surpassing his own. It’s a toxic, unstable motivation, to prove someone wrong, and it eventually comes crashing down.
Another reason I left was that I&#8217;d undertaken a long-term investigation into my dad and found his handwritten prophecies were in direct opposition to the teachings of the official LDS Church&#8217;s hierarchy.
For many years I struggled. I would paint myself in these absolutist black and white terms, that my dad was evil and that I was a hero for escaping. Today, though, I know I am not the hero of this book, but I am also not the villain. God is the hero, and though I thought my father was the villain, I now see he was crushed by severe religious zealotry sparked by mental illness after suffering sexual assault as a toddler. He also suffered through the death of his childhood best friend which led to enduring isolation. He’s just as deserving of God’s mercy and compassion as I am. I love my father and am sorry I waited so long to forgive him. I believe forgiving him earlier would have stopped me from some toxic self-sabotaging that I did to cope with the trauma.
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DW: Your book deals a lot with mental illness. Authors like Abigail Shrier and Jonathan Haidt have also written books this year on young people struggling with mental illness. It seems to be a growing problem. Why do you think it&#8217;s a common thread and what are the broader takeaways found in &#8220;Motorhome Prophecies”?
Sheffield: Certainly depression and suicide are rising, and this is troubling. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late last year released <a href="https://thedispatch.acemlna.com/lt.php?s=b497b0dace4b29102719b273346a3dbb&amp;i=2147A2461A1A75103" target="_blank" rel="noopener">provisional data</a> showing nearly 50,000 people committed suicide in the United States in 2022. This nearly 3% increase from 2021 is the highest number ever recorded and the highest rate since 1941 — the aftershocks of the Great Depression. It’s nearly 17 times the number of people killed in the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
Gen Z is far more secular than their parents were when they were young, and I think it’s no coincidence Gen Z is also suffering far greater isolation and mental illness. This is a trend we can and must reverse. People who attend religious services at least weekly are significantly less likely to die “deaths of despair”— suicide, drug overdose, or alcohol poisoning, <a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/regularly-attending-religious-services-associated-with-lower-risk-of-deaths-of-despair/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to 2020 research</a> from Harvard University’s School of Public Health. A literature review appearing in Psychiatric Times <a href="https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/religion-spirituality-and-mental-health">reported</a>: “Of 93 observational studies, two-thirds found lower rates of depressive disorder with fewer depressive symptoms in persons who were more religious. … a review of 134 studies that examined the relationships between religious involvement and substance abuse [concluded that] 90% found less substance abuse among the more religious.”
Ironically, research from the <a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-50618-001">Psychology of Religion and Spirituality</a> found atheism correlates with <a href="https://www.psypost.org/new-psychological-research-links-atheism-to-emotional-suppression/">emotional suppression</a>. Psychology professors (along with biologists) are least likely among all disciplines to believe in God, <a href="https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2007/07/faculty-faith-html#:~:text=A%20professor's%20field%20of%20research,%2C%20economists%2C%20and%20political%20scientists.">Harvard reported.</a> The journal Sociology of Religion <a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/epiphenom/2009/05/psychologists-are-least-religious-of.html">similarly found</a> that psychologists are the least religious of American professors. This is a troubling combination. The same trained experts ordained to heal mental disorders are sometimes the very ones who are skeptical of rescuing balm.
A recovered agnostic, I experienced the power of faith to heal my own mental health, as I recount in my book. The biggest hurdle I needed to overcome was comprehending the difference between man-made abuse and healthy faith in God.
DW: Eventually you went to college and ended up at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. How did your worldview change while in Cambridge?
Sheffield: I became more aware of the narratives around “privilege” being crafted at places like Harvard. I gained a sense of understanding perhaps their altruistic impulse — indeed, our country had sexism, slavery, and Jim Crow as stains in our history. But eventually, I came to realize that good intentions do not equal good outcomes.
At Harvard, I also became more entrenched as an agnostic, which is sad because Harvard was founded to help clergy grow their intellectual capacity to teach the mind of God. Around 7 years after I graduated, during my Christian conversion process, the more I studied science, including metaphysics, history, anthropology, and other disciplines, the more my faith in God and my confidence in Christianity grew. Studying Christianity felt like uncovering buried treasure discarded by intellectuals at places like Harvard who had discounted its scientific and philosophical heft.
DW: You’ve written many articles over the years for various periodicals, but this is your first time writing a full-length book. What was the process like for you?
Sheffield: Writing a 90,000 word book is indeed a far heavier lift than a news article. I tell people who ask advice for writing a memoir to begin a journal today if they don’t already. This memoir genre was made far easier for me because I’ve got a stack of journals to assist. I’ve kept a journal since age 8 because journaling is strongly encouraged in the LDS Church and Mormon diaspora community due to strong cultural appreciation of genealogy and family history — the LDS Church has more than 2 billion records in its genealogy database. Also, as a newer faith, we know many things about its early origins due to contemporaneous journals. As a journalist, the personal journals made the process far easier for accuracy — I didn’t have to make up what I was thinking, I knew directly.

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In a sudden reversal, Harvard College will reinstate its standardized testing requirement, meaning students will once again have to take the SAT or ACT to be accepted.
The surprise decision <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/11/harvard-sat-act-admissions-requirement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comes</a> after Harvard previously said it would remain test-optional through the class of 2030. The Ivy League school first introduced the test-optional policy during the pandemic.
The new policy means any undergraduate applicants who were not planning on taking a test may have to work quickly to get their tests scheduled before the application deadlines later this year.
“Standardized tests are a means for all students, regardless of their background and life experience, to provide information that is predictive of success in college and beyond,” Harvard&#8217;s Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Hopi Hoekstra said in a <a href="https://www.fas.harvard.edu/2024/04/11/return-to-required-testing/">statement</a>.
“More information, especially such strongly predictive information, is valuable for identifying talent from across the socioeconomic range,” Hoekstra said. “With this change, we hope to strengthen our ability to identify these promising students.”
The decision also comes after several other Ivy League universities, Yale, Dartmouth, and Brown brought back their testing requirement as well. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology also <a href="https://news.mit.edu/2022/stuart-schmill-sat-act-requirement-0328" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reinstated</a> its standardized test requirement back in 2022.
At least two Ivy Leagues, however, have <a href="https://admissions.cornell.edu/policies/standardized-testing-policy#:~:text=Cornell%20University%20Extends%20Test%2DOptional,SAT%20or%20ACT%20exam%20scores." target="_blank" rel="noopener">extended</a> their test-optional policy — Cornell and Columbia, which said its new policy is <a href="https://www.highereddive.com/news/columbia-university-becomes-first-ivy-league-institution-to-go-permanently/643947/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">permanent</a>.
Despite optional testing, the majority of Harvard undergrads have submitted standardized test scores anyway, the school said.
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In announcing the new testing policy, Harvard referenced a Harvard-affiliated study that found SAT scores are a stronger predictor of college success than a high school student&#8217;s grade point average.
After COVID restrictions were lifted, Ivy League schools were criticized for extending the suspension of their test requirement. At the same time, others praised the move saying it could help more minorities get accepted to prestigious schools.
The argument that standardized testing hurts minority students has become more popular in recent years.
In 2020, the entire 10-school University of California system <a href="https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/university-california-board-regents-unanimously-approved-changes-standardized-testing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> to permanently get rid of standardized tests. The move came after a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/10/us/sat-act-uc-lawsuit.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> from students claiming the tests are racist and biased against disabled students. New York University, George Washington University, and University of Chicago have also joined the ranks of those that <a href="https://www.uopeople.edu/blog/colleges-that-dont-require-sat-or-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allow</a> students to skip the tests.
However, others argue the tests actually help minority students.
Harvard economist David Deming, one of the economists behind the Harvard study, <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/11/harvard-sat-act-admissions-requirement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the tests are the “fairest admissions policy for disadvantaged applicants.”
“Not everyone can hire an expensive college coach to help them craft a personal essay. But everyone has the chance to ace the SAT or the ACT,” Deming said.

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elise-stefanik" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elise Stefanik</a> (R-NY) slammed Harvard University in a letter on Thursday for failing to take action against anti-Semitism and siding with “those who hate Jewish students.”
“This institution has failed time and time again to take steps to properly address this scourge and hold perpetrators accountable,” Stefanik, who is a Harvard alumna, wrote in a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/04.11.24-Letter-to-Harvard435287.pdf">letter</a> to its interim president. “Your actions have continued to disgrace this institution and threaten the safety of the students you claim to serve.”
“At a time when support and applications for Harvard have fallen, university leadership has continuously chosen to side with those who hate Jewish students and faculty and failed to keep them safe,” Stefanik added.
Stefanik’s letter cited the school&#8217;s failure to take immediate action after an October 18 “die-in” at Harvard Business School, during which student activists displayed a sign with the genocidal anti-Israel slogan “from the river to the sea” and assaulted a student filming.
“During this event, an Israeli Harvard Business School student recorded the act and was quickly surrounded by a mob of anti-Israel protestors who assaulted and harassed him,” Stefanik wrote. “These assailants blocked his path, repeatedly grabbed him, and shouted &#8216;Shame! Shame! Shame!&#8217; at him.&#8221;
Following the incident, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce — of which Stefanik is a member — obtained <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/20240322-March-Letter-to-Katya-Jestin_Redacted31865627.pdf">documents</a> showing that the law firm Harvard hired to conduct an investigation shared video evidence of the incident with the victim’s lawyers in January.
Despite the video evidence, one of the accused assailants is scheduled to graduate in May 2024, the same month of a now-postponed court date.
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“Due to this postponement, the assailant will gain the lifelong distinction of being an alumnus of Harvard despite having committed a well-documented antisemitic hate crime against a fellow student,” Stefanik wrote. “Justice for this incident should have been served quickly, and the delay of justice that specifically allows an antisemitic student to graduate is an affront to accountability and demonstrates the cultural rot of Harvard University&#8217;s leadership that has allowed antisemitism to continue.”
In a statement provided after publication of this article, a Harvard spokesman said the student is not set to graduate in the spring, but declined to give a detailed explanation.
Stefanik went on to reference her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elise-stefanik-harvard-president-claudine-gays-resignation-was-long-overdue">December interaction</a> with former Harvard president Claudine Gay, who said it depends on the context if calling for the genocide of Jews constitutes harassment.
“In front of Congress, when disgraced former Harvard Presdient Claudine Gay failed to denounce antisemitism and calls for genocide, she also claimed ‘disciplinary process are underway’ against perpetrators of antisemitism,” Stefanik’s letter states. “This has proven to be false, with Harvard producing no evidence of punishment against those who have committed crimes and violated Harvard’s code of conduct.”
The congresswoman also cited an incident first reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-employee-harasses-jewish-student-suing-school-for-anti-semitism-asks-to-debate-9-11-conspiracies">The Daily Wire</a> concerning Harvard employee Gustavo Espada challenging a Jewish student — who is suing the university over antisemitism — to a debate about whether Israel is responsible for 9/11.
“I invite you to debate me today at the Cambridge Street overpass 12-1, don’t miss it!” the financial systems coordinator for the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations wrote. “If you don’t show up I will use a puppet or potted plant to represent you!”
After The Daily Wire asked Gustavo for comment, he posted a video to TikTok holding a toy machete claiming he is ready to fight. “I’m not going to go into details, but this is a good plan. So if you follow us, this is what’s happening,” he says in Spanish before photos of various high-profile Jews and a screenshot of a tweet by the Jewish student.
“This recent case of Harvard protecting those who hate Jews is disgusting,” the New York congresswoman continued. “As an alumna of Harvard University, allowing this student to gain the title of Harvard graduate disgraces all who have come before him and erodes the distinction of a once sought after degree.”
The Daily Wire has extensively covered rising anti-Semitic and anti-Israel incidents at Harvard, including a student push to pass <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/radical-harvard-students-set-to-skirt-bylaws-to-hold-anti-israel-referendum-vote">divestment resolutions</a>, a contractor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-harvard-employee-flips-out-after-he-was-caught-ripping-down-israeli-hostage-posters">ripping down</a> hostage posters, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/embattled-un-official-doubles-down-at-harvard-says-israel-has-no-right-to-self-defense">events with speakers</a> who justified the October 7 massacre.
This piece was updated with a statement from Harvard.

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Anti-Israel student activists at Harvard University are pushing forward with a referendum on whether the school should divest from Israel, a move that may violate rules barring the undergraduate student government from taking positions on global issues.
A petition launched on Tuesday gathered the 195 signatures needed to trigger a college-wide referendum in just three hours, according to the <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/10/divestment-petition-israel-palestine/">Harvard Crimson</a>. The undergraduate push follows <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-law-students-amend-bylaws-to-enact-secret-ballot-ahead-of-vote-to-boycott-israel">Harvard Law School</a> and Harvard Divinity School’s student governments voting to divest from the Jewish State in recent weeks.
If referendum bylaws are followed and signatures are verified, the vote will be held within three weeks and include the proposed question: “Should Harvard divest from institutions that profit from and/or aid Israel’s war on Gaza and the ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine?”
Two Harvard students told The Daily Wire that the petition is a violation of the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OkwkJenKI9kRywA1fZyyjdSipJ-oiVQ-Ub-R-Z6Cflc/edit#heading=h.rhbc0bvazhl2">student government bylaws</a>, which state the Harvard Undergraduate Association can “not publish statements on world or campus issues/events.” 
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“The HUA’s bylaws, written after the previous student government body <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/4/6/cheng-resigns-uc-president/">was dissolved</a>, in part because of their willingness to issue political statements, prohibits statements on campus or world events,” a Harvard undergraduate told The Daily Wire. “Additionally, HUA resolutions can only be used ‘to set HUA policy,’ and the HUA has no policy regarding Israel or Harvard&#8217;s investment.”
The student, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution from peers, added that it&#8217;s a violation of bylaws to join “political movements” and to use “leading questions.”
&#8220;Harvard leadership has made clear that it opposes calls for a policy of boycotting Israel and its academic institutions,&#8221; a Harvard spokesman said in a statement. &#8220;In the words of former President Bacow, responding to a 2022 editorial in The Harvard Crimson that had endorsed the Boycott, Divest, Sanction movement, &#8216;targeting or boycotting a particular group because of disagreements over the policies pursued by their governments is antithetical to what we stand for as a University,&#8217; and &#8216;academic boycotts have absolutely no place at Harvard, regardless of who they target.'&#8221;
The 195 signature threshold is determined by taking 10 percent of the total number of students that voted in the 2023 Harvard Undergraduate’s Association (HUA) elections, per the bylaws.
“As the university discusses institutional neutrality during a time of genocide, sign NOW to tell Harvard to divest from Israel&#8217;s war crimes against Palestinians,” the anti-Israel student group Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee wrote in an Instagram post with the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C5jO04jpyPX/?img_index=1">petition link</a>.
The post cites reporting from the Harvard Crimson, which found that <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/3/19/harvard-israel-palestine-investments/">Harvard invested</a> $200 million in companies tied to the Israeli Defense Forces and Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria. 
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In a now-deleted post, the group expressed that all signatures will be kept secret and only known to the election commission chair Behruz Mahmadov, two administrators, and the petitioners Shraddha Joshi and Asmer Asrar Safi.
Just four days after Hamas’s deadly attack on Israeli civilians, Safi, a Rhodes Scholar, <a href="https://archive.ph/Sih4e">shared a photo</a> of a former leader of the U.S.-designated terrorist organization Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ghassan Kanafani.
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“Thinking about the words of Ghassan Kanafani as Harvard faces one of its most intense onslaughts of doxxing, intimidation and harassment,” he tweeted. “Here&#8217;s to rejecting occupation and apartheid in the face of everything today.”
A quote from Kanafani was removed from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-hires-24-7-security-to-protect-anti-israel-apartheid-wall-featuring-quote-from-famous-terrorist">Harvard’s anti-Israel “apartheid wall”</a> last week after media attention that the students platformed a man who was linked to the massacre of 26 people—including American tourists—at Ben Gurion airport in 1972, according to the Mossad.
Joshi has a long history of anti-Israel activism and was a member of one of the student groups that co-organized a statement blaming Israel for Hamas’ attack just a day after it happened, <a href="https://canarymission.org/individual/Shraddha_Joshi">according to Canary Mission</a>.
“There should be no surprise in this effort coming as it does from a group that is no longer antisemitic in effect, but antisemitic in their intent, words, and actions,” Harvard Chabad Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi told The Daily Wire. “What remains to be seen is to what degree faculty will continue to remain silent in the face of the rising Jew-hate that is defiantly being promulgated on campus.”
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Another Harvard student said the referendum can intensify “the alienation that Jewish students, particularly those from Israel, have felt since October by signaling to them that they do not have a place in the student body.”
“What is important to note is that on campus the divestment campaign has been framed as one against genocide,” the student added. “The referendum seeks divestment from any organization linked to Israel. There is a prevailing belief, as the petition shows, that even remote support for the Jewish state means support for genocide.”
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The student also asked to remain anonymous because of the belief system that fuels the petition, and because the student fears peers “will use the illusion of the moral high ground to ostracize their classmates in both social and academic circles.”
A University <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/10/divestment-petition-israel-palestine/#:~:text=A%20University%20statement%20released%20last,petition%20to%20officially%20gather%20signatures.">statement</a> released last week said, “Harvard leadership has made clear that it opposes calls for a policy of boycotting Israel and its academic institutions.”
Harvard’s interim president Alan Garber launched working groups last week to explore if and how the university should make statements on political issues. 
“In recent months and years, we have heard clearly that many in our community feel constrained in their ability to express their views on critically important questions,” Garber and Interim Harvard Provost John Manning <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/5/garber-institutional-neutrality-group/">wrote in an email</a>. “More and more members of our community have also asked whether and when the University should use its official voice to address matters of social and political significance.”
UPDATE: This article has been updated to include a statement from Harvard.

Radical Harvard Students Set To Skirt Bylaws To Hold Anti-Israel Referendum Vote

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Harvard University is employing around-the-clock security to protect an anti-Israel “apartheid wall” created by students that features a quote from the leader of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. 
The wall includes various anti-Israel art and a quote from Ghassan Kanafani, the former spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a communist Palestinian terrorist organization known for hijacking aircraft and mass murder. Kanafani was assassinated in Beirut in June of 1972 by the Mossad after being linked to the massacre of 26 people—including American tourists—at Ben Gurion airport two months earlier, <a href="https://www.jns.org/jns/united-kingdom/23/7/9/301202/">according to Jewish News Syndicate</a>. 
&#8220;The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era,&#8221; the Kanafani quote reads.
The guards have been giving the display 24-hour coverage while sporting jackets with a Securitas logo, a security firm that has a <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/30/securitas-retaliation-case-settled/">relationship with</a> Harvard. A Harvard alum who lives near campus told The Daily Wire that one of the security guards started yelling when asked who he was employed by. 
<div id="attachment_719221" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-719221" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-719221" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/4-1024x576.png" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/4-1024x576.png 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/4-300x169.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/4-768x432.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/4.png 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />A Securitas guard protecting Harvard&#8217;s &#8220;apartheid wall.&#8221;</div>
“He thought that we were filming and started yelling at us that we are escalating the situation and that he is going to call his supervisor,” the alum who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of retribution said. “He started walking to the car and then turned around and started yelling that we are going to threaten him in his family, because this is what ‘you people do,’ threaten people and steal their lands.”
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When the alum notified the Harvard Police, they confirmed he worked for a security firm contracted by the school and said that the guard would not return to protect the wall.
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“To pay to have a guard 24/7 protecting a wall that displays statements issued by U.S.-designated terror organizations, and propagates conspiracies against Israel and the Jewish people, and simultaneously not do so to protect posters of hostages whose photos have been hatefully and regularly defaced and vandalized, is bizarre and poor judgment in the extreme,” Harvard Chabad Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi told The Daily Wire. 
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Fliers of Jewish civilians taken hostage by Hamas have been repeatedly vandalized on campus, including last month when a groundskeeper employed by a company contracted by Harvard <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-harvard-employee-flips-out-after-he-was-caught-ripping-down-israeli-hostage-posters">acted aggressively</a> when being confronted for ripping down posters. He was asked to leave campus and will not be assigned to work on campus again, according to a Harvard spokesperson.
In another incident, hostage posters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israel-did-9-11-harvard-campus-littered-with-anti-semitic-graffiti-ahead-of-new-semester">were vandalized</a> with anti-Semitic and 9/11 conspiracy graffiti at the start of this spring semester.
In December, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-does-not-have-our-back-rabbi-slams-university-at-hanukkah-event-attended-by-claudine-gay">Zarchi revealed</a> for the first time that the university told him that he must put away the menorah he lights on campus during Hannukah to avoid vandalism. 
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“The university, since the first Hanukkah, would not allow us to keep this menorah here overnight because there is fear that it will be vandalized,” he said at the time. “We in the Jewish community are instructed, &#8216;We’ll let you have the menorah. You made your point. Okay, pack it up. Don’t leave it out overnight because there will be criminal activity, we fear, and it won’t look good.&#8221;
“It pains me to have to say, sadly, that Jew-hate and anti-Semitism is thriving on this campus,” he added. “26 years I’ve given my life to this community. I’ve never felt so alone.”
Shabbos Kestenbaum, a graduate student who is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jewish-students-sue-harvard-for-failing-to-stop-anti-semitism-while-threatening-discipline-for-fatphobia">suing Harvard</a> over claims of enabling anti-Semitism, said the quote is part of a bigger trend of anti-Jewish hate on the campus.
“It is hardly surprising that the same group of students who interrupt classes to yell about globalizing the intifada, publish and promote anti-Semitic cartoons, and intimidate Jewish students on campus would also be comfortable quoting and glorifying Palestinian terrorism,” he said. 
Harvard University did not respond to a request for comment.

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Harvard Hires 24/7 Security To Protect Anti-Israel ‘Apartheid Wall’ Featuring Quote From Famous Terrorist

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Two Harvard Law students resigned from their student government positions after a resolution to divest from Israel was approved through an unconventional secret ballot vote, hiding the record of who supported the extreme measure.
The resolution, which calls on the Harvard Management Company to divest from Israel over the “genocide of Palestinians” and the “ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine,&#8221; violated the student government’s constitution, according to the two students, Cameron Adkins and Regina De Nigris, who resigned from the government shortly after it passed.
“We voiced our disagreement to the Student Government at every opportunity,” they wrote in their resignation letter. “Our concerns, however, were pushed aside. In light of this disagreement, we believe that our continued membership in the Harvard Law School Student Government would compromise our principles and values.”
The two students cite procedural issues with how the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-law-students-amend-bylaws-to-enact-secret-ballot-ahead-of-vote-to-boycott-israel">resolution vote</a> was undertaken through an anonymous Google form and accuse their former fellow representatives of pushing the change through during an emergency meeting without letting students express their opinions. 
“The resolution has been pushed through at the last possible minute to avoid running up against the end of this Student Government’s term, and, perhaps, to insulate Student Government from receiving contrary input,” they wrote. “Given the importance of the issue, rushing this process is particularly inappropriate and unacceptable.”
According to the <a href="https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/studentgovernment/">student government website</a>, its goal is to “make sure that HLS is more fun and inclusive than we found it.”
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The student government members will be replaced by incoming recently-elected representatives next week.
Student body co-president Swap Agrawal said the secret vote was to “address concerns regarding doxxing and harassment.” 
The resolution passed with 12 in favor, 3 opposed, and 3 abstaining. The only two known votes are from De Nigris and Adkins, who were two of the three votes against the resolution. 
Student government <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240327020058/https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/studentgovernment/members/">members</a> Robert Kim, Marissa Thomas, Tony Maquiling, Pat Healy, Aliye Korucu, Mackenzie Saunders, Tori Borlase, Connor Morgan, Felicia Caten-Raines, Dee Um, Hannah Chi, Katelyn Turner, Amanda Harrison, Kayla Hollingsworth, Vincent Okonkwo, Ojadamola Takuro, and Deyaa Alrwishdi did not respond to inquiries on their votes.
The Harvard Jewish Law Students Association said the resolution will “divide and alienate” in a statement <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C5GiP2XuRvQ/">posted to their Instagram account</a>.
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“In total darkness, they set out to target the state of Israel without even notifying the leadership of Jewish or Israeli communities on campus,” the group wrote. “Demonizing Israel displays a callous disregard for the identities of so many Jewish and Israeli students at Harvard- by passing this resolution, student government asks the campus and the world to assume that those who have any connection to Israel are villainous.&#8221;
&#8220;This resolution is beyond just procedurally and substantively offensive: it is antisemitic,” the Jewish student group said.
The resolution accuses Israel of maiming, killing, and starving Palestinians in a “genocidal campaign” and calls upon the Harvard Management Company to “divest completely from weapons manufacturers, firms, academic programs, corporations, and all other institutions that aid the ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine and the genocide of Palestinians.”
Following the announcement of its passage, anti-Israel student groups held a last-minute victory celebration with cake and speeches in the student lounge on campus, a violation of Harvard policy.
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“We can’t expect Harvard to step away from its bloodlust on its own accord because war is profitable,” a student said during one of the speeches posted to Instagram. “These so-called leaders of this institution would be best served to listen to what we have to say because one day, when we win, and Palestine is free, they will come crawling back. They will be begging us to rewrite history.”
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Anti-Israel Harvard Law students celebrated with cake after the student gov voted to divest from Israel with a secret ballot.
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In the middle of the celebration, another emergency meeting was called over the procedural concerns, and another vote was taken to determine if procedure was followed after intense debate. Student Maya Husseini said, &#8220;Brats are upset they didn&#8217;t get their way&#8221; after Jewish students raised concerns, according to Stop Antisemitism. Another anonymous vote was taken, and the students upheld the resolution.
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“I do not believe that it is the role of a student government to make blanket or unilateral statements on contentious issues that impact every student differently,” Adkins, who was able to resume his position for the second vote before his resignation went into effect, said. “Because the student government is not fully representative of our diverse student body, it is our job to remain neutral, offer support to all students, and avoid alienating or endorsing any particular viewpoints on campus.”
Harvard did not respond to a request for comment.

Harvard Law Students Resign From Student Govt Over Secret Ballot Anti-Israel Vote

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Harvard Law School’s student government is actively voting on a resolution to boycott Israel through a secretive online ballot, a departure from bylaws that required an in-person recorded vote. 
The resolution, which can only be voted on through an anonymous Google survey by members by Friday at 8:00 a.m., calls on all Harvard institutions to divest from entities that have a hand in the “occupation of Palestine,” without defining if “Palestine” includes only the West Bank and Gaza or Israel proper as well. 
“Harvard Law School Government calls upon all institutions and organizations within the Harvard community to divest from institutions, weapons manufacturers, firms, academic programs, corporations, and all other institutions that aid the ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine and the genocide of Palestinians,” the resolution states.
In an emergency meeting, the bylaws for the student government were amended earlier this week to permit the secretive vote rather than complying with the usual requirement of voting by roll call or acclamation. 
“Our body decided to proceed via voting by Google form to address concerns regarding doxxing and harassment,” the student government&#8217;s co-president Swap Agrawal wrote in an email to the assistant dean of students obtained by The Daily Wire. “The Student Council voted at the outset of Tuesday’s meeting to amend the bylaws to allow the Student Council to consider and vote on this resolution via a closed and anonymous Google form rather than a public list and in-person roll call.”
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The amendment met the two-thirds threshold for approval by a 12 out of 14 vote. 
The Executive Board of Harvard Law School&#8217;s Alliance for Israel (AFI) slammed the student government for holding the unannounced emergency meeting, and failing to give them notice so they could voice opposition.
“We are deeply disappointed that Alliance for Israel, as an important stakeholder in the community, was not informed about this meeting, nor invited to speak,” the group wrote in a letter, adding that the student government failed to pass any resolution condemning antisemitic attacks on campus or Hamas’s October 7 massacre and rape of Israeli civilians.
“Even if the student government had done all of these things, this resolution would still be wildly inappropriate,” the letter added. “The fact that it has done none of these things makes matters all the worse.”
Shabbos Kestenbaum, a Harvard Divinity School student who is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jewish-students-sue-harvard-for-failing-to-stop-anti-semitism-while-threatening-discipline-for-fatphobia">suing Harvard</a> over claims of enabling anti-Semitism, took issue with the representatives seeing anonymity to avoid accountability.
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“It is simply unacceptable to be an elected student representative on a hotly contentious issue whilst expecting zero accountability for how you vote,” he told The Daily Wire. “If these students, who believe that Israel is an apartheid regime conducting ethnic cleansing, are our future policymakers, Supreme Court justices, and lawyers, then our country is in serious danger.”
The resolution accuses Israel of conducting a “genocidal campaign in Gaza,” ethnically cleansing Palestinians, and occupying “Palestine.”
“Furthermore, claims of an ‘ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine’ implies Israel has no right to exist and threatens its legitimacy,” the AFI letter states. “This resolution, compounded by the student government’s failure to address antisemitism on campus and the violence and suffering Hamas caused Israelis, sends a message to Jews and Israelis that they are not welcome at HLS.”
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The resolution relies upon reporting from the student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, which found that <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/3/19/harvard-israel-palestine-investments/">Harvard invested</a> $200 million in companies tied to the Israeli Defense Forces and Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria. 
To build its case, the resolution cites Harvard’s history of divesting in other situations including from some South African companies and tobacco stocks.
Harvard did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Harvard Law Students Amend Bylaws To Enact Secret Ballot Ahead Of Vote To Boycott Israel

If you’ve been paying attention over the last couple of years, you’ve seen how woke ideologies are ripping through all aspects of society from the K-12 education system to colleges, the military, and our local, state, and federal governments.
If you haven’t been paying attention, Harvard-educated House GOP Chair, Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) thrust this into the spotlight and is finally taking some action. Her brave questioning of several U.S. college presidents in Washington, D.C., exposed the rot that has formed at many of America’s most respected education institutions.
And now this is extending beyond the GOP. Bill Ackman, billionaire and longtime Democrat donor, <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/bill-ackman-war-harvard-mit-dei-claudine-gay.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently told the New York Magazine</a> that his daughter was indoctrinated at Harvard University saying in part &#8220;She became, like, an anti-capitalist. Like practically a Marxist.”
Bill’s comments reflect the pain that many parents from around the nation are feeling who have watched their sons and daughters return home from college not smarter, more cultured, or more business savvy, but brainwashed on many issues that go against the values in which they were raised as children.
What should terrify all parents, is that this is not an uncommon scenario in today’s world where a young man or woman goes off to college with a deep love for America only to come home on spring break with a new mindset: burn America to the ground.
U.C. Berkeley&#8217;s School of Law <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/09/30/uc-berkeley-blasted-for-creating-jewish-free-zones-with-pro-israel-speaker-ban/">allegedly</a> created a “<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/uc-berkeley-law-schools-jew-free-zones-latest-progressive-trend-opinion-1748218">Zionist-free zone</a>&#8221; where anyone who supports Israel is not allowed to enter. On another side of the same campus, Jewish students were recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-uc-berkeley-jewish-students-forced-to-evacuate-after-mob-storms-event-with-idf-soldier" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forced to to barricade</a> themselves inside because of a angry mobs trying to attack them. 
Through a strategic plan to completely infiltrate our education systems, we have seen innocent children grow up to become unrecognizable anarchists on campuses across our nation. What should scare us even more — today’s protesters will become tomorrow’s prosecutors.
And it doesn’t stop there. Innocent, moldable minds that have been hijacked by woke ideology are the future of our healthcare system, government, judicial system, and yes, those in charge of educating generations to come.
President Donald J. Trump has always said, “They aren&#8217;t after me, they are after you.” But it doesn’t stop there — they are after an entire generation.
As a former intelligence officer and prosecutor, this problem is much deeper than meets the eye.
For years, this has been quietly driven by weak college presidents who can’t find the moral courage to unequivocally condemn Anti-Semitism and tenured professors turned political activists with a single mission — to brainwash the minds of our nation’s future.
This hate-filled culture is not enriching life on college campuses. Why are the leaders of higher education allowing this to take root and more importantly, who is funding it?
And it’s not just in higher education where the destructive woke ideologies have taken root. We now see them on full display in the U.S. military where recently, radical U.S. airman, Aaron Bushnell, quite literally<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hamas-praises-far-left-extremist-who-torched-himself-while-screaming-free-palestine" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> set himself on fire</a> outside of the Israeli Embassy in the United States to protest the American government’s support for Israel.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices have transformed into a Marxist value system and the consequences are detrimental and our recruitment is suffering immensely.
Traditionally, the U.S. military has been revered for its focus on meritocracy and unity of purpose. Recruitment was based on the principles of honor, duty, and patriotism, with individuals from diverse backgrounds coming together under the shared goal of defending their country. However, the rise of Marxist initiatives has shifted the focus away from these core principles, prioritizing identity politics over the fundamental qualities necessary for military service.
DEI initiatives have fostered a toxic environment within the military, where divisive identity politics take precedence over unity and cohesion. Rather than fostering a sense of camaraderie and shared purpose, these initiatives have sown discord and resentment among service members, undermining morale and eroding the bonds of trust that are essential for effective teamwork in combat situations.
It is imperative that we recognize the dangers posed by Marxist initiatives all throughout our society and take decisive action to reverse this damaging trend. Instead of focusing on divisive identity politics, we must reaffirm our commitment to meritocracy, unity, and shared purpose.
From all aspects of our education systems to our military to our government leaders, one thing is for sure; woke ideologies are destroying the fabric of our great nation and they must come to an end once and for all.
And in Congress, I will fight to save our children and our national security. I will use all means possible to form a task force to investigate this problem, find out who is funding it and make sure that our youth once again believes in one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/AbrahamHamadeh?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abe Hamadeh</a> is a Trump-endorsed Republican Candidate for Arizona’s 8th Congressional District and former U.S. Army Intelligence Officer.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Harvard University, which has come under fire for its tolerance of anti-Semitism on campus, is welcoming a professor from Rutgers University who has <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CzPWW8_RWnk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Israel is on a “depraved pursuit of wealth and privilege” and also appeared on a panel with a Hamas leader who called Israel an “animal state.”
On March 4, Noura Erakat, an associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University, is <a href="https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/we-charge-genocide-potential-and-limits-international-law">scheduled</a> to give a speech at the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies titled “We Charge Genocide: The Potential and Limits of International Law,” Campus Reform <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/rutgers-professor-appeared-panel-hamas-commander-set-speak-harvard/24910" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>.
In 2020, Erakat joined a panel on an online workshop that also featured Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas leader who <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3325327,00.html">stated</a> in 2006, &#8220;Israel should be wiped from the face of the Earth. It is an animal state that recognizes no human worth. It is a cancer that should be eradicated,” <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/02/24/us-news/rutgers-slammed-for-allowing-antisemitic-talks-to-continue-including-one-from-a-prof-who-appeared-on-panel-with-a-hamas-official/">according</a> to the New York Post.
On February 21, Erakat gave a lecture at Rutgers sponsored by the university’s Center For Security, Race and Rights.
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) ripped Rutgers, <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/02/24/us-news/rutgers-slammed-for-allowing-antisemitic-talks-to-continue-including-one-from-a-prof-who-appeared-on-panel-with-a-hamas-official/">telling</a> the New York Post that, “Rutgers’ continued promotion of notorious antisemites increases the spread of hate speech and the possibility of violence and harassment on campus. While differing views are a crucial part of building cultural understanding, universities cannot provide a bully pulpit for those who seek to divide and spew hate.”
A spokesperson for Canary Mission told Campus Reform:
<blockquote>Rutgers University employs an antisemite who keeps company with a Hamas commander. The continued employment of Noura Erekat by Rutgers undermines their supposed commitment to combating antisemitism. Canary Mission calls on Rutgers to fire Noura Erekat and take a decisive stand against Antisemitism. Harvard hosting Noura Erekat is yet another example of the once great institutions failure in the face of standing up to antisemitism.</blockquote>
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After a December 7 Rutgers event titled “Race, Liberation, and Palestine: A Conversation with Noura Erakat, Nick Estes, and Marc Lamont Hill,” Gottheimer <a href="https://gottheimer.house.gov/posts/release-gottheimer-calls-on-rutgers-university-to-protect-students-and-remove-antisemitic-anti-israel-speakers-from-december-7-event" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>:
<blockquote>At a time when antisemitic acts and violence have been increasing precipitously across the country, especially on college campuses, including at Rutgers, providing these notorious antisemites a space to further promote their well-known, extreme views will further spread hate speech and increase the possibility of violence and harassment on campus.</blockquote>

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Harvard University&#8217;s chief diversity and inclusion officer, accused of rampant plagiarism, is now advising the university&#8217;s task force to combat anti-Semitism, rankling Jewish students who view the obsession with diversity as a root cause of anti-Semitism on campus.
Sherri Ann Charleston, who is Harvard’s first-ever chief diversity officer, is now an <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2024/update-on-presidential-task-forces/">advisor</a> to the Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism, Interim Harvard President Alan M. Garber announced. Charleston was also just last month accused of 40 allegations of plagiarism including in her 2009 dissertation, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/not-just-claudine-gay-harvards-chief-diversity-officer-plagiarized-and-claimed-credit-for-husbands-work-complaint-alleges/">according to the Free Beacon</a>.
Harvard Divinity School student, Shabbos Kestenbaum, who is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jewish-students-sue-harvard-for-failing-to-stop-anti-semitism-while-threatening-discipline-for-fatphobia">currently suing</a> the school for enabling anti-Semitism, told The Daily Wire that he is disappointed with Charleston’s new duty.
“Sherri Charleston is facing more than 40 allegations of severe plagiarism, including data manipulation spanning more than a decade,” he said. “It’s remarkable that rather than disciplining her in a way a student would be disciplined for far less, Charleston is awarded a prestigious position on a Harvard task force.”
Kestenbaum added that DEI is “part of the insidious ideology that justifies and provides a rationale for anti-Semitism.”
“Why would Harvard appoint its highest officer to combat something her office promotes? Would Harvard appoint an oil executive to their climate change study? Would Harvard appoint a racist to their legacies of slavery initiative? Yet once again, Jews at Harvard are not given the same level of respect,” Kestenbaum said. 
Harvard has faced mounting criticism for its actions in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 massacre, including the resignation of former president Claudine Gay who was chastised over her public statements about combating anti-Semitism on campus. Gay later resigned after multiple allegations of plagiarism.
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Kestenbaum said he has emailed the task force more than 30 times, but has never received a response. 
The task force has frustrated many at the Ivy League institution who don&#8217;t believe it will improve conditions for Jewish students. Garber&#8217;s announcement about Charleston also disclosed the resignation of Harvard Business School professor Raffaella Sadun, who joined the task force after it was created. 
“Professor Sadun has expressed her desire to refocus her efforts on her research, teaching and administrative responsibilities at HBS,” Garber wrote in his email. “Her insights and passion for this work have helped shape the mandate for the task force and how it can best productively advance the important work ahead.”
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<a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/2/26/sadun-resigns-taskforce-implementation-concerns/">A report</a> by the Harvard Crimson said Sadun resigned over concerns the school would treat the task force’s recommendations as advice rather than actions to implement. This echoes the December <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rabbi-resigns-from-harvards-anti-semitism-advisory-committee-ignoring-jewish-suffering-is-evil">resignation</a> of Rabbi David J. Wolpe from the anti-Semitism advisory committee — a precursor to the task force — because he didn’t think he made a difference. 
Billionaire Bill Ackman seized the opportunity to take a jab at his alma mater.
“The half life of a ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/Harvard">@Harvard</a>⁩ antisemitism task force member is about 60 days. I wonder what’s going on,” he said. 
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The half life of a ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/Harvard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Harvard</a>⁩ antisemitism task force member is about 60 days. I wonder what’s going on. <a href="https://t.co/uPaozimCCJ">https://t.co/uPaozimCCJ</a>
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“I am grateful to have had the opportunity to help advance the vital work to combat antisemitism and believe that President Garber has assembled an excellent task force,” Sadun wrote in her own statement, <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/2/26/sadun-resignation-antisemitism-taskforce/">reported The Harvard Crimson</a>. “I will continue to support efforts to tackle antisemitism at Harvard in any way I can from my faculty position.”
The task force has faced criticism since its inception for including history professor Derek Penslar for criticism of Israel and minimizing Jew-hatred on campus. The top complaint is Penslar signing an August letter denouncing Israel as an “apartheid regime,” <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/member-of-new-harvard-antisemitism-task-force-signed-letter-calling-israel-apartheid-regime/">reported the Times of Israel</a>.
“American Jews have long been at the forefront of social justice causes, from racial equality to abortion rights, but have paid insufficient attention to the elephant in the room: Israel’s long-standing occupation that, we repeat, has yielded a regime of apartheid,” states the letter.
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In a <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/29/penslar-define-antisemitism/">December op-ed</a>, Penslar wrote that the focus on rising anti-Semitism at Harvard “has obscured the vulnerability of pro-Palestinian students.”
In January, he told <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2024/01/new-harvard-antisemitism-task-force-under-fire-for-controversial-co-chair/">Jewish Insider</a> that outsiders took Harvard’s anti-Semitism problem and “exaggerated its scope.”
<a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/25/penslar-antisemitism-backlash-support/">The Harvard Crimson reported</a> that Penslar considered stepping down due to the backlash.
“Of course anyone would ask themselves if they should continue,” Penslar, a prominent scholar of Jewish history, wrote in a statement. “I am grateful for the outpouring of support I have received from my colleagues and students, and from President Garber, and I remain committed to helping advance the important work of this task force.”

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Harvard University students chanted “Palestine is Arab&#8221; on Monday during an “emergency die-in” protest this week on the Widener Library steps, the latest radical anti-Israel protest at the Ivy League institution.
A student organizer taught students a chant in Arabic which translates to “from water to water, Palestine is Arab,” according to video obtained by The Daily Wire of the protest. It is a more extreme variation of the &#8220;from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free&#8221; chant often used by pro-Palestinian radicals in cities across the United States, and is likewise seen as a call for ethnic cleansing of the Jewish and other non-Arab populations that live in Israel.
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The event was co-hosted by several Harvard student groups and consisted of students chanting and then laying on the stairs.
&#8220;As of 2:30 am, hundreds of people have been martyred or injured by Israeli attacks on Gaza’s last “safe zone,” the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee student group posted to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/harvardpsc/">Instagram</a> advertising the event.  “Harvard has bankrolled this action with its hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for companies complicit in Israeli apartheid, making us as students complicit.”
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Harvard student Shabbos Kestenbaum, who is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jewish-students-sue-harvard-for-failing-to-stop-anti-semitism-while-threatening-discipline-for-fatphobia">currently suing</a> the school for enabling anti-semitism, told The Daily Wire that the chant is part of a bigger pattern of anti-Semitsm at Harvard.
“In the last two weeks, I have had a Harvard employee taunt me with a machete, been removed without warning from a Harvard student forum for suggesting students pressure Hamas to release kidnapped babies, had to walk through an unsanctioned protest with people yelling ‘Palestine will be Arab’ on my way to class, been ignored by Harvard’s DEI committee have anti-Semites being promoted as guest lectures in class, and more,” he told The Daily Wire. 
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“Anti-Semitism is not a problem at Harvard, it is quite literally a feature,” he added.
Harvard University has been under mounting criticism for its response to Hamas’ massacre, including the university parting ways with its former president, Claudine Gay, as she dealt with backlash over her public statements about combatting antisemitism on campus.
Anti-Israel Harvard groups hosted a similar protest last week that was interrupted by Korean Christians who blasted worship music and loudly defended Israel as the students chanted “from the river to the sea.”
“What is happening at Harvard right now is something that is not normal,” the group’s pastor Joseph Kim said through a translator on a blaring microphone next to the anti-Israel protest. “Harvard is broken down, and so liberal…so we’re here to actually heal that.”

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