Harvard University has named a leading advocate for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices to a top role with significant influence in choosing the university’s next president.
On Monday, Vivian Hunt, who graduated from Harvard in 1989, was tapped to serve as the next president of the university’s Board of Overseers, according to the <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/16/vivian-hunt-harvard-overseers/">Harvard Crimson</a>. Hunt has sat on the board since 2019. Traditionally, the university’s presidential search committees are composed of the 12 members of the Harvard Corporation and the president of the Board of Overseers. The board can veto any committee pick with a majority vote. 
“Tyler Jacks and I hope to work closely with Interim President Garber and all of our stakeholders to support excellence, inclusion, and world-class leadership in all that we do,” Hunt said in a statement, referencing the board’s vice chair, Tyler Jacks, who served on the presidential search committee that appointed its former president, Claudine Gay.
Gay resigned as president of the university in January after her prior academic work was found tainted with plagiarism. Gay said that the public ire that contributed to her downfall was fueled by “racial animus.” 
Hunt is a leading DEI advocate and critic of “meritocracy.” In 2015 while working at the consulting giant McKinsey, Hunt co-authored a <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/why-diversity-matters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paper</a> titled “Why diversity matters,” which argued that companies with more diverse leadership were more likely to perform better, according to <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/harvard-taps-longtime-dei-advocate-to-help-pick-universitys-next-president/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Free Beacon</a>.
The paper’s findings have been challenged. A <a href="https://econjwatch.org/File+download/1296/GreenHandMar2024.pdf?mimetype=pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> published in Econ Journal Watch in March took issue with Hunt’s central findings and said that the 2015 paper was impossible to replicate, a serious problem for any academic study.
Hunt has argued in favor of DEI in other settings. In a 2020 interview, Hunt said that “treating people evenly” only perpetuates racism and bias “in our systems.”
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“A neutral position that is meritocratic, that is good at treating people evenly, isn’t good enough. It allows the bias that is in our systems … it allows it to perpetuate,” Hunt said. “You have to proactively stand for an antiracism environment.”
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Meritocracy &quot;isn&#39;t good enough.&quot;
&quot;You have to proactively stand for an antiracism environment.&quot;
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After Gay’s downfall at Harvard, a surge in anti-DEI sentiment among some of the university’s influential alumni led to seven outsider campaigns for spots on the university’s Board of Overseers. None of the campaigns were successful, even that of former Facebook executive Sam Lessin, who secured the most nominations for any write-in campaign in Harvard history, 2,901. Each candidate needed to collect 3,238 to be eligible for the ballot.
The failure of the write-in campaigns has bred some skepticism over the election process to the Board of Overseers.
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Vivian Hunt

Harvard Names DEI Advocate To Key Role In Presidential Search

Claudine Gay

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Harvard University

U.S.

Former Harvard University President Claudine Gay, who resigned from her position in January following numerous allegations of plagiarism, will teach a graduate-level course on “Reading and Research” this fall.
Gay taught the same course this spring, The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/claudine-gay-will-teach-reading-and-research-in-fall-2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, which would have been scheduled before she resigned. She will return to teach the same independent study class in the fall, even after her alleged plagiarism was widely reported. Further, she continues to receive her $900,000-a-year salary.
According to Harvard’s <a href="https://infoforfaculty.fas.harvard.edu/book/special-types-courses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, graduate-level Reading and Research courses do not provide letter grades, and a 2011 <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/jimalt/classes/government-3000-graduate-courses-reading-and-research" target="_blank" rel="noopener">description</a> of the course (Gay taught the course back then as well) states that it requires “written work of sufficient quantity and quality so that the course is equivalent to a lecture course or a seminar.”
Gay resigned in January after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvards-gay-accused-of-6-more-instances-of-plagiarism-in-new-complaint" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly 50 examples</a> of alleged plagiarism in her past academic work were uncovered.
“On December 19, I submitted a formal complaint with allegations of plagiarism by Claudine Gay,” a complaint against Gay, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Complaint2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtained</a> by The Washington Free Beacon, said. “Now I am forced to submit an additional complaint with nearly 50 allegations, including over half a dozen examples never seen before. Some of them occur in a publication by Gay that was until now believed to be free from allegations of plagiarism. Others occur in the dissertation. Harvard’s ‘independent review’ missed them. For this reason and others, a new research misconduct inquiry must be opened.”
Gay published just 17 works during her tenure as an academic, and eight of them were reported to contain plagiarized material.
The plagiarism allegations surfaced after Gay and other university presidents <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-obama-privately-came-out-for-gay-at-harvard-amid-anti-semitism-scandal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> before Congress, refusing to say that calling for the genocide of Jews violated codes of conduct. Each president suggested “context” was needed to determine whether such a call would violate the school’s code of conduct.
Months later, when Gay resigned, she attempted to downplay the allegations against her by claiming “racial animus” was behind some of her criticism.
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“Amidst all of this, it has been distressing to have doubts cast on my commitments to confronting hate and upholding scholarly rigor — two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am — and frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus,” she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/claudine-gay-to-resign-as-harvard-president-report">wrote</a>.
Vanderbilt University professor Carol Swain, a black scholar whom Gay is accused of plagiarizing, condemned Harvard’s handling of the situation.
“I have a problem with the way Harvard has reacted to the entire situation, because it seems like — with the assistance of some of their professors and other elites — they’re trying to redefine what is plagiarism,” Swain said, <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/scholars-say-they-were-plagiarized-by-claudine-gay-ignored-by-harvard-investigation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to National Review</a>. “They’re making the argument that there are different levels and, by extension, that some of it is acceptable. That is a problem for higher education in America.”

Claudine Gay, Who Resigned Due To Plagiarism Allegations, To Teach ‘Reading And Research’ Class At Harvard In Fall

Claudine Gay, Who Resigned Due To Plagiarism Allegations, To Teach 'Reading And Research' Class At Harvard In Fall

Plagiarism

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-rowe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Rowe</a> slammed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-law-professor-says-school-should-abandon-mandatory-dei-statements-ideological-pledges-of-allegiance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard&#8217;s</a> &#8220;segregation&#8221; celebrations after the University once again said it would allow students to celebrate &#8220;graduation day with a series of affinity celebrations.&#8221;
In a lengthy post on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/100044228419568/posts/pfbid037e5bvraYn8FoWhoUWawHFMkfgQT669HJnDKrhHkK8XxoJaHtCHR22ofu63EmqVaUl/?mibextid=cr9u03">Facebook</a>, the &#8220;Dirty Jobs&#8221; host mocked the Ivy league school and asked, &#8220;What better way to celebrate Harvard&#8217;s rich commitment to diversity, then by encouraging diverse groups to celebrate separately?&#8221;
&#8220;These [affinity] celebrations allow students to separate themselves from each other based on their racial and ethnic identities, and then, celebrate graduation with their own kind,&#8221; Rowe wrote, with a link to the move by <a href="https://gsas.harvard.edu/commencement/affinity-graduation-celebrations?fbclid=IwAR04TrHklV_y5rHl4RJV5OzFKYFdeaPqaaDYQptv_yr9R1oZciJpdVDVR-w_aem_AWEfkxpJBun5K-gAUUaK_xRLyOg2K0UtTnBP6Sy0D7injRwdB_XyrcwcVcu7tMXwIDwRWt4KW1RsiuH_uc3JvXYj">Harvard</a>.
&#8220;I&#8217;m old enough to remember when this was called &#8216;segregation,'&#8221; he added. &#8220;At Harvard, they call it &#8216;affinity.&#8217; To be fair, Harvard&#8217;s website says these celebrations are not in lieu of the official graduation, and open to all students who pre-register. But the celebrations themselves are clearly labeled, and the invitees are hard to misconstrue.&#8221;
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This year, Harvard is once again permitting its students to observe graduation day with a series of “affinity celebrations.” <a href="https://t.co/nOYbeZKYAh">https://t.co/nOYbeZKYAh</a> These celebrations allow students to separate themselves from each other based on their racial and ethnic identities, and then,…
— The Real Mike Rowe (@mikeroweworks) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeroweworks/status/1776071281265500538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
He then provided a list of the events, such as &#8220;The Latinix Celebration, The Black Celebration, The Arab Celebration, The Jewish Celebration…The Lavender Celebration, (LGBTQ, etc.),&#8221; and his &#8220;personal favorite, The First-Generation Low-Income Celebration.&#8221;
He closed out his post noting that <a href="https://mikeroweworks.org/about/">mikeroweWORKS</a> &#8212; a foundation that promotes the importance of skilled labor &#8212; &#8220;couldn’t care less about the color of your skin, the country of your origin, or the number of Y chromosomes you were born with.&#8221;
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&#8220;We are likewise utterly disinterested in your star sign, your blood type, your eye color, or any other characteristic out of your control,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We do however, care about your thoughts on personal responsibility, work ethic, delayed gratification, a positive attitude, and various other virtues we still believe can lead to a successful life and career. &#8220;
Several people blasted the former TV host’s criticism of Harvard, and Rowe hit back, nailing why they were wrong.
One person wrote, &#8220;Segregation is not optional. The Affinity celebrations are. Why do you care? Why can&#8217;t we celebrate how we choose?&#8221;
&#8220;No one is saying you can&#8217;t celebrate the way you choose, or with the people you prefer to be around,&#8221; Rowe replied. &#8220;I&#8217;m just saying that organized celebrations sponsored by an Ivy League institution that revolve around the color of a person&#8217;s skin are so&#8230;1960…&#8221;
Another wrote, &#8220;Mike, You&#8217;ve never been made to feel like an outsider based on your inherent identity and it shows glaringly. You&#8217;ve always been on the inside and at the very top of our society&#8217;s multi-tiered pyramid that has masculine, heterosexual, white, cis-gender men in charge of most things….&#8221;
Rowe replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m not responsible for the way other people treat other people. I&#8217;m only responsible for the way I treat other people. And I choose to treat other people as if their color and ethnicity don&#8217;t matter…I&#8217;ll continue to do my best to ignore the things that don&#8217;t matter, and celebrate the things that do. I&#8217;d encourage you to do the same.&#8221;

Celebrities Visit Build – February 5, 2019

Mike Rowe Slams Harvard’s ‘Segregation’ Celebrations

Celebrities

Mike Rowe

Racism

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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<div id="attachment_719225" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-719225" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-719225" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/5-1024x576.png" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/5-1024x576.png 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/5-300x169.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/5-768x432.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/04/5.png 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />A quote on Harvard University&#8217;s &#8220;apartheid wall&#8221; from former PFLP terrorist Ghassan Kanafani.</div>
“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.

Harvard Apartheid Wall

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

Anti-Semitism

Hamas

Harvard

Israel

Palestinians

A Harvard law professor is calling on the country&#8217;s most prestigious school to &#8220;abandon&#8221; forcing academics to make <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion</a> (DEI) statements.
Randall Kennedy, who <a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/randall-l-kennedy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teaches</a> criminal law and contracts at Harvard Law School, <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/column/council-on-academic-freedom-at-harvard/article/2024/4/2/kennedy-abandon-dei-statements/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">penned</a> a scathing column Tuesday in The Harvard Crimson, the school&#8217;s newspaper.
Kennedy, who is black and also teaches courses on the regulation of race relations, skewered the Ive League&#8217;s commitment to requiring DEI statements as part of the school&#8217;s hiring process.
&#8220;Candidates for academic positions at Harvard should not be asked to support ideological commitments,&#8221; Kennedy wrote.
He noted the &#8220;howl of protest&#8221; that would erupt if Harvard were to ask academic candidates for statements about their positions on capitalism, patriotism, or Making America Great Again &#8220;with a clear expectation of allegiance.&#8221;
&#8220;By requiring academics to profess — and flaunt — faith in DEI, the proliferation of diversity statements poses a profound challenge to academic freedom,&#8221; Kennedy wrote.
He criticized the &#8220;expectation that DEI statements will essentially constitute pledges of allegiance that enlist academics into the DEI movement by dint of soft-spoken but real coercion: If you want the job or the promotion, play ball — or else.&#8221;
The DEI statement requirement discourages conservative candidates, Kennedy said.
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&#8220;It does not take much discernment to see, moreover, that the diversity statement regime leans heavily and tendentiously towards varieties of academic leftism and implicitly discourages candidates who harbor ideologically conservative dispositions,&#8221; he wrote.
Kennedy also called out the &#8220;cottage industry&#8221; of diversity statement counselors that has sprung up in the last few years.
&#8220;By overreaching, by resorting to compulsion, by forcing people to toe a political line, by imposing ideological litmus tests, by incentivizing insincerity, and by creating a circular mode of discourse that is seemingly impervious to self-questioning, the current DEI regime is discrediting itself,&#8221; Kennedy wrote.
Academics at Harvard and beyond already feel &#8220;intense and growing resentment&#8221; toward the DEI movement, he said.
&#8220;I am a scholar on the left committed to struggles for social justice. The realities surrounding mandatory DEI statements, however, make me wince,&#8221; Kennedy said.
&#8220;The practice of demanding them ought to be abandoned, both at Harvard and beyond,&#8221; he wrote.
Kennedy&#8217;s column comes in the wake of a slew of woes for Harvard over the last few months.
Harvard faced <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvards-chief-diversity-officer-plagiarized-work-too-complaint-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">backlash</a> in recent months for its former president Claudine Gay&#8217;s highly criticized congressional testimony on Harvard’s response to anti-Semitism on campus.
The Ivy League school is currently facing a congressional probe on how it handled anti-Semitism on campus, as well as the school’s response to the plagiarism allegations against Gay.

Harvard Law Professor Says School Should ‘Abandon’ Mandatory DEI Statements: ‘Ideological Pledges Of Allegiance’

Harvard Law Professor Says School Should 'Abandon' Mandatory DEI Statements: 'Ideological Pledges Of Allegiance'

Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

Equity

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.
“We can’t expect Harvard to step away from its bloodlust on its own accord…one day when we win and Palestine is free, they will come crawling back.” <a href="https://t.co/bLoOlRZNOc">pic.twitter.com/bLoOlRZNOc</a>
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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.

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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

A far-Left protester was thrown to the ground after he confronted Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-manchin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Manchin</a> (D-WV) during an event on Friday and called the senator a &#8220;sick f***.&#8221;
The incident happened at a Harvard Institute of Politics event Friday morning just minutes after multiple leftists interrupted a talk that Manchin was giving at the Harvard Kennedy School because of his support for natural gas pipelines.
&#8220;Joe Manchin, you sold our futures and you&#8217;ve gotten rich doing it,&#8221; the protester claimed. &#8220;You sick f***. How dare you.&#8221;
Manchin immediately got up in the protester&#8217;s face, at which point one of his aides got between the two men. The aide then literally threw the protester out of the room.
The protester was apparently from a group called Climate Defiance, which posted on X: “We just called Joe Manchin a sick f***. We humiliated him in front of a herd of Harvard elites. He squared up. We held firm. Barbaric murderer, hideous fiend, he torches humanity and laughs.&#8221;
Manchin then addressed the other protesters and offered to sit down and talk with them, but they refused and declared they were not going anywhere.
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A Kennedy School spokesperson <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/3/2/manchin-event-protester-confrontation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a> that the Harvard University Police Department was investigating the incident.
“A Harvard University police officer ordered the protesters to leave the Kennedy School campus, and the protesters complied,” the spokesperson said.

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Anti-Israel protesters demonstrated for five hours outside two sold-out concerts hosted for Harvard University students featuring Israeli pop star Ishay Ribo, who says he came to the embattled Ivy League institution as a show of support for its Jewish community.
&#8220;We in Israel heard — and the rest of the world heard — that Harvard’s students got entangled in a complicated situation where there are a lot of protests and support of Gaza here,&#8221; the Israeli singing sensation Ribo told The Daily Wire. &#8220;We felt connection and importance in coming here to support them and to thank America&#8217;s Jewish community. So the moment we heard it would be possible to give a performance, we jumped on the opportunity with great joy.&#8221;
Ribo was hosted by Harvard Chabad to lift the spirits of Jewish students who have encountered months of turmoil and accusations of poorly handling anti-Semitism on campus in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 massacre of Israeli civilians.
“His music elevates us, comforts us, strengthens us, raises our consciousness — our jewish consciousness — deepens our faith and restores and strengthens our hope,” Harvard Chabad Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi said on stage.
<h3>Israeli Pop Star Ishay Ribo vs. Anti-Israel Protesters Outside His Concert</h3>
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About 100 protesters across the street greeted concert attendees as they lined up with boos and chants including the genocidal “from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free” 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.
“To walk into a space of love, we had to pass some darkness, some words of hate,” Zarchi said. “Any time a Jew hears or witnesses hate to the Jewish people, how do you respond? You love more, you love Jews deeper, you love Israel more, and you stand up for her more. Ultimately with our love and our positivity we will overwhelm the darkness and overwhelm the hate.”
A protester with a megaphone told the group that Ribo is guilty of playing music for the Israeli Defense Forces soldiers.
“Ishay Ribo has been seen multiple times fraternizing with the IDF,” the man shouted. “He has been seen on the front lines performing, singing, dancing with the upmost support for the IDF. Support for the IDF is support for genocide.”
Ribo said he thinks the protesters are demonstrating because it is trendy.
&#8220;I don’t know if the people there that were protesting realized what they were protesting about, but inside it felt that there was truth, that there was great light,&#8221; Ribo said through a translator backstage. &#8220;The people were protesting on something they don’t really understand, they are clueless about all the things that they have heard — half truths and they turned it into some sort of amalgamation.&#8221;
The event was almost moved from its location at The Sinclair located next to Harvard University because employees refused to work with more than thirty attending the protest. Instead the venue had to rely on outside employees to staff the event.
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Last night <a href="https://twitter.com/Accordion_Cory?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Accordion_Cory</a> played a Fiddler on the Roof remix in front of the anti-Israel protesters outside the Ishay Ribo concert hosted by <a href="https://twitter.com/HarvardChabad?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HarvardChabad</a> for students.
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As Harvard students and local Jewish community members entered and exited the building many counter-protested singing pro-Israel songs and dancing. Both sides of the protests had their own musicians to keep their sides engaged.
On the pro-Israel side, a world accordion champion, Cory Pesaturo, played the American and Israeli national anthems, Israeli pop music, and songs from Fiddler in the Roof. He also performed the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah, on stage with Ribo during both shows.

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VIDEO: Anti-Israel Mob At Harvard Chants Outside Israeli Popstar Ishay Ribo’s Concert

Harvard University is set to host a United Nations official today who was just banned by Israel for her comments justifying Hamas’ October 7 slaughter of more than 1,000 civilians as a “response to Israel’s oppression.&#8221;
Francesca Albanese, the UN&#8217;s Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, was officially banned from Israel on Monday for stating days earlier that the Hamas attack had nothing to do with anti-Semitism, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/un-special-rapporteur-for-palestinians-banned-from-israel-after-appearing-to-justify-oct-7-massacre/">according</a> to The Times of Israel. She is still scheduled, however, to be a featured speaker for Harvard&#8217;s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy on Monday afternoon to discuss Israel&#8217;s war in Gaza.
“Join us for a virtual conversation with UN Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, as she discusses her perspective on the current situation in the Gaza area as well as her experiences working on the protection of Palestinian refugees and migrants,” the <a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/harvard-events/events-calendar/?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d172028913">event’s website states</a>. 
Albanese on Saturday has made her position on Israel&#8217;s offensive against Hamas quite clear, most recently pushing back against French President Emmanuel Macron for calling the October 7 attack an &#8220;anti-Semitic massacre.&#8221;
“The &#8216;greatest anti-Semitic massacre of our century&#8217;? No, Mr.<a href="https://twitter.com/EmmanuelMacron"> @EmmanuelMacron</a>,” UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese <a href="https://twitter.com/FranceskAlbs/status/1756351236909965591">tweeted</a> in response to France’s president honoring the victims on Saturday. “The victims of 10/7 were not killed because of their Judaism, but in response to Israel&#8217;s oppression.”
Harvard&#8217;s decision to host her on the same day she was banned by Israel comes as the Ivy League institution grapples with rampant anti-Semitism on campus. The Cambridge-based Ivy League is currently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jewish-students-sue-harvard-for-failing-to-stop-anti-semitism-while-threatening-discipline-for-fatphobia">facing a lawsuit</a> filed by Jewish students that accuses the school of avoiding protecting Jewish students from harassment and enabling antisemitism. 
Harvard University did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The event, entitled, &#8220;A Conversation with Francesca Albanese,&#8221; will be hosted at 4:00 p.m., and will include the center’s Faculty Director Mathias Risse.
Israeli officials said Albanese should be fired permanently by the United Nations, The Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/un-special-rapporteur-for-palestinians-banned-from-israel-after-appearing-to-justify-oct-7-massacre/">reported on Monday</a>. 
“The era of Jews being silent is over,” Foreign Minister Israel Katz and Interior Minister Moshe Arbel said in a joint statement. “If the UN wants to return to being a relevant body, its leaders must publicly disavow the anti-Semitic words of the ‘Special Envoy’ – and fire her permanently. Preventing her from entering Israel might remind her of the real reason why Hamas slaughtered babies, women and adults.”
Last year, a bipartisan group of members of Congress called on the United Nations to remove Albanese for her bias against Israel.
&#8220;Ms. Albanese has repeatedly refused to condemn terrorist attacks against Israelis while continuing her condemnations of Israel,&#8221; <a href="https://schneider.house.gov/media/press-releases/schneider-wagner-lead-representatives-call-un-disband-commission-inquiry-and">the group wrote</a>. &#8220;For an official tasked with serving as an independent, neutral, and expert voice on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, her inexcusable silence against terrorism targeting Israelis and her outrageous and prejudicial remarks clearly reflect the irredeemable bias of her mandate.&#8221;
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Earlier this month The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-kennedy-school-to-host-radical-palestinian-professor-who-blamed-israel-for-hamas-terrorist-attack">first reported</a> on the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative’s plan to host a Palestinian professor who called Hamas’ massacre of Israeli civilians a “normal struggle for freedom,” and said she would never forgive Israel’s government for “making us take their children and elderly as hostages.”
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The school distanced itself from the event, putting the blame on the Middle East Initiative&#8217;s director, Professor Tarek E. Masoud. “Dean Douglas Elmendorf personally finds abhorrent the comments by Dalal Saeb Iriqat quoted in the press that justify and normalize the horrific terrorist attack by Hamas,” it said in a statement. “An invitation to speak at the Kennedy School never implies an endorsement of a speaker’s views by the Kennedy School or members of the Kennedy School community.&#8221;

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Harvard University&#8217;s chief diversity officer plagiarized large portions of her academic work, a complaint filed Monday with the Ivy League school alleges.
The allegations echo those against Claudine Gay, who stepped down as Harvard&#8217;s president earlier this month after a cascade of plagiarism allegations.
Sherri Ann Charleston, Harvard&#8217;s <a href="https://edib.harvard.edu/people/sherri-ann-charleston" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first ever</a> chief diversity and inclusion <a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/06/sherri-ann-charleston-named-chief-diversity-and-inclusion-officer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">officer</a>, plagiarized parts of every publication she wrote, at least 40 times total, claims the anonymous <a href="https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Charleston_complaint.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complaint</a> filed with the university, which was first <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/not-just-claudine-gay-harvards-chief-diversity-officer-plagiarized-and-claimed-credit-for-husbands-work-complaint-alleges/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by The Washington Free Beacon.
She quoted or paraphrased nearly a dozen other academics without proper attribution in her 2009 dissertation submitted to the University of Michigan, the complaint says.
Also, Charleston&#8217;s only peer-reviewed journal article, written in 2014 with her husband, lifted parts from a 2012 study her husband published, presenting it as new research, according to the complaint.
Her husband, LaVar Charleston <a href="https://provost.wisc.edu/staff/charleston-lavar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">is the deputy</a> vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Charleston herself was previously assistant vice provost for diversity, equity, and inclusion and chief affirmative action officer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In the 2014 article, which was published in the Journal of Negro Education, even interviews with black computer science students from the 2012 study showed up word for word. The 2014 article also listed the same methods, findings, and descriptions of survey subjects as the older study, according to the Beacon&#8217;s analysis.
&#8220;The 2014 paper appears to be entirely counterfeit,&#8221; Peter Wood, the head of the National Association of Scholars, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/not-just-claudine-gay-harvards-chief-diversity-officer-plagiarized-and-claimed-credit-for-husbands-work-complaint-alleges/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Beacon.
&#8220;This is research fraud pure and simple,&#8221; Wood said.
One significant problem is the fact that the 2014 publication not only appeared to copy parts of the 2012 study, it also added two new authors — Sherri Ann Charleston and Jerlando Jackson, who had nothing to do with the original study.
As chief diversity officer, Charleston <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/8/25/presidential-search-advisory-committees/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">served</a> on the presidential search committee that ultimately named Claudine Gay as president.
Gay was accused last year of dozens of instances of plagiarism in her published works. Amid mounting criticism and pressure to step down, she ultimately resigned earlier this month.
The controversy around Gay’s academic writings comes on the heels of her highly criticized congressional testimony on Harvard’s response to anti-Semitism on campus.
Harvard is currently facing a congressional probe on how it handled anti-Semitism on campus as well as the school&#8217;s response to the plagiarism allegations against Gay.
However, Gay still collects a $900,000 annual salary as a tenured faculty member at Harvard.

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Harvard’s Chief Diversity Officer Plagiarized Work Too, Complaint Claims

Harvard's Chief Diversity Officer Plagiarized Work Too, Complaint Claims

A top <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> Republican issued a fresh warning to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harvard-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard University</a> on Tuesday over the Ivy League institution&#8217;s level of cooperation with an investigation into <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-Semitism</a> on campuses.
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the Education and the Workforce Committee, released a <a href="https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=410022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> that said an &#8220;initial review&#8221; showed Harvard&#8217;s production of documents to her panel so far &#8220;is woefully inadequate.&#8221;
She added, &#8220;Rather than answering the Committee’s request in a substantive manner, Harvard has chosen to provide letters from nonprofits and student handbooks, many of which are already publicly available. This is unacceptable.&#8221;
Foxx indicated that subpoenas could follow if Harvard does not satisfy her committee&#8217;s demands. &#8220;Harvard must produce the remaining documents in a timely manner, or risk compulsory measures,&#8221; the chairwoman said.
The Daily Wire reached out to Harvard seeking comment on the statement.
Universities are facing intense scrutiny over acts of anti-Semitism reported on campuses around the country as Israel wages war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip following the group&#8217;s deadly terrorist attack on October 7. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israel-did-9-11-harvard-campus-littered-with-anti-semitic-graffiti-ahead-of-new-semester" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> this week that Harvard&#8217;s campus was littered with anti-Semitic graffiti ahead of the new semester.
The congressional investigation into Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) <a href="https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=409851" target="_blank" rel="noopener">began</a> in December after their respective presidents <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-top-university-presidents-balk-when-asked-if-genocidal-chants-against-jews-violate-codes-of-conduct" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dodged the question</a> of whether calling for the genocide of Jews on campuses violated their schools&#8217; policies on bullying and harassment. The GOP-led House has also passed a resolution <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-resolution-condemning-testimony-of-university-presidents-on-anti-semitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">condemning their testimonies</a>.
During a hearing, Harvard President Claudine Gay told lawmakers that <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/8/gay-apology-congressional-remarks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;context&#8221;</a> dictated whether calling for the genocide of Jews on campuses violated her school&#8217;s policies on bullying and harassment. Gay has since <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/major-players-in-harvard-controversy-sound-off-on-gays-resignation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stepped down</a>, but not before the Education and the Workforce Committee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-escalates-harvard-probe-to-examine-plagiarism-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expanded</a> its probe into Harvard with a new line of inquiry regarding plagiarism allegations levied at Gay <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/12/allegations-plagiarism-gay-dissertation/#:~:text=Though%20The%20Crimson%20reported%20early,end%20of%20her%20first%20semester." target="_blank" rel="noopener">dating back to the 1990s when she was a student</a>.
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The anti-Semitism investigation into the universities, as <a href="https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=409851" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described</a> by Foxx, is looking into &#8220;the learning environments at Harvard, UPenn, and MIT and their policies and disciplinary procedures.&#8221; Foxx sent a letter on Wednesday to UPenn officials demanding a <a href="https://edworkforce.house.gov/uploadedfiles/penn_letter_final_v2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bevy of documents</a> on the school&#8217;s response to <a href="https://twitter.com/EdWorkforceCmte/status/1750209518250705325" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-Semitic incidents</a> by February 7.

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