Harvard University announced this week that it would offer free tuition for any student attending whose family makes less than $200,000 a year starting in the 2025-26 academic year.
Additionally, the institution said that students enrolled whose families have an annual income of $100,000 or less will be offered free housing, food, and health services.
Currently, it costs $56,550 a year to attend the school. Adding housing, food, and health services brings that total to $82,866, per the university.
&#8220;Putting Harvard within financial reach for more individuals widens the array of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives that all of our students encounter, fostering their intellectual and personal growth,&#8221; Harvard University President Alan M. Garber said in a statement. &#8220;By bringing people of outstanding promise together to learn with and from one another, we truly realize the tremendous potential of the University.&#8221;
About 55% of Harvard undergraduates receive financial aid, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Business/harvard-tuition-families-making-200k/story?id=119874241">ABC News</a> noted.
&#8220;We know the most talented students come from different socioeconomic backgrounds and experiences, from every state and around the globe,&#8221; William R. Fitzsimmons, Harvard College’s dean of admissions and financial aid, said in a statement. &#8220;Our financial aid is critical to ensuring that these students know Harvard College is a place where they can be part of a vibrant learning community strengthened by their presence and participation.&#8221;
The new plan means that about 86% of United States families would qualify for financial aid from Harvard if accepted for admission. Most recently, the Ivy League school accepted 3.59% of the 54,000 applicants for the Class of 2028.
Harvard University’s Republican Club has seen an increase in signups recently, saying the group has quadrupled the number of members last year. The club previously had 40 to 50 active members.
“Harvard Republicans are thriving, something that couldn’t happen four years ago,” Harvard Republican Club President Michael Oved <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-republican-club-says-enrollment-is-booming-as-members-proudly-share-beliefs">told</a> The Daily Wire in September. “We no longer hide our Republican views, we embrace them. We wear it on our sleeves, proudly and people see that, and they become encouraged to do the same.”
This update comes as the university has been mired in controversy due to the administration’s and left-wing student groups’ reaction to Hamas’ October 7 brutal attack on Israeli civilians.

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Harvard University has settled two lawsuits alleging the school mishandled anti-Semitism on campus following President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Trump has <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/diversity/religion/2024/12/10/what-trump-has-said-about-antisemitism-and-campus-protests" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatened</a> to withhold federal funding from colleges and universities that allow anti-Israel protesters to spread anti-Semitism on campus. The settlements were announced separately on Tuesday, The Harvard Crimson <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/1/21/harvard-settles-antisemitism-lawsuits/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, and include an undisclosed monetary amount and a clarification of Harvard&#8217;s policies about what constitutes anti-Semitism.
The Crimson suggested that the definition of anti-Semitism – from the International Holocaust Remembrance Association (IHRA) – is “controversial” and “classifies certain criticisms of Israel as antisemitic” without providing evidence.
The IHRA’s <a href="https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">definition of anti-Semitism</a> explains that “Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”
The IHRA goes on to explicitly state that “criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.” The organization also provides examples of anti-Semitism, including denial or downplaying of the Holocaust or “holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.”
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The Crimson does note that one of the examples is the claim that the “existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.” The outlet suggested that this definition “could allow Harvard to crack down on pro-Palestine student protesters who have condemned Israel’s war in Gaza and policies toward Palestinians, often in harsh terms.”
Those “harsh terms” included an “apartheid wall” that included a quote from the leader of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-hires-24-7-security-to-protect-anti-israel-apartheid-wall-featuring-quote-from-famous-terrorist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. A sign repeating the Palestinian slogan &#8220;from the river to the sea&#8221; &#8211; a phrase calling for the elimination of Israel &#8211; was also displayed at the Harvard anti-Israel camp.
The settlement also includes a stipulation that Harvard partner with an unnamed university in Israel, in direct defiance of a demand by anti-Israel protesters who demanded the university cut all ties with Israel (but no other countries).
The two settled lawsuits came from a group of six Harvard students and the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education. The student-led <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jewish-students-sue-harvard-for-failing-to-stop-anti-semitism-while-threatening-discipline-for-fatphobia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a>, filed jointly with the group Students Against Antisemitism, accused the university of violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by allowing mobs of anti-Israel protesters to occupy campus buildings and threaten violence against Jewish students, The Daily Wire reported. It also accused administrators and professors of allowing anti-Semitism and dismissing students who objected to it.
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“Harvard, America’s leading university, has become a bastion of rampant anti-Jewish hatred and harassment,” the lawsuit said. “Mobs of pro-Hamas students and faculty have marched by the hundreds through Harvard’s campus, shouting vile antisemitic slogans and calling for death to Jews and Israel.”
The Brandeis Center lawsuit accused Harvard of “deliberately” ignoring anti-Semitism and cited specific examples, including an incident that occurred after the devastating October 7, 2023, attacks against Israel by Palestinian terrorists.
Trump has condemned the treatment of Jews on college campuses across the country.
“What’s going on at the colleges — Columbia, NYU, and others — is a disgrace,” Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jewish-students-sue-harvard-for-failing-to-stop-anti-semitism-while-threatening-discipline-for-fatphobia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters in April 2024. “It’s really on [former President Joe] Biden. He’s got the wrong signal, he’s got the wrong tone, he’s got the wrong words. He doesn’t know who he’s backing. And It’s a mess.”

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From “Queer Time, Queer Space” to “Black Shakespeare,” universities across the United States are offering left-wing courses that range from the radical to the downright strange.
It&#8217;s no surprise that elite colleges and universities have left-wing biases. But rather than offer courses on Marx or critical theory, many institutions are going even further in the spring semester. Academics are bringing increasingly fringe subjects to the classroom, &#8220;queering&#8221; the world of architecture and &#8220;racializing&#8221; science fiction.
Here are some of the most woke classes being offered on college campuses this semester.
Art Films: Queer Time, Queer Space (Brown University)
The Ivy League institution in Providence, Rhode Island is offering students <a href="https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=queer">Art Films: Queer Time, Queer Space</a>, which will encourage “a sustained meditation on cinematic practices that trouble and disrupt normative, reproductive, developmental, and accumulative time.” The description goes into more depth, explaining its methods.
“By situating queer theories of temporality in proximity to time-based art-making, we will engage with and analyze art films, digital media, and performative works that push the boundaries of the aesthetically and politically possible,” it adds.
Spaces of Queer Theory (University of California Berkeley)
Not to be outdone, UC Berkeley is hosting “<a href="https://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2025-spring-arch-139-001-lec-001">Spaces of Queer Theory</a>,” a class that examines architectural practices and their interactions with queer politics. It will delve into “queer necropolitics and the carceral state” as well as “the architectural futurity of queer communities,” all while discussing “queering architecture,” “queer ecologies,” and “spaces of queer consumption.&#8221;
Black Shakespeare; Race, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice (Columbia University)
Called “<a href="https://doc.sis.columbia.edu/#subj/AFEN/BC3817-20251-001/">Black Shakespeare</a>,” the Columbia University course raises the question, “Can performing Shakespeare be an activist endeavor?” It goes further. “Can creators and scholars separate Shakespeare from the apparatus of white supremacy that has been built around his works?” the course description inquires. It even probes, “What are the challenges and obstacles for BIPOC scholars working on Shakespeare in academia?”
Students at Columbia can also <a href="https://doc.sis.columbia.edu/#subj/EESC/GR9810-20251-001/">take</a> “Race, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice,” which seeks to untether science from its “colonial foundations” and encourages students to “decolonize their own research.”
“We begin by examining the colonial foundations of the sciences, with a special focus on the geo- and climate sciences,” the description explains. “The ideological underpinnings of these sciences assume the earth to be an inert object ripe for exploitation; this legacy of European modernity is often at odds with the worldviews of indigenous peoples and their relations with nature.”
AfroFuturism (Vassar College)
“Afrofuturists reconfigure notions of race and identity by appropriating science fiction tropes while speculating potential futures free from any Eurocentric gaze,” reads <a href="https://catalogue.vassar.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=55&amp;coid=379772">the description</a> of the course at the Poughkeepsie, New York college.
“Beginning with Afrofuturist progenitor Sun Ra, we go “black to the future” and closely encounter other Afronauts such as Octavia Butler, Janelle Monáe, Nnedi Okorafor, OutKast, Parliament-Funkadelic, Ishmael Reed, and Fatimah Tuggar, among others.”
The Sexual Life of Colonialism; Race, Gender, and Medicine (Harvard University)
Students at Harvard University are <a href="https://courses.my.harvard.edu/dw_course/fas_crse_cat.pdf">invited</a> to take a course called “Race, Gender, and Medicine” which employs “feminist theory, disability justice movements, critical race theory, queer theory, anti-colonial thought, and trans liberation movements.” One of the focuses of the course, the description explains, is “the development and racialization of transgender medicine.” It also poses the question, “What unique challenges do trans and gender-diverse youth face in seeking medical care as a result of recent transphobic laws and policies?”
Another course at the institution is titled “The Sexual Life of Colonialism” and seeks to “investigate the role of colonialism and neocolonialism in racial imaginations of gender and sexuality.”
Black Feminist and Queer Contemporary Culture (Swarthmore College)
Pennsylvania&#8217;s Swarthmore College will offer a <a href="https://catalog.swarthmore.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=30&amp;coid=100025">course</a> on “Black Feminist and Queer Contemporary Culture,” with a focus on “the works of black queer and trans visual artists and writers.”
“Using the tools of black feminist and queer theory, the class will cover topics and concepts such as Afrofuturism, stereotypes, intersectionality, surveillance, film, performance, abstraction/figuration, photography, poetry, and ungendering,” the description states.
Queer and Trans of Color Critique; Queer and Trans Latino Studies (Northwestern University)
Evanston, Illinois’ Northwestern University joins the ranks of the other institutions with <a href="https://catalogs.northwestern.edu/search/?caturl=%2Fundergraduate&amp;search=queer">classes</a> on race and queer politics. Students can take both “Queer and Trans of Color Critique” and “Queer and Trans Latino Studies,” the latter of which “will explore the construction of gender and sexuality as it intersects with race, class, immigration, and other relationships of power” and focus on “Black feminist, women of color feminist, and queer of color critique writing and activism.”
Queer, Quare, Ku&#8217;er: or Queer of Color Critique (University of Chicago)
The highly-ranked University of Chicago advertises a course titled “Queer, Quare, Ku&#8217;er: or queer of color critique,” which poses the question &#8220;what could queer theory look like if we begin from the premise that its model subject is not white?&#8221;
It also has a number of different <a href="http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/search/?caturl=%2Fthecollege&amp;P=queer">courses on queer politics</a>, including “Queer Theory and Queer Practice,” “The Aesthetics of Camp: Queer Style, Queer Sensibility,” and “Queer Theology and Queer of Color Critique.”

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Contributions to Harvard University’s endowment dropped by $151 million – 14% – in fiscal year 2024 following ongoing anti-Israel protests that have turned off several billionaire donors.
The Harvard Crimson <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/10/18/harvard-fundraising-crisis-price-tag/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that total contributions to the endowment fund actually dropped by $193 million – the greatest year-over-year drop in the past decade, but a $42 million increase in current-use gifts propped up the final net total decrease.
The massive loss to fundraising comes after several billionaires said they would stop donating to the Ivy League university because of how it handled anti-Semitism on campus. Hedge fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin, who graduated from Harvard in 1989, <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/31/ken-griffin-pausing-harvard-donations/">announced</a> in January that he would pause donations. A year earlier, he donated $300 million to the school’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Griffin blamed the school’s handling of anti-Semitism for his pause on donations.
“I’d like that to change and I have made that clear to members of the corporate board,” he said at a conference, <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/31/ken-griffin-pausing-harvard-donations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to the Crimson</a>. “But until Harvard makes it very clear that they’re going to resume their role as educating young American men and women to be leaders, to be problem solvers, to take on difficult issues, I’m not interested in supporting the institution.”
He also called Harvard students “whiny snowflakes” obsessed with “microaggressions” and “DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion].”
“Will America’s elite university get back to their roots of educating American children – young adults – to be the future leaders of our country or are they going to maintain being lost in the wilderness of microaggressions, a DEI agenda that seems to have no real endgame, and just being loss in the wilderness?” he asked.
The Crimson also <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/11/29/donor-backlash-israel-hamas-response/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that university leaders were privately worried about longtime donors pulling back after the university’s response to anti-Israel protests on campus.
Even with the backlash, the university hasn’t appeared to take any steps to stop the anti-Semitism. Just this week, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-gave-students-10-minutes-to-protest-anti-hamas-speaker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Harvard allowed students 10 minutes to protest an anti-Hamas speaker invited to the campus. The Harvard student hosting the speaker was also forced to read a statement informing the audience about the protest.
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Harvard is not the only Ivy League facing funding issues. Columbia University’s annual “Giving Day” donations dropped nearly 30% after the school allowed anti-Israel protests to linger on campus, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/columbia-university-giving-day-donations-plunge-nearly-30-following-anti-israel-protests" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> previously.
For the first time, the university suffered a massive drop in donations, after pausing the event in 2023 after the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, the Columbia Spectator <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/10/03/columbia-giving-day-donations-down-significantly-amid-donor-crisis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Since resuming the event, the school has had a nearly 30% drop in donations.
In 2022, Columbia raised $30 million on Giving Day, compared to $21.4 million raised in 2024 – a 28.8% drop. This was the lowest amount raised since 2018.
The number of donations also declined 27.9% this year after rising steadily for the first 10 years of the event, the Columbia Spectator reported.

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Harvard University students hosting anti-Hamas speaker Mosab Hassan Yousef for a lecture last week were required to read a university-issued statement, informing the audience that protesters would be allowed up to 10 minutes to disrupt the event before being removed.
“Speech is privileged in the University community,” the Harvard student hosting the event read. There are obligations of civility and respect for others that underlie rational discourse. “If any disruption occurs that prohibits speech the disrupters will be allowed for up to 10 minutes.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/there-is-no-room-for-savages-in-our-civilization-mosab-hassan-yousef-son-of-hamas-leader">Yousef</a>, known as the “Green Prince,” is a former Palestinian militant who defected to Israel in 1997. He worked with the Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet, helping to prevent terrorist attacks, including suicide bombings. His father, Sheikh Hassan Yousef, is a co-founder of Hamas.
At the 5-minute mark protesters will be issued a warning and asked to stop, and after five more minutes they will be removed if their disruptive behavior “prevents the audience from adequately hearing or seeing the speakers,” the statement said.
The policy comes as Harvard grapples with how to deal with the anti-Israel protesters on its campus who have created encampments, harassed Jewish students, and disrupted graduation ceremonies. Yousef’s event was hosted by <a href="https://www.salientharvard.com">The Harvard Salient</a>, Harvard’s only conservative student publication, which has been gaining momentum since its 2021 relaunch.
A Harvard student who helps run student organizations but wishes to remain anonymous for fear of retribution from classmates told The Daily Wire that “the school has allowed for the heckler’s veto for a while, but the reading of the statement is new.”
No protesters disrupted Yousef&#8217;s event. However, an anti-Israel vigil was held simultaneously, with participants honoring the victims of what they described as “one year of genocide.”
“After a year of genocide, we must honor the over 42,000 martyrs lost in this genocide,” an anti-Israel Harvard student group <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DA67tRUysbj/?igsh=eTVndmN5OGV3NGZy">wrote on Instagram</a>.
Shabbos Kestanbaum, a recent Harvard Divinity School graduate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jewish-harvard-grad-who-faced-harassment-on-campus-addresses-rnc-to-thunderous-applause">suing the school</a> for enabling anti-Semitism, slammed the 10-minute policy, claiming it is the school allowing “temper tantrums.”
“Rather than live up to its unfounded reputation of academic excellence, Harvard University instead sanctions temper tantrums, allowing students and professors to impede others’ free speech and educational opportunities,” Kestenbaum told The Daily Wire. “This is yet another example of Harvard acquiescing to the demands of the mob.”
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During his talk, Yousef attempted to diagnose the anti-Israel radicalism expressed by many Harvard students since Hamas’ October 7 massacre, raping, and kidnapping of Israelis in southern Israel.
“Hamas has been up to something really bad, but people are in denial, and they do not want to face the truth,” Yousef said. “We don’t only see it on the streets of Gaza. We see it in London, we see it in Paris, we see it in New York, and we saw it on this campus.”
Yousef fled to the United States and applied for political asylum in 2007, which was granted in 2010 after his Israeli intelligence handler Gonen Ben Itzhak testified to his story and the risks to his life if he returned. Yousef says he has lost his family and his feeling of security after making it his life’s mission to speak against Hamas and terrorism.
“And truly many of us have been shocked because this is Harvard,” he added. “People assume that the students have high IQ and are very smart and they kind of fall into the trap of delusion. But now, the students of Harvard, at least some of them, proved the opposite of all expectations.”
Yousef said he is not surprised by what is happening on college campuses in the United States, citing the story of Yaha Ayyash, an electric engineering graduate of Birzeit University, the top university in the West Bank. Ayyash — nicknamed “the Engineer” — is known for revamping Hamas’s suicide bomb production, and is credited with helping kill nearly 100 Israeli civilians in the 1990s.
“Look up Hamas leaders, most of them are doctors and engineers.” Yousef said. “There’s a big difference between education and intelligence. You can be well-educated, but without being anchored in certain truths or having a moral compass, then automatically you can be swayed by any ideology, and then all of a sudden you believe that blowing up buses is part of the resistance.”
Harvard University has an active relationship with Birzeit University, whose students elected a Hamas-affiliated student bloc to run its student government, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-dark-relationship-between-u-s-universities-and-the-anti-american-school-controlled-by-terrorists">previously reported</a>. This same group honored Ayyash in a reception for new students, titled “Ayyash’s Army” on November 24, 2022 — the day after terrorists detonated bombs at a bus stop, killing two Israelis.
Yousef said he does not have a problem with anti-war students, but believes they must be pro-peace instead of just attempting to delegitimize Israel.
“Palestine is nothing but a colonial power created by the British that lasted approximately 25 years. And today, millions around the world want to bring the colonial entity back to life at the expense of a well-established and a really liberal country, the only democracy in the region that has all ethnic groups in it: Muslims, Arabs, Jews, Druze, Christians all living in harmony as equal citizens.”
Yousef added that educational institutions should do a better job telling the story of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because students are confused and “driven by very strong emotions when they see the bloodshed on social media, even though many are fabricated by Hamas and Hamas’s strategy has been to sacrifice civilians.”
“If the anti-war activists don&#8217;t like what we are seeing, then they must work against Hamas who have been using human shields,” he said. “How can you advocate on behalf of the children and then validate the Hamas and the Palestinian ideology that is nothing but a false narrative?”
He added that he thinks those who are advocating for a “Free Palestine” or chant “from the river to the sea” do not understand the implications of eliminating Israel.
“Here in the West, they don&#8217;t realize the crime that they are committing because when they say free Palestine. Who is supposed to do the job? Free Palestine or ‘from the river to the sea’&#8230;means that someone has to go on a suicidal fight with Israel to remove Israel from the land as a condition to establish Palestine,” he said.
“Me, the children in Gaza, the children in the West Bank, are supposed to actually fight on behalf of the egomaniacs playing the savior so they can make a point for their movements to become successful? This is not acceptable,” he added.
Harvard University did not respond to a request for comment.

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When vice presidential candidate Tim Walz ran for Congress in 2006, he embellished a connection to Harvard University.
The biographical embellishment is especially concerning considering Walz had routinely mocked GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance for leaving poverty and attending Yale University.
The misleading information was included in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061102031053/http:/www.timwalz.campaignoffice.com/vertical/Sites/%7BDD1DDF80-8E82-48D5-8648-607855AC529B%7D/uploads/%7B86F5C28D-45F0-4423-84E0-AA8A721FBB0F%7D.PDF" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a biography</a> Walz used to launch his 2006 campaign.
&#8220;Harvard University offered Walz an opportunity to gain a new perspective on global education by teaching in the People&#8217;s Republic of China,&#8221; the biography said.
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As The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/for-tim-walz-a-pattern-of-prevarications-stretches-back-almost-two-decades/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, Walz’s congressional biography – published after Walz won his first election – said the same thing. A 2018 version of his biography said Walz&#8217;s teaching in China was the result of a “program at Harvard University,” according to the Free Beacon.
Walz taught in China but has never been considered a Harvard student or alumnus. He taught through a program called WorldTeach, a nonprofit founded by Harvard undergraduates in 1986. It was once funded by Harvard’s Phillips Brooks House Association, which has been characterized as “a student-run community service group” <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/11/13/zuckerberg-chan-gift/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">by the Harvard Crimson</a>. The PBHA provides resources to numerous nonprofit organizations and also makes it easier for Harvard students to obtain volunteer opportunities. WorldTeach, however, has never been an official Harvard program.
Walz no longer mentions any Harvard connections in his current biographies.
Walz has been traveling the country to campaign and, in doing so, has repeatedly mocked Vance for escaping poverty and attending Yale University. At one event last week, Walz seemingly insulted his former high school classmates in an attempt to mock Vance.
“I had 24 kids in my high school class and none of them went to Yale,” Walz said, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4841612-vance-walz-yale/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to The Hill</a>. “But I’ll tell you what, growing up in a small town like that, you learn to take care of each other.”
Vance responded to the dig by saying he was proud of his accomplishments.
“As you guys know, I grew up in a very poor family. I was raised by a grandmother who didn’t graduate from high school, much less from college, and I’m proud of the fact that she really worked her tail off, that she, you know, went to her grave fighting to give me opportunities,” Vance <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061102031053/http:/www.timwalz.campaignoffice.com/vertical/Sites/%7BDD1DDF80-8E82-48D5-8648-607855AC529B%7D/uploads/%7B86F5C28D-45F0-4423-84E0-AA8A721FBB0F%7D.PDF" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News. “I’m not ashamed of the fact that my grandmother sacrificed for me and I was able to live the American Dream.”
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“I’m proud of what I accomplished, and more importantly, I’m proud of all the people who sacrificed in order to give me a better life,” Vance said later in the program. “I would think Tim Walz would want to praise people who sacrificed to give their children and grandchildren a better life. Not put me down, but I guess this is the political order of the day. He’s going to attack me. That’s fine, but I’m proud of my family.”
It&#8217;s not the first time Walz has embellished or misled about his life, nor is it the first time he has done so when it comes to teaching.
Walz, a former high school teacher, repeatedly claimed or implied he had won “Teacher of the Year” awards,” leading many to believe he had won a statewide or national award. But Walz had won <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-walzs-misleading-claims-about-winning-teaching-awards" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a local teacher of the year award</a> and an additional award for ethics.

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Harvard University has relocated a summer program with a Palestinian university whose faculty and students have endorsed and collaborated with Hamas and other terror groups, a spokesman told The Daily Wire.
Birzeit University, which called for “glory for the martyrs” after Hamas’s October 7 terrorist massacre in Israel, was slated to host Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s “Palestine Social Medicine Course” from July to August. But the school has moved the program to Jordan, a spokesman told The Daily Wire, “due to security concerns in the West Bank.”
According to the <a href="https://fxb.harvard.edu/racial-justice/palestine-program/palestine-social-medicine-course/">program’s website</a>, the “three-week intensive summer course is designed to introduce students to the social, structural, political, and historical aspects that determine Palestinian health beyond the biological basis of disease.” 
The program kicks off this week and ends August 17.
Students on the trip will learn from health practitioners, academics, and activists about topics including “Settler colonialism and its manifestations in Palestine” and “Health and racism,” the website states. 
Harvard&#8217;s relationship with Birzeit University came under scrutiny after The Daily Wire revealed the Palestinian university&#8217;s connections with terrorists and anti-Semites, prompting a group of lawmakers <a href="https://walberg.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/walberg.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Walberg-Stefanik%20FINAL.pdf">to call for an end</a> to the partnership.
On October 10, Birzeit University’s school’s X account called for “<a href="https://archive.ph/eRaU6">glory for the martyrs</a>” and <a href="https://archive.is/Dn4iu">repeatedly declared</a> support for student encampments on American college campuses whose members harassed Jewish students.
The account also mourned “with great pride the martyr,” Aysar Safi, a student killed in a combat mission against the IDF, who was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), according to the <a href="https://archive.ph/fVUeP">terrorist group&#8217;s website</a>. Birzeit <a href="https://archive.is/6jC0E">posted a photo</a> of Safi’s on-campus funeral, where attendees were seen holding flags of the student wing of the PFLP and Hamas’s al-Qassam brigade.
Hanan Ashrawi, chairman of the university’s board of trustees, denied that Hamas sexually assaulted Israeli civilians on October 7. Ashrawi has also defended Hezbollah, and endorsed the lynching of Israeli soldiers, according to <a href="https://camera-uk.org/2019/05/14/indy-fails-to-challenge-hanan-ashrawis-claim-shes-always-rejected-violence/">CAMERA UK</a>.
On October 11, Ashrawi said Israel’s &#8220;spin machine&#8221; was &#8220;manufacturing horrific lies in an orchestrated smear campaign claiming rape, slaughtering babies, beheadings, burnings alive,” and claimed Western media “immediately swallowed &amp; regurgitated such vile slander.” 
In March, Ashrawi denied a United Nations report that concluded Hamas committed sexual violence, stating that the report was invalid because it primarily included interviews with Israelis.
The Palestinian school <a href="https://www.birzeit.edu/en/about/history">describes</a> itself as a “thorn in the side of the occupation” and says it is committed to making an impact through “resistance.” Birzeit has a building named after Kamal Nasser, the leader of Black September, the terror group that kidnapped and killed 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Birzeit also has annual on-campus military parades where students honor Hamas and PFLP with mock suicide belts and rockets, and chants calling to “blow up the settler’s head,” the Middle East Media Research Institute <a href="https://www.memri.org/tv/rally-pflp-anniversary-birzeit-univeristy-west-bank-explosives-rockets-mobilize-blow-up-settlers-head">reported</a>.
The university’s student body has closely aligned itself with terrorist groups. During the school’s 2023 student council elections, the Hamas-affiliated Islamic Bloc won 25 of the 51 seats. The PFLP-affiliated group picked up six seats in the race, which had a 77 percent voter turnout, according to the <a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-744135">Jerusalem Post</a>.
Many Birzeit students have been arrested for assisting and joining terror groups. Last week, five members of Birzeit’s student council were arrested for attempting to carry out a shooting terror attack on behalf of Hamas. The group had an assault rifle and thousands of dollars in cash from Hamas at the time of arrest, the Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-university-students-in-west-bank-arrested-for-planning-significant-terror-attack/">reported</a>.
In 2022, Birzeit students were arrested for helping to launder money for terrorist attacks from Gaza to Hamas members in Turkey, The Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-718511">reported</a>. On X, Birzeit <a href="https://x.com/BirzeitU/status/1750214238050685286/photo/4">said</a> 140 students and four staff members were in prison in April.

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Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/john-fetterman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Fetterman</a> (D-PA) received a standing ovation after ripping off his Harvard University collar — and proclaiming that he was &#8220;profoundly disappointed&#8221; in his alma mater — during a commencement speech at Yeshiva University in New York.
Fetterman, who has been a vocal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-fetterman-responds-when-anti-israel-protesters-show-up-at-his-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supporter of Israel</a> since the devastating Hamas terror attacks on Israel last October 7th, explained that even though he himself had earned the Harvard collar when he graduated from the Ivy League institution, he did not feel right about wearing it given the school&#8217;s failure to deal with anti-Semitism on campus.
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To a standing ovation, Senator John Fetterman removed his Harvard Crimson hood during commencement today in outrage over the rampant antisemitism here on campus. This is what true leadership looks like! 
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&#8220;I was putting together my speech, and I started to reflect the way probably all of you do,&#8221; Fetterman began, noting that his last graduation had been some 25 years earlier when he earned his degree from Harvard University.
&#8220;It was literally a quarter-century ago, 25 years ago, and I was graduating from Harvard University,&#8221; he said, and after a pause, several in the audience booed. &#8220;But today, I have been profoundly disappointed in the way — Harvard’s inability to stand up for the Jewish community after October 7. And for me personally, I do not fundamentally believe that it is right for me to wear this today.&#8221;
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He removed his collar then, and the applause was immediate. Some in the audience cheered, and within seconds, they began to get to their feet, still clapping and cheering.
&#8220;The Jewish community everywhere deserves our support. And I promise you will always have mine,&#8221; Fetterman added.
The Pennsylvania Democrat has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-alum-john-fetterman-sounds-off-on-university-always-a-little-pinko-but-now-i-dont-recognize-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously criticized</a> his alma mater, particularly since the October 7th attacks, saying, &#8220;As an alum of Harvard — look, I graduated 25 years ago, and of course, it was always a little pinko. But now, I don’t recognize it.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harvard-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard University</a>, which has embroiled itself in controversy with 122 faculty members <a href="https://medium.com/@acfreedomfacstatement/harvard-faculty-response-to-combating-antisemitism-86ca47e87cdf">saying</a> that criticizing the deadly phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” is “imprudent” and a former president who refused to condemn anti-Semitic protests and calls for the genocide of Jews, has now <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/28/business/harvard-core-function/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decided</a> the university “should not, however, issue official statements about public matters that do not directly affect the university’s core function.”
In April, interim President Alan M. Garber and interim Provost John F. Manning announced the formation of the Institutional Voice Working Group to decide when Harvard as a university “should speak on matters of social and political significance and who should be authorized to speak for the institution as a whole,” the Harvard Gazette <a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/05/when-should-harvard-speak-out/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=5.28.24%20Institutional%20Voice%20(1)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The group was co-chaired by Noah Feldman, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Alison Simmons, the Samuel H. Wolcott Professor of Philosophy.
“The main point of the report is that the University’s leadership can and should speak out on anything relevant to the core function of the University, which is creating an environment suitable for free, open inquiry, teaching, and research,” Feldman stated. “That environment is threatened these days, and we need to defend it. At the same time, the University as an institution should not make official statements on issues outside its core function. Harvard isn’t a government. It shouldn’t have a foreign policy or a domestic policy.”
In January, Claudine Gay, the first black president in Harvard’s history, resigned after plagiarism allegations against her, her <a href="//0923F40A-3A98-4098-9793-691BD90F056C/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">initial silence</a> when 34 student groups blamed the October 7 Hamas massacre of over 1,200 Israelis solely on Israel, and her reluctance to condemn anti-Semitism when she testified before Congress. She also reportedly put together a task force after the death of George Floyd, with its stated goal being to diminish the number of white men who were visible in campus spaces.
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When the furor over Gay broke, eleven of the twelve members of the Harvard Corporation stood by her, writing, “As members of the Harvard Corporation, we today reaffirm our support for President Gay’s continued leadership of Harvard University. Our extensive deliberations affirm our confidence that President Gay is the right leader to help our community heal and to address the very serious societal issues we are facing.”
Virginia Kruta contributed to this article.
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The Harvard Corporation broke with the university&#8217;s faculty on Wednesday, and voted to deny thirteen seniors from graduating on Thursday because they broke university rules by participating in the 20-day long anti-Israel encampment.
Despite the faculty group overwhelmingly voting to confer the degrees to the anti-Israel students, the Corporation cited the student handbook rules requiring good standing for graduation in their decision.
“Today, we have voted to confer 1,539 degrees to Harvard College students in good standing,” the Corporation wrote in a statement on Wednesday, <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/22/harvard-corporation-overrides-faculty-vote-disciplined-seniors/">according to the Harvard Crimson</a>. “Because the students included as the result of Monday’s amendment are not in good standing, we cannot responsibly vote to award them degrees at this time.”
The Corporation is the university&#8217;s highest governing body and consists of 13 members, including Harvard&#8217;s interim president, Alan Garber. The annual Faculty of Arts and Sciences is a sparsely attended meeting where faculty vote to approve the list of degrees for conferral, according to the Crimson.
Student Shraddha Joshi <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C7SNiMhhKHA/?img_index=1">posted an email on her Instagram</a> that informed her that she would not be graduating this spring. 
“Because of your probation, you are not a student in good standing under the express provisions of the Harvard College Student Handbook, and as a result, the Corporation did not vote to confer your degree,” it states. 
Joshi is a co-organizer of the October statement blaming Hamas’s terror attack on Israel, according to <a href="https://canarymission.org/individual/Shraddha_Joshi">Canary Mission</a>.
Although during the meeting members made the case that they had the authority to allow the students to graduate and approve disciplinary actions, the Corporation disagreed that this power applied in this situation.
“We respect each faculty’s responsibility to determine appropriate discipline for its students,” the Corporation wrote. “Monday’s faculty vote did not, however, revisit these disciplinary rulings, did not purport to engage in the individualized assessment of each case that would ordinarily be required to do so, and, most importantly, did not claim to restore the students to good standing.”
The Corporation also mentioned concerns about the precedent breaking the handbook rules could set. 
“We also considered the inequity of exempting a particular group of students who are not in good standing from established rules, while other seniors with similar status for matters unrelated to Monday’s faculty amendment would be unable to graduate,” the Corporation wrote.
The 20-day encampment drew criticism from many Harvard affiliates including Garber himself who said the protesters were disruptive, caused events and exams to move, and had situations where people were harassed and followed. 
“The encampment favors the voices of a few over the rights of many who have experienced disruption in how they learn and work at a critical time of the semester,” Garber <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2024/encampment-in-harvard-yard/">wrote</a> in a May 6 statement threatening suspension. “I call on those participating in the encampment to end the occupation of Harvard Yard.”
The encampment ended last week after administrators negotiated with the anti-Israel students, reportedly agreeing to be lenient to those facing disciplinary action and allowing them to meet with governing boards about divesting from Israel.
On Friday, the Harvard College Administrative Board suspended five students and placed more than 20 more on probation, according to the Crimson.

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Harvard Corporation Breaks With Faculty, Votes To Block 13 Anti-Israel Encampment Protesters From Graduating

More than 500 Harvard University students, faculty, alumni, and other affiliates have now signed onto a letter urging action against escalating anti-Semitism on campus.
Sent to interim Harvard President Alan Garber Tuesday, the letter <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vQMG4ov0gPaHArc_bEGWX1qBKCbUVhDt5F1z55W59PUlS84oV4vi98kLCfZFrKn6pSJN2GLV6tXByUt/pub">calls for</a> “significant consequences” for the leaders of the 20-day anti-Israel encampment in Harvard Yard.
“While some have tried to associate the encampment with the long history of protests on Harvard&#8217;s campus, this one is distinct for its calls for violence and its active and targeted disruption of the lives of an identifiable group of minority students,” the letter states. Signatures are still being collected.
The letter comes after members of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences overwhelmingly voted to allow 13 students to graduate despite their suspension or probation for participating in the encampment. The Harvard Corporation broke with the faculty on Wednesday and <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/22/harvard-corporation-overrides-faculty-vote-disciplined-seniors/">declined</a> to give the degrees.
The letter claims students documented “numerous instances of inappropriate and egregious conduct, including harassment, denial of equal access to common areas on Harvard property, and threats of violence towards Jewish and Israeli students or their allies.”
Some Jewish and Israeli members of the Harvard community avoided walking through Harvard Yard to avoid anti-Semitism, and first-year students have complained that they have been unable to focus on their studies because of the disrupters, according to the letter.
“Some took extended breaks from campus before the end of the spring semester because they felt unsafe,” the letter states.
The encampment ended last week after the university negotiated with the protesters, reportedly agreeing to leniency for those facing disciplinary action and allowing encampment leaders to meet with governing boards about divesting from Israel.
The letter expresses disappointment over several professors&#8217; participation in the protest, accusing them of creating a hostile learning environment. 
“The involvement of Harvard faculty in these encampments, endorsing and sometimes leading teach-ins and chants, has created an unsafe learning environment for many Jews and Israelis,” the letter states. “This not only contradicts Harvard&#8217;s commitment to an inclusive educational experience but also emboldens extremist elements within our student body.”
During the encampment, Harvard Yard was largely restricted to university affiliates until a community member used bolt cutters to open a gate and allow 150 protesters onto campus, <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/13/breached-lock-protest-harvard-police/">according to campus police</a>. The letter describes this situation as a “severe escalation” that risked a crisis by bringing outside agitators onto campus.
Complaints were also raised regarding the encampments&#8217; so-called “marshalls” — students in yellow vests claiming they are ensuring people&#8217;s safety.
“Additionally, self-appointed encampment &#8216;marshals&#8217; in Harvard Yard have been stalking people who appear to be Jewish, speak Hebrew, or simply speak to other people who look Jewish,” the letter states.
Although Garber condemned intimidation and harassment from the encampment earlier this month, the letter states that the “galling acts” continued. 
“[T]he actions that culminated in the 20-day occupation of Harvard Yard have been poisoned by dehumanizing rhetoric and calls to violence against Jewish and Israeli individuals,” the letter states. “In addition, they have chanted for the ethnic cleansing of Israelis, and for violence against Jews. And they have held signs declaring ‘from the water to the water, Palestine will be Arab,’ along with large maps depicting the entire State of Israel as an imagined “Arab Palestine.” 
The letter also describes a “chilling” protest on Sunday outside of Garber’s home.
“For those of us who witnessed the march to your house on 5/19/24, the experience was particularly terrifying. President Garber, over 200 people stood outside your home, the residence of a Jewish family, and chanted &#8216;globalize the Intifada&#8217; and &#8216;Intifada coming to America&#8217;. The scene was chilling.&#8221;
The letter states that Garber&#8217;s current punishment of students is not enough, and accuses the university of rewarding their behavior with meetings while not giving the same to pro-Israel students.
“Not only have the consequences for these encampers been insufficient, they have actually been rewarded for their blatant disregard of Harvard policy,” the letter states. “According to the Crimson, in exchange for ending their illegal encampment, HOOP members were offered a meeting with at least one member of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility.”
Other demands in the letter include that the university publicly condemn anti-Semitism, enhance its investigative process, and enforce penalties.
Nearly 500 Harvard affiliates — including 350 faculty members — <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/22/open-letter-condemn-antisemitism-encampment/">signed onto</a> a letter Monday condemning the disciplinary action taken against the anti-Israel encampment protesters.

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