The Crimson Mask: Harvard’s Institutional Antisemitism Finally Laid Bare

Charlton Allen  

"One senior administration official put it starkly: Harvard has earned “the regrettable distinction of being among the most prominent and visible breeding grounds for race discrimination” in American higher education. The warning was clear: comply—or lose access to billions in federal funding."

"Harvard’s reputation rests on prestige, but its foundation has long harbored—and indeed, has long embraced—exclusion. For generations, Americans may have accepted that Harvard was elite, even aloof, but assumed its exclusivity was academic in nature.

"No more. The truth is far more insidious. Exclusion isn’t incidental at Harvard—it’s institutional. It is woven into the DNA of the Crimson, the natural consequence of deliberate choices made by the Harvard Corporation, the oldest continuous corporate body in the Western Hemisphere, and university administrators.

"From race-based admissions policies to the uncritical embrace of DEI orthodoxy, recent years have peeled away the façade. What’s been revealed is not merely a campus of cloistered minds but a closed caste system—insular, intolerant, and impervious to dissent.

"And standing at the center of this revelation is Harvard itself: not a victim of cultural decay, but an architect of it.

"Nowhere is that decay more malignant than in the elite-sanctioned discrimination directed at Jewish students, scholars, and voices. At Harvard, antisemitism has long been more than tolerated—it’s been rationalized, embedded, and enforced by the very structures that claim to champion equity and inclusion." . . .

. . ."The findings are blunt. According to the report, Harvard didn’t merely overlook antisemitism—it allowed it to fester." (Emphasis mine, TD) 

Charlton Allen is an attorney and former chief executive officer and chief judicial officer of the North Carolina Industrial Commission. He is founder of the Madison Center for Law & Liberty, Inc., editor of The American Salient, and host of the Modern Federalist podcast. His commentary has been featured in American Thinker and linked across multiple RealClear platforms, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearWorld, RealClearDefense, RealClearHistory, and RealClearPolicy.