"On October 7, 2023, Hamas jihadists committed an unspeakably evil atrocity against Jews living in Israel. Within hours of the Nazi-like pogrom, nearly three dozen separate groups of Harvard University students blamed the Jews for it."
. . ."Did the Harvard “Students for Justice in Palestine” (SJP) chapter have, as a recently filed lawsuit alleges the Columbia SJP chapter had, advance knowledge of the massacre? (Columbia SJP has denied the allegations). Inquiring minds would certainly like to know.
"But these days, Harvard is not a hospitable place for free inquiry.
"Don’t get me wrong: Harvard certainly thinks of itself as a bastion of free inquiry. That was the moral high ground Harvard attempted to claim in its recent denunciation of the Trump administration’s attempt to enforce civil rights on campus. And that was the moral high ground Harvard again attempted to claim this week, when it released its much-anticipated report on campus anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias. In the report, Harvard purports to lament the rise of post-October 7 campus Jew-hatred, but it deigns to offer only toothless and symbolic suggestions for what to actually do about it.
"Harvard cannot claim to care about the plight of Jews on its campus while simultaneously suing for its “right” to bilk the American taxpayer while appearing to defy the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It’s really that simple. Some circles just can’t be squared.
"The reality is that the Harvard Americans once knew has been occupied. Once upon a time, Harvard held a privileged place in the minds of decent and intelligent Americans – a shining intellectual city on a hill. But in recent years, it seems to have been – first intellectually and then, literally, physically – occupied by an alliance of radical Islamists and far-Left Marxists, with the apparent approval of liberals who will rush to defend anything out of their own Jew-hatred and/or Trump-hatred.
"It can be difficult to figure out the paranoid, irritable reactionary gestures that pass for liberal political thought these days.
"But here is what’s not hard to figure out: the facts. The Harvard Kennedy School had an alleged financier of Hamas – a man accused of helping to fund the tunnels used for the October 7 attack – on its Dean’s Council (he has denied the allegations). In its negotiations with the Trump administration, Harvard has literally threatened to kill lab animals.
"One must ask: If it walks like a Hamas-occupied territory and it talks like a Hamas-occupied territory, then what is it?
"That’s what the Trump administration would like to know. Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, and Linda McMahon, the US education secretary, just want to know the facts – and to enforce the law. But Harvard gives the impression of believing that it is above the law." . . .
