Harvard alumni, Jewish and non-Jewish allies. ๐บ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ฑ News about our activities plus campus antisemitism at large. Reposts are not endorsements
We are the Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance, and we call on
@Columbia
to immediately drop their witch hunt against professor
@ShaiDavidai
Join Prof. Davidai to stand up for Jewish students โ and academic integrity. By targeting his work, you are sabotaging your own mission
My name is Eden Yadegar, Iโm a student at
@Columbia
University, and I call on my administration to immediately drop their witch hunt against professor
@ShaiDavidai
.
Prof. Davidai has done more to stand up for Jewish students on campus than our entire administration combined.
Harvard graduation speaker and Nobel laureate Maria Ressa says she was โcalled antisemitic by power and money because they want power and moneyโ
Now before we jump to conclusions, letโs acknowledge she has received vile hate based on false allegations. We as Jews relate
BREAKING: Harvard alumni group releases its own report today on how Harvard as an institution โ
its curricula and faculty โ
systemically planted and spread the seeds of hatred for Israel and Jews well before October 7th, 2023
Download the full report:
An antisemitism check:
1. Which people are after money and power?
2. How is this greed related to fighting antisemitism?
If no such precision exists, find another metaphor
Otherwise, the speech implies that antisemitism is a fake complaint made in the quest for money & power
But Harvard should have had someone vet these words before theyโre uttered in the heated climate of 2024
Harvard should have higher standards for its own graduation ceremony
Whereโs the academic rigor?
Whereโs this context we heard so much about?
A common antisemitic trope is that Jews are only after money and power, whether weโre talking about actual Jews or people/orgs aligned with Jews
Attribute this type of greed to shadowy figures calling out antisemitism, and you run into problems
"The bigotry infecting campuses will spread until college presidents directly address its causes and their own role in fostering them. If not nowโas students cheer the intentional slaughter of civiliansโwhen?"
1,000 people walk out of Harvard commencement โfor Palestineโ
Lyrics from their reel:
You will die of terror from the ground, we will emerge like a jinn, squirt
I am like a nuclear weapon, a deadly weapon
In Gaza, men dig tunnels
She returns with a sack full of body parts
What does it look like to stand up for integrity?
Thank you,
@JohnFetterman
!
If you need to recover from seeing faculty wearing regalia at the encampment, watch this short clip:
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!
๐ฅ
@safier
Birzeit University which partners w/
@RutgersU
:
-Barred Jewish students from attending as of 2014.
-Has buildings named after convicted terrorists.
-Hamas won a majority of its student gov.
@RepSmucker
: "Is this really an institution Rutgers should be partnering with?"
I told you Claudine Gay wouldnโt be fired and the faculty were spineless. What hurts is the โunanimityโ of the alumni association
@HarvardAlumni
. Itโs a lie. The
@HarvardJews
alumni disagree. Non-Jewish classmates have told me they disagree. Not one dissenting voice? Disgraceful.
โThere are entire Harvard courses and programs and events that are premised on antisemitic lies,โ
@DaraHorn
, a writer and Harvard graduate who last year served on an antisemitism advisory board convened by former Harvard president Claudine Gay
Eurovision said it was โtoo political.โ
But tonight, our Queen, Eden Golan, who heroically faced off the haters of Europe, performed โOctober Rainโ, the song that shouldโve won Eurovision, for the first time in public, at the Tel Aviv Hostages Square rally.
Harvard commencement was a dystopian, radicalizing event even when not evoking antisemitism
โWeโre standing on the rubble of the world that wasโ
โOur world on fire needs you. So, Class of 2024, welcome to the battlefieldโ
โ Nobel laureate Maria Ressa
Journalist Maria Ressa warned graduates of fascism due to Big Tech in her Commencement address Thursday, asking them to โchoose their best selfโ in response.
@HaidarEmma
&
@cam_kettles
report.
We are so honored and moved by your message,
@Isaac_Herzog
.
We believe that Harvard must do better. We believe that it is only together that we can build a more inclusive and freer world.
Thank you for meeting with our delegation!
I met yesterday evening, with a distinguished delegation of
@HarvardJews
, Jewish alumni of
@Harvard
University - perhaps the jewel in the crown of the American Ivy League.
Today Harvard, and all Americaโs academic institutions face a historic challenge. The horrific rise in
So proud of
@ShabbosK
and everyone who stood up for Jews and for liberal values! This is courage. This is encouraging.
Mazal tov on finishing the school year ๐
HAPPENING NOW: On the last night of the semester, we decided to read the names of the 1,300 Oct 7th victims in front of the pro-Hamas Harvard encampment. We are praying for our hostages and soldiers. We are also praying for our universities to find their moral courage once again
Today, we joined New Yorkers, families of the hostages, & survivors of the 10/7 massacre
@CelebrateIsrael
to stand up in support of beleaguered
#Zionist
students on campus!
The โค๏ธ๐โค๏ธ
@FAAM_network
@TheAENetwork
was shown today was incredible ๐ฅฐ
TY
@JCRCNY
for organizing us! ๐งต
Antisemitism at Harvard graduation: UPDATE
Earlier draft of Maria Ressaโs speech included a message of tolerance:
โFor the protestors: when you hid your face in a keffiyeh, did you place yourself in the shoes of another student wearing a yarmulke just wanting to walk to class?โ
A common antisemitic trope is that Jews are only after money and power, whether weโre talking about actual Jews or people/orgs aligned with Jews
Attribute this type of greed to shadowy figures calling out antisemitism, and you run into problems
Harvard student testimony:
"People think I am a monster. I have heard people say, 'Zionists should be slain.'"
"I am scared to be a Jew here right now."
"Israelis are the only people where their nationality is held against them."
full report:
Big win: Harvard announces it will cease taking official positions on public policy issues
Itโs one of the objectives we laid out as the Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance
BREAKING: Harvard announced on Tuesday that the University and its leadership will refrain from taking official positions on controversial public policy issues.
@HaidarEmma
and
@cam_kettles
report.
Please help us by expressing your outrage:
1Withhold donations to Harvard
2Inform your non-Jewish alumni friends of Harvardโs fecklessness
3Support institutions that protect liberal values
4Tell your Senators & Representative where you stand on antisemitism in education
There is absolutely no accountability at
@Harvard
.
If I have anything to do with it, I'll make sure that the history books will remember the callous
@Harvard
administration AND all the donors who kept it afloat.
Every decent American - Jews and non-Jews - should pull their
The leadership of Harvard-Epworth Church, the venue that held the pro-Palestine โPeopleโs Commencementโ, said they were angered and dismayed that the church became the site of a large-scale protest.
@e1ysegoncalves
and
@matanjosephy
report.
The Soil Beneath the Encampment: How Israel and Jews Became the Focus of Hate at Harvard
Round of applause to
@jessicalevin6
@ZoeBernstein1
who made this remarkable report happen!
Anti-Semitic posts on Harvard's Sidechat per the report: "Gas the Jews" and "All of you Zionists are...killers and rapists of children!"
A faculty member is quoted: "the last place you will have a free, interesting discussion is a Harvard classroom."
The Harvard faculty's vote to overturn discipline for students involved in the virulently anti-Israel/anti-Semitic conduct shows they cannot be impartial arbiters. The Corporation must uphold discipline, or Harvard's integrity will be severely damaged
Harvard facultyโs imperious power grab undermines Harvardโs institutional integrity
The same faculty who support the systemic demonization of Jews at Harvard now demands to override the disciplinary ad board, even though the conduct in question is well outside the classroom
Jewish & Israeli students face harassment not only from peers but also from Harvard faculty and teaching staff
Harvard classrooms & events replay a virulently one-sided script "Israel, the only Jewish state, along with its supporters, [as embodying] the world's worst evils."
WATCH: Eyal Yakoby, an undergraduate student at University of Pennsylvania, talks about the harassment that Jewish students face on college campuses โฌ๏ธ
Social media posts from Harvard faculty and staff call Jews โthe most powerful people on the planetโ
accuse Harvard administrators of โkissing the feet of Zionist power,โ
and more
You need to read this from
@IraStoll
Harvard Yard closed until Friday to preempt the chaos seen at Columbia and Yale over the weekend
We welcome the enforcement of Harvardโs own code of conduct
Harvard still needs to address any systemic antisemitism
EXCELLENT dissent from
@JacobMeirMiller
๐๐๐
โFor three weeks, students sat in the middle of Harvard Yard declaring themselves part of the โstudent intifadaโ โ or successors to two waves of terrorism that collectively killed hundreds of Israeli civiliansโ
Dissent in
@CrimsonOpinion
: There is No Palestine Exception
It's a choice to view Harvard's actions as a Palestine exception to free speech โ a choice that buries the antisemitism that has plagued the pro-Palestinian movement.
@JacobMeirMiller
writes.
Antisemitism engulfs Harvard, then come lawsuits, committees, administration shakeups, congressional hearings, an encampment, criminal charges โ and why?
Itโs Harvardโs own fault.
Majority of then-President Gayโs antisemitism advisory group threatened to resign, and their recommendations were ignored
Harvard is still claiming antisemitism has no place on campus while denying it needs to be addressed
Kinda like โthose Jews deserve itโ I mean Zionists
We have just filed a lawsuit against Harvard.
For too long, Harvard has allowed, and in many cases, promoted, antisemitism on campus.
This lawsuit gives a voice for all those who have been on the receiving end of hatred, bigotry, and discrimination
Harvard's abject failure to address rampant antisemitism on campus is a dereliction of duty and an utter disgrace. A damning new report exposes the university's cowardice
Breaking: Harvard was slow to react to hostilities against Jewish students last fall and ignored calls to address rising antisemitism, a Congressional report finds
The Harvard Political Review conducted a softball interview with the student leaders of the encampment. In it, they manage to both accuse Jews of racism and argue that Zionism is inherently antisemitic. I give up ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
An open letter signed by
@UCIrvine
students, faculty and community members is criticizing the UCI History Department's decision to not renew OC Hillel Rabbi Daniel Levine's contract to teach the Jewish Texts course. The letter accuses the department of replacing Levine with two
Harvard used to stand for academic rigor and conscientious ethics
Now? Vibes
If protesters are gleeful, they get a pass when calling for the destruction of liberal values
Theyโre laundering blood libel, but their hearts are in the right place
Sorry, ice cream is not kale
Welcome to the new Harvard, where my classmates have normalized gleeful chants for the violent destruction of the United States of America and the Jewish homeland. For the third day in a row, Harvard has not condemned this.
Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine Coalition, an unrecognized pro-Palestine student group, accused The Crimson of anti-Palestinian bias in its coverage and said it would boycott the paper until May 6 in a Friday letter.
Emma Haidar and Cam Kettles report.
โItโs indoctrination, not education. The last place you will have a free, interesting discussion is a Harvard classroom." - Prof Shai Davidai
An incredible audit of the pre- and post- October 7 anti-Jewish environment at
@Harvard
by the Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance
Itโs our hope that Harvardโs next President begins their term by loudly and clearly stating that antisemitism has absolutely no place on campus, that strong action will follow to make that commitment a reality, and
@boston25
Please join us in our mission to counter the degradation of academic standards and ensure a single set of conduct standards applies to all students.
We are here if you want or need to talk. Anonymous because thatโs what it has come to. Reach out at audit
@harvardjewishalumni
.org
โAs the students banged drums and chanted, the rest of campus life continued almost undisturbed in the Yardโ
Other than the banging, the chanting, the Palestinian flag replacing the American flag again, a barrier of tents and chairs blocking the Yard, ID refusal itโs all normal!
Students staging a pro-Palestine encampment in Harvard Yard refused to submit to ID checks on Tuesday as tension mounted between protesters and administrators on day 14 of the occupation.
@MacHealey
,
@Jo_Lemann
, and
@azusalippit
report.
Students began a petition demanding Harvard drop all chargers against the anti-Israel encampment protestors. To demonstrate how little these Harvard students know about the conflict, please take a look at
#12
๐
To this day, Harvard hasn't made public data on antisemitic incidents nor taken concrete disciplinary actions. Just hollow lip service as Jewish students' safety is endangered
Ivy League schools indoctrinate hate and teach how to lie
If you canโt make it as an actual scholar,
If you canโt hack it as a policy maker/service member actually improving the lives of Palestinians,
Come indoctrinate kids to hate! Blindly!
Wonder why there is so much anti-Israel rhetoric on college campuses?
Well, here is an
@penn
course image where a map is shown erasing Israel and replacing it with Palestine.
โMoney and powerโ was clearly referencing social media in this earlier draft
At graduation:
โBecause I accepted your invitation to be here today, I was attacked online and called antisemitic by power & money, because they want power and moneyโ
โProfessors should not be carrying their ideologies into the classroom. Our job as teachers of โcitizens and citizen-leadersโ is not to indoctrinate students, but to prepare them to grapple with all of the ideas they will encounter in the societies they will serve.โ
We are writing with good news!
First, we are proud to announce that HJAA has been officially recognized by
@HarvardAlumni
/the University as a Special Interest Group. For the 1st time, Jewish alumni have an official voice at the University.
Our own Clarence Schwab, โThe school would not, and should not, tolerate menacing conduct aimed at Blacks or Latinos or the LGBTQ community. We want one standard applied equally to all.โ
โFalastin Arabiaโ โ meaning โan Arab Palestineโ โ from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea eliminates the state of Israel
Students at the
@Harvard
Science Center calling for the elimination of Israel yesterday at a walk out
โItโs Harvard ppl themselves who are damning Harvard w this report,โ Foxx said. โThat isnโt coming from us.โ
โItโs the antisemitism advisory group that found all these things that were going on at Harvard, they gave the report to the administration, & then the admin did nothingโ
What are they teaching students?
What are they representing as instructors in a leading university?
Same as all antisemites in history: theyโre scapegoating the Jews as a flex and as a practice run
Theyโre after more power
Theyโll corrupt any principle to get it
In the context of the national discourse, Stanford unequivocally condemns calls for the genocide of Jews or any peoples. That statement would clearly violate Stanfordโs Fundamental Standard, the code of conduct for all students at the university.
โHistory is watching youโ
Yes, history is watching Harvard enforce its own code of conduct
History will tell whether Harvard can find its way back to Veritas
None of the accusations in the article are supported by fact
A Harvard employee, acting against Harvard policy, tears down hostage posters
With the tension on campus, the lawsuits, the congressional investigation โ how easy would it have been for Harvard to give a quick policy refresh to its employees?
Just apply your own rules equally
Harvard employees caught in the act of tearing hostage posters.
On the request of our Israeli students to raise awareness of the suffering of their loved ones being held hostage in Gaza, Harvard Chabad has been sponsoring posters of their loved ones. Against university policy
Opening the โpeacefulโ Peopleโs Conference for Palestine:
- speaker explains this revolution is built upon the sacrifices of thousands of "martyrs" and fighters
- reads a poem about Ghassan Kanafani by Communist poet Jester, davel
Shoufani discusses how this revolution is built upon the sacrifices of thousands of "martyrs" and fighters. She then reads a poem about Ghassan Kanafani by Communist poet Jester, davel.
She then welcomes everyone to the conference.
"Welcome to the conference and welcome to the
Jewish students were spat on, harassed, and threatened with violence - with calls to "gas" them receiving support on Harvard's own platforms
Yet the administration turned a blind eye and failed to act
Harvard University Dining Services is in the process of ensuring that the majority of the chicken served in their dining halls is halal, according to a statement from a HUDS spokesperson.
Isabella G. Schauble reports.
Harvard needs to exit the cycle of political grievance, in which extremists on both sides push each other further apart and further away from the truth
The House committee report on Harvard and antisemitism is clearly a political document, and I am sure is not fully balanced. Nonetheless, the evidence directly from members of Harvardโs anti-semitism advisory group is very troubling. It confirms the suspicions of many of that the
So the encampment
@penn
was disbanded today and weapons were found in the encampment. Yet, the protestors have the audacity to add additional demands.
1. $30-$50 million sent to Gaza
2. No study abroad to Israel
3. Define genocide
โJews, [students] insisted, are more than adequately represented among the elite, and belong to โthe oppressor class.โโ
Antisemitism at Harvard started long before Claudine Gay
What's the root cause of the rise in what many see as anti-Semitic sentiments on college campuses these days? Tabia Lee, my guest at TGS this week and a former DEI official in California, has a hypothesis that makes sense to me. It's the DEI ethos! Here's a clip making her point.
Happy Passover! Love this Passover post from the Harvard Club UK.
May we all have the freedom to celebrate together!
It means the world to be so welcomed ๐
Thank you so much!!
Harvard Crimeson (get it?) spoof handed out at graduation. Highlight:
โThe Crimson Refuses to Talk About Palestineโ
For your reference, screenshot of the 1st 5 pages of results for โPalestineโ on the Crimsonโs website
Harvard commencement was an absolute disaster and a breathtaking display of normalized antisemitism. Students handed out a fake newspaper accusing Jews of racism for arguing that calls for an โintifadaโ are in fact violent. As usual, no condemnation.
Last night, I screened the film of Hamas atrocities at
@Harvard
. This is the first time the film was screened at a U.S. university and I felt it was very importance that it happen at Harvard first.
Since the October 7th massacre, we have seen a sharp increase in antisemitism on
We are alarmed by calls for a global intifada as a response to the administration enacting appropriate consequences for violence against a Jewish student.
Alarming chant at
@Harvard
today with calls for an Intifada. This isn't just a term; it's a painful history of violence. Remembering the Second Intifada, we must confront the gravity of such words.
The Second Intifada was a deadly terrorism campaign targeting Israeli civilians
โIt is a choice to view the Universityโs actions as a Palestine exception to free speech โ a choice that brushes under the rug the long-festering antisemitism that has plagued Harvardโs pro-Palestinian movementโ
More blood libel from Harvard student groups
Donโt they have a faculty advisor? Faculty at their residence house?
Is this another example of Harvard faculty quietly supporting vile antisemitic tropes?
Theyโre not even advanced antisemitic tropes. Ivy League dialing it in
Insanity continues: The Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee, along with five other student groups, affirm that Palestinian terrorism is a โlabor of loveโฆagainst the Zionist entity.โ I donโt think people realize how normalized the promotion of terrorism is at Harvard
As we mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, we connect to the loss of 6 million Jewish lives, the deaths of all, & the anguish of persecution. We commit to combatting antisemitism & reaffirming civil rights at Harvard
#InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay
1/3 Resigning, a Hanukkah Message: As of today I have resigned from the antisemitism advisory committee at Harvard. Without rehashing all of the obvious reasons that have been endlessly adumbrated online, and with great respect for the members of the committee, the short
Whatโs the vibe on
@Harvard
campus like when these anti-Israel protests break out?
Thank you,
@FaulknerFocus
for the conversation with our own Roni Brunn!
We will not be cowed or stayed from calling out those who abet attacks on our community through puny administrative inertia. Not at Harvard, not anywhere. Not ever again
Spurred on by concerns from students and alumni, CAMERA investigated what's going on at
@BrownUniversity
. What we found was truly disturbing.
Rather than focusing on advancing the rigorous study of the Palestinian people,
@BrownCMES
has devolved into promoting antisemitic
Want to see how โpeacefulโ protests are
@penn
? Watch as the campers harass a student simply walking on his own campus.
Threats and flashing strobe lights were not included in the Penn Welcome Pamphlet.
The bravery of this student should be applauded.