Mitchell Bard
JNS, May 5, 2022
“Anybody who wanted to talk about Jewish or Zionist power now had a Harvard and Kennedy School stamp of respectability with which they could inoculate their own ideas against the spurious and disingenuous charges of anti-Semitism which would be sure to follow.”
Harvard made headlines when it set up a $100 million endowment fund to research and redress its “extensive entanglements with slavery.” While Harvard’s role in slavery ended in 1781, anti-Semitism remains embedded at Harvard today, which begs the question: When will Harvard investigate and set up a fund to redress its more than 100-year history of anti-Semitism, including its employment of bigots, acceptance of funding from anti-Semites, welcoming of anti-Semites as faculty and speakers, promotion of anti-Semitic tropes, and tolerance of anti-Semitism on its campus?
Just the latest example of the sickness at Harvard was the decision by the editorial board of the Harvard Crimson to endorse the boycott of Israel. Yes, the “best and the brightest” America has to offer are so profoundly ignorant—to be charitable—that they have joined the call for the destruction of Israel without so much as a mention of how Hamas and the Palestinian Authority deny Palestinians their most fundamental rights, including freedom of speech and freedom of the press.
As of my writing, the Harvard administration’s response has been silence.
It should not be surprising that Harvard students are so intellectually and morally challenged so as to endorse the destruction of Israel given their environment.
Mitchell Bard is a foreign-policy analyst and an authority on U.S.-Israel relations who has written and edited 22 books, including “The Arab Lobby, Death to the Infidels: Radical Islam’s War Against the Jews” and “After Anatevka: Tevye in Palestine.”
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