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Posted - December 16, 2023 at 6:36 PM

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Harvard's Widener Library has become a site of protest, with students wearing kaffiyehs and displaying banners condemning Israel. This has raised concerns about the impact on the study environment, particularly for Jewish and Israeli students. The author questions whether Harvard's leadership condones this behavior and whether it creates a welcoming atmosphere for all students.

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Claudine Gay promised to prevent ‘disruptions of the Harvard classroom experience.’ How’s that working out? When @SenDanSullivan visited his alma mater last weekend and walked into the Widener Library, "I couldn’t believe my eyes. Nearly every student in the packed room was wearing a kaffiyeh. Fliers attached to their individual laptops, as well as affixed to some of the lamps in the reading room, read: 'No Normalcy During Genocide—Justice for Palestine.' A young woman handed the fliers to all who entered. A large banner spread across one end of the room stated in blazing blood-red letters, 'Stop the Genocide in Gaza.'" Sullivan talks about how Widener Library was a "revered place of quiet study for tens of thousands of Harvard students and alumni....Imagine if you were an 18-year-old Jewish or Israeli student, or even a pro-Israel Catholic like me, and you wanted to study for your chemistry final in the Widener Reading Room on a Sunday morning. Imagine being confronted by this protest, obviously condoned by Harvard’s leadership and commandeered by the Palestine Solidarity Committee, the group behind the notorious statement that holds 'the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence' in the immediate aftermath of the Oct. 7 attack. Would you feel welcome in Harvard’s most famous library? Would you feel rattled, intimidated and harassed by the anti-Israel banner screaming 'Stop the Genocide in Gaza'"? https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-antisemitic-occupation-of-harvards-widener-library-politics-anti-israel-bias-e4cea52a?st=u80svfd2o4znxw5&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Opinion | An Antisemitic Occupation of Harvard’s Widener Library Claudine Gay promised to prevent ‘disruptions of the classroom experience.’ How’s that working out? wsj.com

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Posted - December 12, 2023 at 1:51 PM

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A Harvard student criticizes the decision to retain Claudine Gay, highlighting the double standards regarding Jewish people. The hypocrisy is evident when compared to how other minorities are treated. The issue of antisemitism is brought to light.

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A Harvard Jewish student reacts to the news that Claudine Gay will keep her job. He nails it. Jews do not count. "What if this was a different minority? What if Claudine Gay had said this about Black people, about Gay people, about Asian Americans?" "When it comes to Jewish people, all of a sudden we wish we could do something, but we just can’t because of the First Amendment, is breathtaking in its hypocrisy" #Antisemitism

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The speaker criticizes Harvard's handling of recent incidents involving Jewish students and calls for the resignation of the university president. They argue that Harvard has failed to protect Jewish students and has shown hypocrisy in its commitment to free speech. The speaker highlights the negative consequences of the president's leadership, including financial losses, investigations, and allegations of misconduct. They question why the faculty supports the president and emphasize the university's lack of action in enforcing policies against hate speech. The speaker concludes that Harvard's stance on protecting Jewish students is hypocritical given its previous actions against other forms of discrimination.

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Speaker 0: 23 calling for the genocide of Jewish people would be considered context dependent according to the best academic institution in the world, and the individual who calls for that, is able to keep their job. So the faculty letter talks about the importance of resisting outside political pressure. And I would actually agree with that. I'm hardly a billionaire, but I certainly welcome open discourse concerning the university's hiring and firing practices and their fair enforcement of the student conduct standard, something that we have not seen before. I'm also one of a 1000, current students and alumni who called for the president to resign. So what I would ask those faculty, and I certainly disagree with them respectfully, but I would ask them to, number 1, talk to us. Talk to Jewish students and see what our experience has been the past 3 months. And then I would also ask them, what if this was a different minority? What if Claude And let's also be very clear. Under Claudine Gay's leadership over the last, 3 months, there has been an almost complete destruction of Harvard's reputation, the loss of more than $1,000,000,000 in donations, 2 different congressional investigations, calls for further federal action, charges of plagiarism, and falsifying her own data in her nation, a total moral moral abdication of leadership. So I'm confused as to why people ask me why I think that she should resign as opposed to me asking them why should she stay? And they welcome the sudden interest and commitments to free expression and the first amendment. But we have to keep in mind that this is a president whose university mandates that all students, attend the title 9 training where they are told that cishetero, sexism, and fatphobia are forms of violence using the wrong pronouns as a form of abuse, where Ronald Sullivan, who was a beloved professor, was fired representing an objectionable client where only 3% of the faculty openly identify as conservative. And as you said, ranked 248 out of 248 universities when it came to free speech. So the fact that we we would love to do something for Jewish students and protect Jewish students, but we just because we have a commitment to the first amendment when you and I both know that Harvard does not have a legal obligation to protect students who are engaging in violent rhetoric concerning Jewish students, And they don't have historical precedent of ever enforcing these policies to begin with. Just last year, when a student was engaged in a homophobic incident, He was condemned almost immediately, and he was expelled a couple years ago when you had about 10 different students who were accepted, and it turned out that they had submitted racist posts on social media, the student the the university suspended them and rescinded their acceptance. So the fact that when it comes to Jewish people, all of a We wish we could do something, but we just can't because of the first amendment is is breathtaking in its hypocrisy.

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Posted - December 5, 2023 at 4:34 PM

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Jewish college students are telling Congress today about the unrestrained #antisemitism sweeping their campuses. I was particularly moved by Bella Ingber, a junior at @nyuniversity. Shame on NYU and other schools for their stunning failure to protect Jewish students. https://t.co/obWCeQxqL0

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Bella Inger, a junior at NYU, shares her experiences as a Jew on campus. She describes encountering torn and defaced posters, unauthorized protests calling for violence against Jews, and a lack of support from social justice warriors and feminists. Bella also recounts being physically assaulted while wearing an American Israeli flag, with her attacker still freely roaming the campus. She compares the current antisemitism at NYU to the Jew hatred her Holocaust survivor grandparents experienced. Bella calls on the NYU administration to enforce their own rules and protect Jewish students, stating that antisemitism and support for terror have no place on any college campus.

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Speaker 0: Giving me the opportunity to share with you my story. My name is Bella Inger. I'm a junior at NYU, and I'm going to try to answer the following question for you from my personal experiences. What is it like to be a Jew at NYU? Being a Jew at NYU Is walking to class and passing torn and defaced posters of innocent hostages with the words occupier and murderer written across their faces. It is going to Bost library to study and being interrupted by unauthorized protests where students and faculty call for a globalized intifada revolution, an incitement to violence against Jews everywhere, and a call for the annihilation of the Jewish state and my friends and family who live there. Being a Jew at NYU is being surrounded by students and faculty who support the murder and kidnapping of Jews because after all, as they say, Resistance is justified when people are occupied. It is being surrounded by social justice warriors and self proclaimed feminists whose calls for justice end abruptly when the rape victims are Jews. Being a Jew at NYU has meant being physically assaulted in NYU's library by a fellow student while I was wearing an American Israeli flag and having my attacker still roam freely throughout the campus. Being a Jew at NYU is experiencing how diversity, equity, and inclusion is not a value that NYU extends to its Jewish students. Since October 7, the unmistakable antisemitism that I've experienced on campus is reminiscent of the Jew hatred I've heard about from my grandparents, Holocaust survivors, who experienced firsthand the deafening silence of their neighbors in Poland and Germany when the Nazis first rose to power. As anti semitic rhetoric and actions became more and more acceptable, their Communities stocks were looted, their synagogues defaced, and finally their families were taken away and perished in concentration camps. Today, in 2023, at NYU, I hear calls to gazp the Jews, and I am told that Hitler was right. To the NYU administration, you are not free to selectively enforce your own rules. You are not free To refuse your Jewish students the same protections that you extend to others. NYU has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Association's definition of anti Semitism, which recognizes that calls to harm Jews in the name of radical ideology, calls to eradicate Israel, To deny the Jewish people their right to self determination in their ancestral homeland is antisemitism that is punishable under NYU's code of conduct. I'm a proud Jew and I'm a proud Zionist. I am the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. We are not going anywhere. Antisemitism and the support for terror should have no home at NYU or any other college campus. We made the promise of never again and never again is now. Thank you.