Unless you are a no-doubt thrilled anti-Semite, I don’t know how Harvard can ever regain even a fraction of the reputation it once had.
From Isabel Vincent’s article in today’s New York Post:
A professor who appeared beside a top Hamas leader was due to speak on “genocide” at Harvard Monday — the same day as a deadline for the university to finally comply with a congressional subpoena demanding answers on antisemitism.
Noura Erakat, an associate professor of Africana studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey, was scheduled to speak on “We Charge Genocide; The Potential and Limits of International Law,” at the school’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies — after months of making anti-Israeli speeches.
The lecture by the controversial academic, who is also a human rights attorney, came amid mounting accusations that Harvard has failed to tackle antisemitism on its campus in the wake of the Hamas massacre of hundreds of innocent Israelis on October 7.
Another hit job on Israel at Harvard. Are you surprised?
Me neither.
Are you wondering when Harvard will feature a speaker that has a position other than that Israel is a rogue, murderous state which should apologize for existing, and/or apologize for defending itself against a murderous invasion and/or not exist at all?
Me too.
And Are you wondering what Harvard (and it is far from the only college/university this can be said about) is doing to protect Jewish students from being harassed/attacked for the crime of being Jewish?
Me too.
Harvard’s reputation, it seems self-evident to me, has been irreparably damaged.
But Harvard has racked up one major accomplishment: it has proven that the worst wounds can be the ones that are self-inflicted.
In that regard, it has done a bang-up job.
