Harvard Releases Report On Antisemitism: Impacted Campus Life Worse ‘Than We Would Have Imagined’—
On Wednesday, Harvard University released its internal report titled “Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias.”
“[A] new generation of student activists seems to have begun to perceive Israel as a symbol and vehicle of the evils of the United States and the rest of the Western world,” the report stated. “A Harvard faculty member who works closely with students reported to us that some Jewish students choose to hide their identities on campus, which was something the faculty member could not have imagined would ever be the case at Harvard.”
Thereportnotedan“antisemiticcartooncirculatedinFebruary2024bygroupsofpro-PalestinianHarvardstudents,staff,andfacultyonsocialmedia.Thecartoon,depictingawhitehandwithaJewishstarholdinganoosearoundtheheadsofaBlackman(MuhammadAli)andanArabman(GamalAbdelNasser),camefrom1960sBlackstudentactivism,anditwaswidelycondemnedasantisemiticbyBlackleadersatthattime.”
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