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Harvard’s stonewalling proves it still doesn’t care about antisemitism on campus

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Harvard is still failing its Jewish students.

The House Education and the Workforce Committee was forced to subpoena top Harvard officials, including Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow Penny Pritzker and Interim President Dr. Alan Garber, after the school flouted a Wednesday deadline to turn over documents on its handling of antisemitism on campus.

The committee initially requested the material, including internal communications and meeting minutes relating to antisemitism or the war in Israel and Gaza, back on Jan. 9.

The university’s response?

“After a reasonable search and review to date, Harvard has not identified meeting minutes in connection” with the committee’s request.

Committee charwoman Rep. Virginia Foxx pointed out the outrageousness of this: “It would be shocking if the Board of Overseers and Harvard Management Company thought protecting Harvard’s Jewish students was so insignificant that the topic was not worthy of discussion at a single meeting.”

By late January, the university had turned over a batch of documents that included over 1,000 pages of publicly available information, which Rep. Foxx slammed as “woefully inadequate.”

Harvard was then given a final warning to fully comply with the committee’s request and turn over “priority documents.” It blew that off, too.

The university’s nonchalance and stonewalling proves that administrators still refuse to take the scourge of antisemitism on its campus seriously — and there’s plenty of evidence they never did.

During her testimony before the committee, then-President Claudine Gay wouldn’t even confirm that calling for the genocide of Jews would violate the university’s code of conduct, and hid behind the university’s supposed support for “free speech.”

At the same time, Harvard has made sure to emphasize that using non-preferred pronouns is “abuse” that would constitute harassment.

Fact is, the school has shown its indifference to Jew-hatred repeatedly: first by failing to adequately address allegations of harassment of Jews on its campus in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, then by refusing to fire Gay after her distastrous appearance before the committee on Dec. 5 (she only stepped down after mounting plagiarism allegations forced her resignation).

It also tapped a professor accused of antisemitism to head its committee on antisemitis. An now it’s dragged its feet in complying with Congress.

Harvard has made its priorities clear; Jewish students don’t make the list.



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