The committee tasked with looking into this antisemitic conflagration detailed how over decades what began as a tense, even rancorous zone of disagreement on campus — specifically, over Israel’s efforts to defend itself from terrorist aggression and the national aims of various Palestinian political factions — changed into an “attempt by student activists to drive Israeli students (and Jewish students who feel connected to Israel) out of student life.” This process was in train well before Oct. 7, and results (to use the words of a faculty member the report cautiously cites) from a “general shift of power from regular faculty and to para-academic administrators” that “has played an outsized role in the politicization and radicalization of academia and its intellectual and reputational decline.” In short, Harvard has suffered “an ideological effort underway to weaken the post-World War II social consensus that antisemitism is a form of bias” along with “politicized instruction that mainstreams and normalizes” Jew- and Israel-hate (though the school couches this in a dodge: i.e., “what many Jewish and Israeli students experience as antisemitism and anti-Israeli bias”).
Author: Post Editorial Board
Published at: 2025-04-30 22:20:56
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