The Harvard University Out Of Occupied Palestine Coalition has established a Liberated Zone to call for an end to Harvard’s moral and material complicity in the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
Donors to Penn and Harvard angered by pro-Palestinian activity on campus catalyzed pressure to take down the schools’ presidents. Their message is clear and helps explain Joe Biden’s passivity in the face of Israeli war crimes too.
Claudine Gay stepped down at Harvard after being targeted by an anti-DEI, pro-Israel campaign. Palestinian American Tariq Habash quit the Dept of Education over the Biden administration’s support for “ethnic cleansing by the Israeli government.”
Anti-Black racism and Zionism are two cornerstones of Harvard’s flawed foundation. We should mourn Claudine Gay’s tenure at Harvard because she was both a victim and an agent of white supremacy.
Harvard’s current suppression of Palestinian rights advocacy is a decades-long tradition. Instead of learning from past mistakes, Harvard is once again punishing students advocating for human rights.
Rank-and-file members of the Harvard Graduate Student Union are appalled by union leadership’s refusal to honor members’ majority vote to condemn the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
The recent high-profile cases of Kenneth Roth and Jim Cavallaro were just the latest anti-Palestinian actions taken against students and scholars who challenge Israeli settler-colonialism.
Do you want to look back at your college years and reminisce about how you spent Spring Break in an apartheid state? If so, Israel Trek is the trip for you.
Harvard reversed its Ken Roth decisions, but the academic careers of Israel critics are still being consistently threatened. The latest case is Dr. Lara Sheehi at George Washington University.
The broad effort to silence Palestinians and to protect Israel from criticism has been underway for some time. American values are on the line, and American institutions are the battlefield. Yet, the fight over Ken Roth at Harvard shows that these efforts to suppress free speech will only enhance the cause of Palestinian human rights.