This editor has already written two posts about universities Wednesday: We learned that pro-Hamas Stanford students DEMAND the school fly them to Palestine (and back) so they can grieve properly. An Asian Studies professor at UC Berkeley is giving extra credit to students who take part in the national walkout for Palestine … it's a field trip.
Harvard has been an absolute embarrassment from the beginning, "In nearly 50 years of Harvard affiliation, I have never been as disillusioned and alienated as I am today," wrote former President Lawrence Summers of the school's refusal to denounce Hamas.
Some 36 student groups at Harvard signed a pro-Hamas statement, but some of them got cold feet when they learned that employers aren't anxious to hire people who cheer in the streets for baby killers.
The Harvard Crimson writes that the university has created a "task force" to help those students "doxxed" for signing the statement.
Harvard just announced the creation of an official "task force" -- not to help Jewish students facing calls for genocide from their fellow students, but to help the students *calling for genocide.* Harvard is beyond sick.https://t.co/s3l6VlMyc6 pic.twitter.com/SOLH69NnUr
— Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) October 25, 2023
Michelle N. Amponsah writes:
Harvard will establish a task force to support students experiencing doxxing, harassment, and online security issues following backlash against students allegedly affiliated with a statement that held Israel “entirely responsible” for violence in the Israel-Hamas conflict.
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The formation of the task force comes more than two weeks after more than 30 student organizations drew national backlash for signing onto the controversial statement, which was penned by the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee.
“Today’s events did not occur in a vacuum,” the PSC’s statement reads. “For the last two decades, millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to live in an open-air prison. Israeli officials promise to ‘open the gates of hell,’ and the massacres in Gaza have already commenced.”
In the weeks that followed, students have faced doxxing attacks on websites, social media, and a billboard truck displaying group members’ names and faces and describing them as “Harvard’s Leading Antisemites.”
Even as the PSC moved to state that the group “staunchly opposes” violence against all civilians, at least 10 student groups have since withdrawn their endorsements from the statement.
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It's funny how many student groups have "unsigned" the statement.
This school is not salvageable. Don’t send your kid there, don’t hire from there, don’t donate there.
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) October 25, 2023
Did you also hear they are planning on giving cash to students impacted (read students who FAFO) to help them when they get fired from their jobs? I'm pretty sure this is violating some laws on terrorism financing. Audit Harvard's finances and make sure they aren't funding Hamas.
— LukeYoungblood.eth 🛡️ (@LukeYoungblood) October 25, 2023
It's called the FAFO Support Task Force.
— Strxwmxn 🇮🇱 (@strxwmxn) October 25, 2023
Also, if you sign a political statement of your own free will, you want it to be distributed and you want your name attached. That's the point of signing a petition.
— AmishDude (@TheAmishDude) October 25, 2023
Calling for the elimination of the Jews in Israel apparently doesn't qualify as a microaggression.
— Interesting Times (@FreeTheBee22) October 25, 2023
Commies love task forces.
— PennyStocks (@P3nnySt0cks) October 25, 2023
Harvard University wants to protect the #Hamas Students on Campus that they got paid to have via Qatar.
— Shaina E. B-A (@Perry_Osteum) October 25, 2023
I thought I’ve seen some disgusting displays these past two weeks, but @Harvard had really outdone them all. Absolutely shocking (even with our new equilibrium for shocking).
— Lindsay (@LindsayESQ) October 25, 2023
Harvard is no longer the crown jewel of elite universities. It is now just an overpriced cesspool of misinformation, propaganda and hate. Disgraceful.
— KyProud (@2Timothy17Amen) October 25, 2023
Just chuck Harvard resumes into the trash. Even David Hogg has a degree from there.
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