More On The Harvard President’s Self-Serving Spin On The Hamas-Israel Conflict.

The editor of Campus Reform, Zachary Marschall, a PhD and an adjunct professor at the University of Kentucky, is far less diplomatic about Claudine Gay’s video statement (here) than I was yesterday (at the same link), but I substantially concur with his points in “ANALYSIS: Harvard president Claudine Gay is a hypocritical fraud.”

Among the details I only generally alluded to or failed to mention that he highlights:

  • In 2022, Harvard ranked  as having the most anti-Semitic incidents of any campus in the country. 
  • Though Gay claimed that Harvard “embraces a commitment to free expression,” in 2018, Harvard investigated a professor after students complained that he was making “verbal or non-verbal” microaggressions in class. Says Marschall, “A cohort of leftist university administrators that believe both speech and silence can be violence devoted more interceding in a nothing-burger incident than Gay has expended in response to student activists clamoring for more dead Jews.”
  • “In 2020, then Harvard University President Lawrence Barcow issued a statement supporting the Marxist political movemnet Black Lives Matter, which just this week is celebrating the Hamas terror attacks.” Gay’s words suggested that Harvard would never do such a thing.   Marschall writes,

The anti-Semitic idea that Jews are benefactors of white supremacy informs Gay’s inability to take a consistent and morally sound stance on her students’ safety. Whatever capacity academics had for compassion and respect for people’s differences died in 2016 when Donald Trump’s candidacy drove the left into a radical combative hysteria. “The 6 justices who overturned Roe should never know peace again. It is our civic duty to accost them every time they are in public,” Harvard Law clinical instructor Alejandra Caraballo stated after the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Harvard scholars only know peace and empathy for their side, and Gay has made it clear that she considers Jews not on their side. 

Do read the whole thing.

2 thoughts on “More On The Harvard President’s Self-Serving Spin On The Hamas-Israel Conflict.

  1. I find it funny how the oppression groups are arguing about who is oppressed more.

    “The anti-Semitic idea that Jews are benefactors of white supremacy informs Gay’s inability to take a consistent and morally sound stance on her students’ safety.”

    This suggests the author would be OK with such treatment being heaped on ‘white’ students, but people externally indistinguishable from ‘white’ students, who have a small percentage of their DNA from people from the Middle East who were Jewish should be immune to such treatment.

  2. Pingback: American Colleges and Universities’ Stance on the Israel-Hamas War: Will Antisemitism, Morals or Money Prevail? – Inside Out Odyssey

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