A brand new GOP-led antisemitism report revealed Harvard College refused to name Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault on Israel “violent,” and Northwestern College thought of taking Sabra hummus off campus.
The 365-page report summarized a yearlong investigation by the Home Training and Workforce Committee, collected from greater than 400,000 paperwork from 11 colleges throughout the nation into how they responded to a wave of pro-Palestinian protests within the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 assaults.
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In keeping with the report, whereas drafting a public assertion to make after Oct. 7, Harvard College senior directors edited out the phrase “violent” to explain the assault after a dean complained it “sounded like assigning blame.”
They mulled whether or not to disavow a declaration put out by some pupil teams that Israel was accountable for the violence, however finally determined to not.
Northwestern College President Michael Schill, who testified earlier than the committee final spring, expressed an openness to eradicating Sabra hummus from campus to appease protesters.
The report stated Schill appointed anti-Israel school to barter with the scholars who camped outdoors in protest of Israel’s offensive in Gaza. One instructed eradicating the favored hummus model.
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Tons of of graduates walked out of the 2024 Graduation in Harvard Yard to name consideration to the plight of Palestinians. (Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe by way of Getty Photographs)
“It’s a very sore spot for Palestinians because it’s an Israeli hummus brand that’s penetrated most college campuses,” he stated in a textual content message.
The provost responded, “I’m all for making a deal. Bargaining in action!”
One other suggestion taken into account, based on the report, was hiring an anti-Zionist rabbi.
Nonetheless, Northwestern denied ever “seriously” contemplating boycotting any Israeli firm.
Schill additionally excluded Jewish members of his President’s Advisory Committee on Stopping Antisemitism and Hate, based on the report.
The report additionally accused a number of colleges of withholding assist from Jewish college students and located it to be intentional relatively than negligent.
“The Committee’s investigation found that in multiple cases, these failures came not from mere ignorance or lack of forethought, but rather from intentional decisions by university leaders not to provide their campuses’ Jewish communities the necessary support needed to ensure they felt safe to live on campus or attend classes,” the report learn.
Claudine Homosexual resigned as president of Harvard College on Tuesday, Jan. 2, within the wake of controversies that sullied the status of America’s oldest and one in every of its most prestigious universities.
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The report additionally found Harvard President Claudine Homosexual, who resigned after testifying on antisemitism earlier than the committee and accusations of plagiarism, requested the college to not label the phrase “from the river to the sea” antisemitic, apprehensive they’d then should self-discipline college students who used it.
At Columbia, the report revealed how directors attempting to deliver an finish to the pro-Gaza encampment thought of making greater concessions than they’d beforehand let on, together with proposals to divest from firms “complicit in violating international law” or that “manufacture certain categories of weapons” and partnering with a Palestinian college “where Hamas is active on campus.”
The report additionally highlighted incidents when universities refused to punish college students, together with Columbia, which allowed some college students to go with out punishment after they took over Hamilton Corridor.
In a Dec. 10 board assembly, 5 days after Homosexual took the new seat earlier than the committee, she sharply criticized Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., the Home Republican convention chair whose sharp line of questioning led partially to Homosexual’s resignation.
Columbia college students manage dueling memorials and rallies on the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas assault.
Homosexual instructed the board it was laborious to have the college’s “moral core” referred to as into query, “esp[ecially] by someone who is a purveyor of hate” and “supporter of Proudboys.”
The GOP-led report concluded the colleges doubtless violated Title VI and demanded universities implement extra accountability.
“Our investigation has shown that these ‘leaders’ bear the responsibility for the chaos likely violating Title VI and threatening public safety. It is time for the executive branch to enforce the laws and ensure colleges and universities restore order and guarantee that all students have a safe learning environment,” stated Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C.
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Northwestern, in a press release, objected to “unfair characterizations of our Provost and valued members of our faculty based on isolated and out-of-context communications” within the report.
“The Republican Staff Report remains focused on events that were fully debated in the committee hearing last spring, and it ignores the hard work our community has put in since then to improve our policies and procedures.”
