Harvard is nonetheless failing its Jewish college students.
The Home Training and the Workforce Committee was pressured to subpoena prime Harvard officers, together with Harvard Company Senior Fellow Penny Pritzker and Interim President Dr. Alan Garber, after the college flouted a Wednesday deadline to show over paperwork on its dealing with of antisemitism on campus.
The committee initially requested the fabric, together with inner communications and assembly minutes referring to antisemitism or the warfare in Israel and Gaza, again on Jan. 9.
The college’s response?
“After an affordable search and assessment up to now, Harvard has not recognized assembly minutes in connection” with the committee’s request.
Committee charwoman Rep. Virginia Foxx identified the outrageousness of this: “It could be stunning if the Board of Overseers and Harvard Administration Firm thought defending Harvard’s Jewish college students was so insignificant that the subject was unfit of debate at a single assembly.”
By late January, the college had turned over a batch of paperwork that included over 1,000 pages of publicly out there info, which Rep. Foxx slammed as “woefully insufficient.”
Harvard was then given a closing warning to totally adjust to the committee’s request and switch over “precedence paperwork.” It blew that off, too.
The college’s nonchalance and stonewalling proves that directors nonetheless refuse to take the scourge of antisemitism on its campus significantly — and there’s loads of proof they by no means did.
Throughout her testimony earlier than the committee, then-President Claudine Homosexual wouldn’t even affirm that calling for the genocide of Jews would violate the college’s code of conduct, and hid behind the college’s supposed assist for “free speech.”
On the similar time, Harvard has made positive to emphasise that utilizing non-preferred pronouns is “abuse” that will represent harassment.
Truth is, the college has proven its indifference to Jew-hatred repeatedly: first by failing to adequately tackle allegations of harassment of Jews on its campus within the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas assault on Israel, then by refusing to fireside Homosexual after her distastrous look earlier than the committee on Dec. 5 (she solely stepped down after mounting plagiarism allegations pressured her resignation).
It additionally tapped a professor accused of antisemitism to go its committee on antisemitis. An now it’s dragged its ft in complying with Congress.
Harvard has made its priorities clear; Jewish college students don’t make the checklist.