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Harvard's Antisemitism Begins in the Classroom
(Wall Street Journal) Dara Horn - Last fall I served on Harvard's Antisemitism Advisory Group. It went so badly that I wound up as a witness in Congress's investigation of Harvard. No one in the advisory group argued against free speech. Students can chant "globalize the intifada" all they want. But why is Harvard full of screaming racists? The Harvard course catalogue and events calendar frequently feature "Palestine" and "decolonization." But students need to dig deep to find a course or lecture mentioning that Hamas and Hizbullah are proxies of Iran, or that Israel has been fighting a multifront war against Iran for decades. Academia doesn't seem to attract many courageous people. The tenure process encourages conformity, and students also perform to conform. When Harvard and its academic departments are invested in the bogus story in which the villains are Jews and the heroes are federally-designated terrorist organizations, there's no incentive for anyone to disagree.