We are the Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance, and we call on
@Columbia
to immediately drop their witch hunt against professor
@ShaiDavidai
Join Prof. Davidai to stand up for Jewish students – and academic integrity. By targeting his work, you are sabotaging your own mission
My name is Eden Yadegar, I’m a student at
@Columbia
University, and I call on my administration to immediately drop their witch hunt against professor
@ShaiDavidai
.
Prof. Davidai has done more to stand up for Jewish students on campus than our entire administration combined.
Harvard graduation speaker and Nobel laureate Maria Ressa says she was “called antisemitic by power and money because they want power and money”
Now before we jump to conclusions, let’s acknowledge she has received vile hate based on false allegations. We as Jews relate
BREAKING: Harvard alumni group releases its own report today on how Harvard as an institution —
its curricula and faculty —
systemically planted and spread the seeds of hatred for Israel and Jews well before October 7th, 2023
Download the full report:
An antisemitism check:
1. Which people are after money and power?
2. How is this greed related to fighting antisemitism?
If no such precision exists, find another metaphor
Otherwise, the speech implies that antisemitism is a fake complaint made in the quest for money & power
But Harvard should have had someone vet these words before they’re uttered in the heated climate of 2024
Harvard should have higher standards for its own graduation ceremony
Where’s the academic rigor?
Where’s this context we heard so much about?
A common antisemitic trope is that Jews are only after money and power, whether we’re talking about actual Jews or people/orgs aligned with Jews
Attribute this type of greed to shadowy figures calling out antisemitism, and you run into problems
Read this all the way through. New texts from
@Columbia
deans have been leaked, and they are really bad. During a panel in which Jewish students and faculty discussed the Kraft Center (our Hillel) as a place of refuge from antisemitic discrimination…
Vice Dean and Chief
"The bigotry infecting campuses will spread until college presidents directly address its causes and their own role in fostering them. If not now—as students cheer the intentional slaughter of civilians—when?"
BOMBSHELL: Yale underreported at least $15 million of Qatari money received from 2012 to 2023
Yale University reported receiving only $284,668 from Qatar, while the actual amount is estimated to be at least $15,925,711
Receipts 👇
💰💰💰
ISGAP Report Exposes Yale's Persistent Failure to Disclose Millions in Qatari Funding, in Contradiction to Federal Law
New research reveals Yale University reported receiving only $284,668 from Qatar from 2012 to 2023, while the actual amount is estimated to be approximately $15
1,000 people walk out of Harvard commencement “for Palestine”
Lyrics from their reel:
You will die of terror from the ground, we will emerge like a jinn, squirt
I am like a nuclear weapon, a deadly weapon
In Gaza, men dig tunnels
She returns with a sack full of body parts
What does it look like to stand up for integrity?
Thank you,
@JohnFetterman
!
If you need to recover from seeing faculty wearing regalia at the encampment, watch this short clip:
To a standing ovation, Senator John Fetterman removed his Harvard Crimson hood during commencement today in outrage over the rampant antisemitism here on campus. This is what true leadership looks like!
🎥
@safier
Let’s set the record straight
@briebriejoy
is not uneducated. She’s a Harvard grad
And that’s the problem. Harvard teaches students to ignore fact and to subvert logic
Harvard teaches students to hate
Same old vile ideas, spun & laundered in the ivory tower
I’ve been called a lot of things. “Uneducated” isn’t one of them.
Anyway, the UN says Israel killed its own people & Zionists are going on racist, sexist meltdowns instead of reckoning with the truth about Israel.
Birzeit University which partners w/
@RutgersU
:
-Barred Jewish students from attending as of 2014.
-Has buildings named after convicted terrorists.
-Hamas won a majority of its student gov.
@RepSmucker
: "Is this really an institution Rutgers should be partnering with?"
I told you Claudine Gay wouldn’t be fired and the faculty were spineless. What hurts is the “unanimity” of the alumni association
@HarvardAlumni
. It’s a lie. The
@HarvardJews
alumni disagree. Non-Jewish classmates have told me they disagree. Not one dissenting voice? Disgraceful.
“There are entire Harvard courses and programs and events that are premised on antisemitic lies,”
@DaraHorn
, a writer and Harvard graduate who last year served on an antisemitism advisory board convened by former Harvard president Claudine Gay
Eurovision said it was “too political.”
But tonight, our Queen, Eden Golan, who heroically faced off the haters of Europe, performed ‘October Rain’, the song that should’ve won Eurovision, for the first time in public, at the Tel Aviv Hostages Square rally.
“If Penn will not uphold federal law, then I’m going to make sure a court does.”
Hear me thoughts on the lawsuit myself and other students filed against
@penn
.
So proud of
@ShabbosK
and everyone who stood up for Jews and for liberal values! This is courage. This is encouraging.
Mazal tov on finishing the school year 🙌
HAPPENING NOW: On the last night of the semester, we decided to read the names of the 1,300 Oct 7th victims in front of the pro-Hamas Harvard encampment. We are praying for our hostages and soldiers. We are also praying for our universities to find their moral courage once again
Harvard commencement was a dystopian, radicalizing event even when not evoking antisemitism
“We’re standing on the rubble of the world that was”
“Our world on fire needs you. So, Class of 2024, welcome to the battlefield”
– Nobel laureate Maria Ressa
Journalist Maria Ressa warned graduates of fascism due to Big Tech in her Commencement address Thursday, asking them to “choose their best self” in response.
@HaidarEmma
&
@cam_kettles
report.
We are so honored and moved by your message,
@Isaac_Herzog
.
We believe that Harvard must do better. We believe that it is only together that we can build a more inclusive and freer world.
Thank you for meeting with our delegation!
I met yesterday evening, with a distinguished delegation of
@HarvardJews
, Jewish alumni of
@Harvard
University - perhaps the jewel in the crown of the American Ivy League.
Today Harvard, and all America’s academic institutions face a historic challenge. The horrific rise in
Today, we joined New Yorkers, families of the hostages, & survivors of the 10/7 massacre
@CelebrateIsrael
to stand up in support of beleaguered
#Zionist
students on campus!
The ❤️💝❤️
@FAAM_network
@TheAENetwork
was shown today was incredible 🥰
TY
@JCRCNY
for organizing us! 🧵
Antisemitism at Harvard graduation: UPDATE
Earlier draft of Maria Ressa’s speech included a message of tolerance:
“For the protestors: when you hid your face in a keffiyeh, did you place yourself in the shoes of another student wearing a yarmulke just wanting to walk to class?”
A common antisemitic trope is that Jews are only after money and power, whether we’re talking about actual Jews or people/orgs aligned with Jews
Attribute this type of greed to shadowy figures calling out antisemitism, and you run into problems
Harvard student testimony:
"People think I am a monster. I have heard people say, 'Zionists should be slain.'"
"I am scared to be a Jew here right now."
"Israelis are the only people where their nationality is held against them."
full report:
Big win: Harvard announces it will cease taking official positions on public policy issues
It’s one of the objectives we laid out as the Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance
BREAKING: Harvard announced on Tuesday that the University and its leadership will refrain from taking official positions on controversial public policy issues.
@HaidarEmma
and
@cam_kettles
report.
Alarming “us versus them” mentality from a Harvard dean, no less
That it’s the Dean of Social Science adds a particularly dystopian angle
The faction that cries McCarthyism whenever alums demand sunlight and rule abiding also wants to punish profs for speech
Harvard’s Dean of Social Science, Lawrence Bobo—who was appointed to that role by former Harvard president Claudine Gay—argues that tenured professors should be punished for speech that might “incite external actors,” including “the media,” to “intervene in Harvards’ affairs.”
Please help us by expressing your outrage:
1Withhold donations to Harvard
2Inform your non-Jewish alumni friends of Harvard’s fecklessness
3Support institutions that protect liberal values
4Tell your Senators & Representative where you stand on antisemitism in education
There is absolutely no accountability at
@Harvard
.
If I have anything to do with it, I'll make sure that the history books will remember the callous
@Harvard
administration AND all the donors who kept it afloat.
Every decent American - Jews and non-Jews - should pull their
The leadership of Harvard-Epworth Church, the venue that held the pro-Palestine “People’s Commencement”, said they were angered and dismayed that the church became the site of a large-scale protest.
@e1ysegoncalves
and
@matanjosephy
report.
How to land a clerkship at
@pdsdc
?
✅
@harvard_law
✅ Physically assault a Jew at an anti-Israel rally
✅ Get filmed on the ground & in the air assaulting this Jew
✅ Face up to 200 days in jail for the assault
Shouldn’t the public defender’s service have higher standards?
INSANITY: Ibrahim Bharmal is a Harvard Law School student charged with two misdemeanors for assault and battery, violating the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act, and faces up to 100 days in jail after physically assaulting another Jewish student at Harvard.
The Soil Beneath the Encampment: How Israel and Jews Became the Focus of Hate at Harvard
Round of applause to
@jessicalevin6
@ZoeBernstein1
who made this remarkable report happen!
Anti-Semitic posts on Harvard's Sidechat per the report: "Gas the Jews" and "All of you Zionists are...killers and rapists of children!"
A faculty member is quoted: "the last place you will have a free, interesting discussion is a Harvard classroom."
Jewish & Israeli students face harassment not only from peers but also from Harvard faculty and teaching staff
Harvard classrooms & events replay a virulently one-sided script "Israel, the only Jewish state, along with its supporters, [as embodying] the world's worst evils."
The Harvard Political Review conducted a softball interview with the student leaders of the encampment. In it, they manage to both accuse Jews of racism and argue that Zionism is inherently antisemitic. I give up 🤦♂️
Harvard faculty’s imperious power grab undermines Harvard’s institutional integrity
The same faculty who support the systemic demonization of Jews at Harvard now demands to override the disciplinary ad board, even though the conduct in question is well outside the classroom
The Harvard faculty's vote to overturn discipline for students involved in the virulently anti-Israel/anti-Semitic conduct shows they cannot be impartial arbiters. The Corporation must uphold discipline, or Harvard's integrity will be severely damaged
Are Harvard students are getting suspended for no reason?
This article skips over the shameful, antisemitic harassment caused by the encampment project, or the rules broken by the students - the reasons for the discipline
Harvard students largely do not understand antisemitism
BREAKING: The Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences placed 10 graduate students on probation for participating in the pro-Palestine encampment earlier this year.
@mnamponsah
and
@joycekim324
report.
Thought experiment:
What if there’s no genocide, either
What if blindness to the problems prevents you from solving them
Unless we’re talking about the Jewish problem, in which case, yes, the genocide libel does help demonize us
But what if it’s true?
What if this is literally the conclusion of the latest UN report on the question, which states explicitly that previous claims of famine were based on incorrect assumptions that didn’t pan out?
What then? When does atrocity invention become the
Social media posts from Harvard faculty and staff call Jews “the most powerful people on the planet”
accuse Harvard administrators of “kissing the feet of Zionist power,”
and more
You need to read this from
@IraStoll
WATCH: Eyal Yakoby, an undergraduate student at University of Pennsylvania, talks about the harassment that Jewish students face on college campuses ⬇️
Harvard Yard closed until Friday to preempt the chaos seen at Columbia and Yale over the weekend
We welcome the enforcement of Harvard’s own code of conduct
Harvard still needs to address any systemic antisemitism
Majority of then-President Gay’s antisemitism advisory group threatened to resign, and their recommendations were ignored
Harvard is still claiming antisemitism has no place on campus while denying it needs to be addressed
Kinda like “those Jews deserve it” I mean Zionists
🚨BREAKING: Yesterday protestors marched on a Synagogue in LA claiming that the Temple was selling land in the West Bank that belonged to Palestinians based on an ad they found in the Jewish Journal.
That ad lists property for sale ONLY in Israel proper. Places like Yehuda, Tel
Antisemitism engulfs Harvard, then come lawsuits, committees, administration shakeups, congressional hearings, an encampment, criminal charges – and why?
It’s Harvard’s own fault.
If you care about consequences for those charged with assaulting Jews bc they’re Jews, take a deep breath
Columbia student was accused of hitting an Israeli student w a stick
Manhattan DA dismissed charges
Dismissal can be a reference point 2 others convicted of similar crimes
The Manhattan DA is dismissing charges against a Columbia student who was accused of tearing down Israeli hostage posters and hitting an Israeli student with a stick.
The student “accepted a deal that would drop the initial second and third-degree assault charges—both of which
We have just filed a lawsuit against Harvard.
For too long, Harvard has allowed, and in many cases, promoted, antisemitism on campus.
This lawsuit gives a voice for all those who have been on the receiving end of hatred, bigotry, and discrimination
EXCELLENT dissent from
@JacobMeirMiller
🙌🙌🙌
“For three weeks, students sat in the middle of Harvard Yard declaring themselves part of the “student intifada” — or successors to two waves of terrorism that collectively killed hundreds of Israeli civilians”
Dissent in
@CrimsonOpinion
: There is No Palestine Exception
It's a choice to view Harvard's actions as a Palestine exception to free speech — a choice that buries the antisemitism that has plagued the pro-Palestinian movement.
@JacobMeirMiller
writes.
If only this were the Ivy League presidents saying in a joint statement “We express our full solidarity with Jewish students and reaffirm our unwavering commitment to an academic environment free from harassment and discrimination.”
Harvard's abject failure to address rampant antisemitism on campus is a dereliction of duty and an utter disgrace. A damning new report exposes the university's cowardice
Breaking: Harvard was slow to react to hostilities against Jewish students last fall and ignored calls to address rising antisemitism, a Congressional report finds
It’s our hope that Harvard’s next President begins their term by loudly and clearly stating that antisemitism has absolutely no place on campus, that strong action will follow to make that commitment a reality, and
@boston25
Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine Coalition, an unrecognized pro-Palestine student group, accused The Crimson of anti-Palestinian bias in its coverage and said it would boycott the paper until May 6 in a Friday letter.
Emma Haidar and Cam Kettles report.
Harvard used to stand for academic rigor and conscientious ethics
Now? Vibes
If protesters are gleeful, they get a pass when calling for the destruction of liberal values
They’re laundering blood libel, but their hearts are in the right place
Sorry, ice cream is not kale
Welcome to the new Harvard, where my classmates have normalized gleeful chants for the violent destruction of the United States of America and the Jewish homeland. For the third day in a row, Harvard has not condemned this.
An open letter signed by
@UCIrvine
students, faculty and community members is criticizing the UCI History Department's decision to not renew OC Hillel Rabbi Daniel Levine's contract to teach the Jewish Texts course. The letter accuses the department of replacing Levine with two
“It’s indoctrination, not education. The last place you will have a free, interesting discussion is a Harvard classroom." - Prof Shai Davidai
An incredible audit of the pre- and post- October 7 anti-Jewish environment at
@Harvard
by the Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance
We are writing with good news!
First, we are proud to announce that HJAA has been officially recognized by
@HarvardAlumni
/the University as a Special Interest Group. For the 1st time, Jewish alumni have an official voice at the University.
“Professors should not be carrying their ideologies into the classroom. Our job as teachers of ‘citizens and citizen-leaders’ is not to indoctrinate students, but to prepare them to grapple with all of the ideas they will encounter in the societies they will serve.”
Ivy League schools indoctrinate hate and teach how to lie
If you can’t make it as an actual scholar,
If you can’t hack it as a policy maker/service member actually improving the lives of Palestinians,
Come indoctrinate kids to hate! Blindly!
Wonder why there is so much anti-Israel rhetoric on college campuses?
Well, here is an
@penn
course image where a map is shown erasing Israel and replacing it with Palestine.
“Money and power” was clearly referencing social media in this earlier draft
At graduation:
“Because I accepted your invitation to be here today, I was attacked online and called antisemitic by power & money, because they want power and money”
“As the students banged drums and chanted, the rest of campus life continued almost undisturbed in the Yard”
Other than the banging, the chanting, the Palestinian flag replacing the American flag again, a barrier of tents and chairs blocking the Yard, ID refusal it’s all normal!
Students staging a pro-Palestine encampment in Harvard Yard refused to submit to ID checks on Tuesday as tension mounted between protesters and administrators on day 14 of the occupation.
@MacHealey
,
@Jo_Lemann
, and
@azusalippit
report.
To this day, Harvard hasn't made public data on antisemitic incidents nor taken concrete disciplinary actions. Just hollow lip service as Jewish students' safety is endangered
Please join us in our mission to counter the degradation of academic standards and ensure a single set of conduct standards applies to all students.
We are here if you want or need to talk. Anonymous because that’s what it has come to. Reach out at audit
@harvardjewishalumni
.org
Tel Aviv life guard updates the swimmers of the release. Israelis in Athens sing the anthem when the news reach them. We cherish life, Palestinians can cherish death as much as they want...
Students began a petition demanding Harvard drop all chargers against the anti-Israel encampment protestors. To demonstrate how little these Harvard students know about the conflict, please take a look at
#12
😂
What are they teaching students?
What are they representing as instructors in a leading university?
Same as all antisemites in history: they’re scapegoating the Jews as a flex and as a practice run
They’re after more power
They’ll corrupt any principle to get it
Harvard University Dining Services is in the process of ensuring that the majority of the chicken served in their dining halls is halal, according to a statement from a HUDS spokesperson.
Isabella G. Schauble reports.
Our own Clarence Schwab, “The school would not, and should not, tolerate menacing conduct aimed at Blacks or Latinos or the LGBTQ community. We want one standard applied equally to all.”
So the encampment
@penn
was disbanded today and weapons were found in the encampment. Yet, the protestors have the audacity to add additional demands.
1. $30-$50 million sent to Gaza
2. No study abroad to Israel
3. Define genocide
A Harvard employee, acting against Harvard policy, tears down hostage posters
With the tension on campus, the lawsuits, the congressional investigation – how easy would it have been for Harvard to give a quick policy refresh to its employees?
Just apply your own rules equally
Harvard employees caught in the act of tearing hostage posters.
On the request of our Israeli students to raise awareness of the suffering of their loved ones being held hostage in Gaza, Harvard Chabad has been sponsoring posters of their loved ones. Against university policy
Harvard needs to exit the cycle of political grievance, in which extremists on both sides push each other further apart and further away from the truth
The House committee report on Harvard and antisemitism is clearly a political document, and I am sure is not fully balanced. Nonetheless, the evidence directly from members of Harvard’s anti-semitism advisory group is very troubling. It confirms the suspicions of many of that the
Jewish students were spat on, harassed, and threatened with violence - with calls to "gas" them receiving support on Harvard's own platforms
Yet the administration turned a blind eye and failed to act
“It’s Harvard ppl themselves who are damning Harvard w this report,” Foxx said. “That isn’t coming from us.”
“It’s the antisemitism advisory group that found all these things that were going on at Harvard, they gave the report to the administration, & then the admin did nothing”
Opening the “peaceful” People’s Conference for Palestine:
- speaker explains this revolution is built upon the sacrifices of thousands of "martyrs" and fighters
- reads a poem about Ghassan Kanafani by Communist poet Jester, davel
Shoufani discusses how this revolution is built upon the sacrifices of thousands of "martyrs" and fighters. She then reads a poem about Ghassan Kanafani by Communist poet Jester, davel.
She then welcomes everyone to the conference.
"Welcome to the conference and welcome to the
In the context of the national discourse, Stanford unequivocally condemns calls for the genocide of Jews or any peoples. That statement would clearly violate Stanford’s Fundamental Standard, the code of conduct for all students at the university.
“Falastin Arabia” – meaning “an Arab Palestine” – from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea eliminates the state of Israel
Students at the
@Harvard
Science Center calling for the elimination of Israel yesterday at a walk out
“History is watching you”
Yes, history is watching Harvard enforce its own code of conduct
History will tell whether Harvard can find its way back to Veritas
None of the accusations in the article are supported by fact
“Jews, [students] insisted, are more than adequately represented among the elite, and belong to ‘the oppressor class.’”
Antisemitism at Harvard started long before Claudine Gay
It’s hard enough to support a football team your high school teacher doesn’t like
Could you imagine trying to measure up to a professor who supports students breaking the law for the prof’s cause?
You better bring a mug shot to office hours or forget about that letter of rec
More blood libel from Harvard student groups
Don’t they have a faculty advisor? Faculty at their residence house?
Is this another example of Harvard faculty quietly supporting vile antisemitic tropes?
They’re not even advanced antisemitic tropes. Ivy League dialing it in
Insanity continues: The Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee, along with five other student groups, affirm that Palestinian terrorism is a “labor of love…against the Zionist entity.” I don’t think people realize how normalized the promotion of terrorism is at Harvard
As we mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, we connect to the loss of 6 million Jewish lives, the deaths of all, & the anguish of persecution. We commit to combatting antisemitism & reaffirming civil rights at Harvard
#InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay
1/3 Resigning, a Hanukkah Message: As of today I have resigned from the antisemitism advisory committee at Harvard. Without rehashing all of the obvious reasons that have been endlessly adumbrated online, and with great respect for the members of the committee, the short