{"id":2062061,"date":"2023-10-10T13:53:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-profs-unload-on-campus-groups-over-anti-israel-statement\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T13:54:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:54:58","slug":"harvard-profs-unload-on-campus-groups-over-anti-israel-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-profs-unload-on-campus-groups-over-anti-israel-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard professors criticize campus groups for anti-Israel statement."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fharvard-profs-unload-on-campus-groups-over-anti-israel-statement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2062061&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Harvard Professors Condemn Anti-Israel Statement Amidst \u200bHamas \u200dAttacks<\/h2>\n<p>Harvard professors Larry Summers and Jason\u200c Furman expressed their outrage towards several \u200ccampus\u200c groups for releasing an \u2063explicitly\u2062 anti-Israel\u200b statement following devastating attacks by Hamas terrorists on Israel. \u2063The attacks resulted in the kidnapping, torture, and \u2064killing\u2064 of hundreds of Israeli civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The joint statement, which\u2062 targeted Israel \u200dfrom the start, claimed that the Israeli regime\u2064 was entirely responsible\u200c for the unfolding violence. It conveniently\u2062 ignored the unprovoked attacks by Hamas and focused solely on what \u2062they called &#8220;retaliation&#8221; from\u200c Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Summers responded \u200cto the statement with shock and disappointment, stating \u200cthat he had never \u2062felt as disillusioned and alienated from Harvard in his\u200d nearly 50 years of \u2062affiliation. He criticized\u200d the university&#8217;s leadership for\u2062 remaining silent and\u200c allowing student groups \u2063to solely blame Israel for acts of \u200bterror.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In nearly 50 years \u200cof <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Harvard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Harvard<\/a> affiliation, I\u200b have\u2063 never been as disillusioned and alienated \u2064as I am today.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lawrence \u2062H. \u2062Summers (@LHSummers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LHSummers\/status\/1711421307227607255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Summers further criticized Harvard&#8217;s leadership for their silence on the ongoing massacre of Israelis, despite\u2064 voicing support for other causes\u200c such as Ukraine and condemning police violence. \u200dHe called for the university to disassociate itself from the \u2062anti-Israel statement and issue statements condemning the\u2063 terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Instead, Harvard \u200dis being defined by\u2062 the\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/latest-poll-majority-of-americans-want-republican-party-to-control-the-senate-sean-hannity\/\" title=\"LATEST POLL: Majority of Americans Want Republican Party to Control the Senate | Sean Hannity\">harvard<\/a>-profs-unload-on-campus-groups-over-anti-israel-statement\/&#8221; title=&#8221;Harvard professors criticize campus groups for anti-Israel statement.&#8221;>morally unconscionable\u2063 statement apparently coming<\/a> from two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-harvard-president-larry-summers-sickened-by-schools-neutral-stance-on-anti-jewish-terrorism\/\" title=\"Larry Summers, former Harvard President, disgusted by school's neutral stance on anti-Jewish terrorism.\">dozen student groups blaming<\/a> all the violence on Israel. I\u200b am \u200csickened. I cannot fathom the Administration\u2019s failure to disassociate the University and condemn \u200cthis \u200bstatement.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u200b Lawrence H. Summers\u2063 (@LHSummers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LHSummers\/status\/1711421315377177080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jason Furman, another Harvard professor, joined\u200b Summers in condemning\u2062 the anti-Israel statement. He expressed his concern over the global attention it was receiving\u2063 and called \u2064the \u200dsentiments expressed in the statement morally ignorant. Furman hoped that the statement did not represent\u2063 the majority of students and urged for a stronger \u200dcondemnation of\u2063 the attacks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It is\u200c getting global\u200c attention and the \u2064sentiments it\u2064 expresses are egregious. Blaming the victims \u2063for the slaughter of hundreds of civilians.\u2062 Absolving\u200c the perpetrators of any agency. \u2062This is morally ignorant and painful for other\u200d members of the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jason Furman (@jasonfurman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasonfurman\/status\/1711549452287103198?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Furman also shared a comment from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-reasons-making-taxpayers-pay-off-student-loans-is-a-rotten-idea\/\" title=\"5 Reasons Making Taxpayers Pay Off Student Loans Is A Rotten Idea\">graduate student<\/a> who was a member \u200cof the undersigned groups and expressed her anger at having such sentiments \u2062associated with\u2062 her name.\u2063 He criticized the statement issued by University President Claudine Gay, stating that it did\u2064 not go far enough in condemning the attacks.<\/p>\n<p><b>Student Groups\u200b that Signed \u200cthe Joint\u2064 Statement:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>African American Resistance Organization<\/li>\n<li>Amnesty International \u200cat\u2062 Harvard<\/li>\n<li>Bengali Association of Students at Harvard College<\/li>\n<li>Harvard\u200c Act on a Dream<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Arab Medical and Dental Student Association<\/li>\n<li>Harvard \u2062Chan Muslim Student Association<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Chan\u200c Students for Health \u200cEquity and Justice \u2062in \u200dPalestine<\/li>\n<li>Harvard College Pakistan\u2063 Student Association<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Divinity School Muslim Association<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Middle Eastern \u200band North African Law Student \u200dAssociation<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Graduate School of Education\u200c Islamic Society<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Graduate Students \u200bfor Palestine<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Islamic Society<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Law School Justice for\u2062 Palestine<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Divinity School \u200cStudents for Justice in Palestine<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Jews \u2062for Liberation<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Kennedy School Bangladesh Caucus<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Kennedy \u2064School Muslim \u2063Caucus<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Kennedy School Muslim Women\u2019s Caucus<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Kennedy School\u2064 Palestine Caucus<\/li>\n<li>Harvard \u2063Kennedy School South Asia Caucus Leadership<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Muslim Law School Association<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Pakistan Forum<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Prison Divest Coalition<\/li>\n<li>Harvard South Asian Law Students Association<\/li>\n<li>Harvard South Asians for\u2063 Forward-Thinking Advocacy and Research<\/li>\n<li>Harvard TPS Coalition<\/li>\n<li>Harvard \u200cUndergraduate\u2062 Arab Women\u2019s \u200dCollective<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Undergraduate Ghungroo<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Undergraduate Muslim Women\u2019s Medical Alliance<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Undergraduate Nepali Students Association<\/li>\n<li>Harvard Undergraduate \u200cPalestine Solidarity Committee<\/li>\n<li>Middle \u200bEast and \u200dNorth African \u2063Graduate School of Design \u200dStudent Society<\/li>\n<li>Neighbor Program Cambridge<\/li>\n<li>Sikhs and Companions \u200dof \u200bHarvard Undergraduates<\/li>\n<li>Society \u200cof Arab Students<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/body><\/html>  <\/p>\n<h2> What criticism did both professors have \u200cregarding the response \u200dof University President Claudine \u200dGay, and what expectations did they have for the university&#8217;s \u2064leadership<\/h2>\n<p><span>  And disassociating the university\u2064 from the \u200danti-Israel statement.<\/p>\n<p>The joint statement released by\u2063 several campus groups has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blm-riots-dragged-democrats-down-in-2020-data-shows-but-peaceful-protests-helped-them\/\" title=\"BLM Riots Dragged Democrats Down In 2020, Data Shows \u2014 But Peaceful Protests Helped Them\">sparked intense debate<\/a> and condemnation from Harvard professors Larry Summers and Jason Furman. \u2062The statement, which solely blamed\u200b Israel for \u2063the escalating violence and \u2063completely ignored the unprovoked attacks by Hamas, has outraged \u200dthese renowned academics.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Summers\u2062 expressed his profound disappointment and\u2062 disillusionment, stating that in his nearly 50 years of affiliation with Harvard, he had never felt this alienated before. He criticized \u2064the university&#8217;s leadership for remaining silent and allowing student\u200c groups\u200b to solely blame Israel for acts of \u200dterror. Summers called for the university to \u2062disassociate itself from the anti-Israel statement and issue statements condemning the terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Furman joined Summers in condemning the\u200b anti-Israel\u200c statement, expressing concern over the global attention it was \u200dreceiving.\u200b He labeled the \u200bsentiments expressed in the statement as morally ignorant \u2062and hoped that \u200bit did not represent the majority \u200bof students. Furman called for a stronger condemnation of the attacks and expressed his support for \u2063the \u200bgraduate student \u2063who was a member \u2063of \u200bthe \u200dundersigned groups but vehemently disagreed with the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Both \u200bprofessors criticized the response by \u2064University President Claudine Gay, claiming that it did\u200b not go far enough in condemning the attacks and \u2062disassociating the university from the\u2062 anti-Israel sentiment. They voiced their expectation of stronger leadership from the university in \u2063addressing \u200cthis issue and\u200b reaffirming its commitment to unbiased and fair discourse.<\/p>\n<p>The condemnation of \u200cthe \u2062anti-Israel statement by these Harvard professors underscores\u200c the importance of critical thinking and unbiased analysis, especially in highly sensitive and \u200ccomplex geopolitical conflicts. It highlights\u2063 the\u200c need for universities to foster an environment that encourages diverse viewpoints and constructive dialogue while ensuring the condemnation of violence \u2063and terrorism. As academic institutions,\u200d they \u2062have\u2062 a\u200b responsibility to uphold these principles and promote understanding and respect among \u200btheir students and faculty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard professors Larry Summers and Jason Furman criticized campus groups for an anti-Israel statement following Hamas&#8217; recent attacks. 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