{"id":2103133,"date":"2023-11-19T10:23:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T15:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/over-100-harvard-faculty-defend-palestinian-slogan-condemned-by-university-president-as-anti-semitic\/"},"modified":"2023-11-19T10:28:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T15:28:59","slug":"over-100-harvard-faculty-defend-palestinian-slogan-condemned-by-university-president-as-anti-semitic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/over-100-harvard-faculty-defend-palestinian-slogan-condemned-by-university-president-as-anti-semitic\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 100 Harvard Faculty Defend Palestinian Slogan Condemned by University President as Anti-Semitic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fover-100-harvard-faculty-defend-palestinian-slogan-condemned-by-university-president-as-anti-semitic%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=2103133&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>A Slogan Embraced by Harvard Faculty Sparks Controversy<\/h2>\n<p>A slogan that has come to embody the dreams of Hamas supporters \u200cthat Israel will be\u200d wiped away is just fine with more than 100 members of Harvard University\u2019s faculty.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard has been front and center in the \u200cdebate over rampant anti-Semitism on college campuses. Israel was barely regaining control of \u200bcommunities\u200b where the high tide \u200bof October\u2019s Hamas \u2063slaughter crested when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/harvard-students-blamed-israel-slaughter-people-get-bad-news-strange-truck-arrives-campus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvard student groups<\/a> were proclaiming \u201cthe Israeli \u200dregime entirely responsible for all \u2063unfolding \u200dviolence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/anti-israel-ivy-league-students-get-brutal-news-universitys-jewish-billionaire-donor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">donors<\/a> distanced themselves and the college came under attack, President Claudine Gay tried \u200cto reverse\u200b course.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI affirm our \u2062commitment to protecting all members of our community from harassment and marginalization, and our commitment\u2062 to meeting\u200c antisemitism head-on, with the determination it demands,\u201d<\/strong> Gay wrote in an email\u2063 to students, according to\u200d the\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2023\/11\/10\/gay-antisemitism-education-email\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvard \u2062Crimson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cOur community must understand that phrases \u200dsuch as \u2018from the \u200driver \u2064to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/over-100-harvard-faculty-defend-palestinian-slogan-condemned-by-university-president-as-anti-semitic\/\" title=\"Over 100 Harvard Faculty Defend Palestinian Slogan Condemned by University President as Anti-Semitic\">sea\u2019 bear specific historical meanings<\/a> \u200bthat \u2062to a great many people imply the eradication of Jews from Israel and \u2062engender both pain and existential fears within our Jewish community,\u201d<\/strong> Gay wrote. <strong>\u201cI \u2063condemn this phrase and any similarly hurtful \u200dphrases.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAntisemitism has no place at Harvard,\u201d<\/strong> Gay continued.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/harvard-students-anti-israel-open-letter-backfires-horribly-employer-responds-email\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">struck\u200c a\u200b nerve<\/a>, as \u200bnoted by \u200bthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2023\/11\/15\/faculty-condemn-president-gay-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crimson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The more than 100 learned professors pushing back said the phrase had \u201ca\u2063 long and complicated history and that Gay\u2019s words \u2064\u201cnecessarily implying \u2063removalism or\u200c even eliminationism,\u201d were \u201cimprudent as a matter of university policy and badly misjudged as an act of moral leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The faculty were \u201cprofoundly dismayed,\u201d\u200c their letter said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">More than 100 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Harvard?\">@Harvard<\/a> faculty members signed a letter \u200cdefending the genocidal chant \u2018From the river to the sea\u2019 saying it has a \u201clong and \u2062complicated history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Academic freedom at Harvard apparently means freedom to openly \u2064hate Jews.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1zkfunFQYQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/1zkfunFQYQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aviva \u200cKlompas (@AvivaKlompas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AvivaKlompas\/status\/1725493408414806261?\">November 17, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The letter also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-president-trump-met-with-sidney-powell-and-general-flynn-in-oval-office-discussed-deploying-military-naming-powell-as-special-counsel-on-election-fraud\/\" title=\"REPORT: President Trump Met with Sidney Powell and General Flynn in Oval Office \u2013 Discussed Deploying Military, Naming Powell as Special Counsel on Election Fraud\">pushed back<\/a> against\u2062 Harvard Chabad President Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi who attached the student-led Palestinian Solidarity\u200b Committee\u2062 as \u201csupporting terrorism\u201d \u2063and\u200b called for it to be shut down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a moment when an \u2063affiliate of the University has \u2062with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-than-100-faculty-sign-letter-blasting-harvard-president-for-condemning-antisemitism\/\" title=\"More than 100 faculty sign letter blasting Harvard president for condemning antisemitism\">apparent impunity stood<\/a> in the yard and accused students of supporting \u200cterrorism, your delineation of the limits of acceptable expression on \u2064our campus is dangerously one-sided,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bletter also demanded \u200dGay act to support \u201cintellectual freedom\u201d at Harvard and create \u201can advisory group\u2062 on Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab\u200b racism,\u201d according to the \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/over-100-harvard-faculty-defend-from-the-river-to-the-sea-chant.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Writing on his <a href=\"https:\/\/larrysummers.com\/2023\/11\/13\/reflections-on-antisemitism-and-the-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>, former Harvard\u200b President and Treasury Secretary\u200b Lawrence Summers said the track \u200drecord of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/borat-star-blasts-tiktok-executives-creating-nazi-like-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/things-that-donald-trump-did-not-do\/\" title=\"Things That Donald Trump Did Not Do\">anti-semitism<\/a>\/&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; rel=&#8221;noopener&#8221;>America\u2019s universities<\/a> \u2062is\u2064 \u201cshameful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[N]o honest observer looking at the record of the last few years and especially at the\u2064 last month \u200ccan suppose that universities\u2019 responses including Harvard to antisemitism have paralleled in vigor \u2064or volume the responses to racism \u2064or \u200dother forms of prejudice,\u201d he\u200b wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor example, with\u200c few exceptions, those most directly charged with confronting prejudice \u2014 Offices of \u2064Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion \u2014 have \u2062failed to stand \u200dwith Israeli and Jewish students confronting the\u2062 oldest prejudice of them all,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Summers wrote that \u201csingling out Israel with \u200dwidely understood calls\u2063 for its annihilation is Jew hatred of an unacceptable sort\u201d noting that universities must recognize \u201cthat there is \u200bevil in the world \u200cand considering with the greatest of care and seriousness how to respond.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"author_subscription_pitch\">.author_subscription_pitch\u200b 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Brown<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Founder of The Western Journal<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u200c post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/100-harvard-faculty-defend-palestinian-slogan-condemned-university-president-anti-semitic\/\">Over 100 Harvard Faculty Defend Palestinian Slogan Condemned by University President\u2063 as Anti-Semitic<\/a> \u200b appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How do the over 100 Harvard faculty members argue \u2063that\u200d President Gay&#8217;s condemnation of the slogan implies removalism or eliminationism?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  A Slogan Embraced by Harvard Faculty Sparks Controversy<\/p>\n<p>The use of a slogan\u2063 that symbolizes the hope for the\u200c eradication of Israel, and thus\u2063 the Jewish people, by Hamas supporters has caused a stir among Harvard University&#8217;s faculty. This slogan,\u200c which has \u200bbecome \u2063associated with\u200b the violence perpetuated\u2062 by Hamas in October, has ignited a debate over anti-Semitism on college campuses.<\/p>\n<p>When Harvard student groups declared that the Israeli regime was solely responsible for the violence that unfolded, the university faced severe backlash, including donors distancing \u2062themselves\u200b from the institution. In response, President Claudine Gay \u2062attempted to address the issue by affirming the university&#8217;s \u2062commitment to protecting\u2064 all \u200dmembers of the community from harassment and marginalization, particularly in relation to anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>Gay wrote in an email to students, &#8220;Our community must \u2063understand that phrases such as &#8216;from\u2062 the river\u2063 to the sea&#8217; bear specific historical meanings that,\u2063 to a great many people, imply the eradication of Jews from \u200cIsrael\u200b and engender both pain and existential fears within our \u200cJewish community. I condemn this phrase and any similarly hurtful phrases.&#8221; Gay unequivocally stated that anti-Semitism has \u2063no place\u200c at Harvard.<\/p>\n<p>However, this statement only further <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-mother-receives-more-than-150k-for-home-after-leaving-kids-in-motel-room-to-go-to-work\/\" title=\"Ohio mother receives more than 0K for home after leaving kids in motel room to go to work\">ignited controversy<\/a>. Over 100 Harvard \u200dfaculty\u2064 members \u2062signed\u2064 a letter in response, claiming that the phrase has\u2063 a long and complicated history. \u2063They argued that Gay&#8217;s condemnation of the \u2062slogan implied removalism or even eliminationism, criticizing her words as imprudent and\u2063 misguided acts of moral leadership. The\u200b faculty expressed their profound dismay at the president&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A slogan that has come to embody the dreams of Hamas supporters that Israel will be wiped away is just fine with more than 100 members of Harvard University\u2019s faculty. Harvard has been front and center in the debate over rampant anti-Semitism on college campuses. 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