{"id":2238631,"date":"2024-05-06T17:54:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T21:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/end-the-occupation-of-harvard-yard-president-threatens-anti-israel-students-squatting-in-encampment\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T17:57:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T21:57:58","slug":"end-the-occupation-of-harvard-yard-president-threatens-anti-israel-students-squatting-in-encampment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/end-the-occupation-of-harvard-yard-president-threatens-anti-israel-students-squatting-in-encampment\/","title":{"rendered":"President Warns Anti-Israel Students Occupying Harvard Yard to End Protest"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fend-the-occupation-of-harvard-yard-president-threatens-anti-israel-students-squatting-in-encampment%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=2238631&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--><p>Harvard University has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-coronavirus-rules-are-stifling-free-speech-on-campus\/\" title=\"Report: Coronavirus Rules Are Stifling Free Speech On Campus\">issued warnings<\/a> to \u2062students in an anti-Israel encampment in Harvard Yard, threatening eviction, \u200cexam bans, and campus suspension \u200bif they don&#8217;t leave. Interim president Alan \u2064Garber sees it as \u200da risk to\u200c the\u2062 educational environment, impacting exams, \u200cactivities, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mtg-blasts-house-republicans-who-voted-to-table-tlaib-censure-motion\/\" title=\"MTG slams GOP for tabling Tlaib censure motion.\">student \u2064life<\/a>. The encampment \u200chas\u200b led to disruptions on campus, affecting studies and \u2063events. Garber urges protesters to end the occupation, emphasizing the importance of \u200dupholding \u2064university policies, especially with upcoming commencements.\u200d Other universities, \u200dlike\u200b Columbia and USC, have canceled events due to similar protests. Disruptions caused\u200b by the encampment risk spoiling graduation \u2062ceremonies for students who have \u200balready faced\u2062 pandemic-related challenges.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harvard University has threatened students squatting in the anti-Israel encampment in Harvard Yard with eviction from their dorms, prevention from taking their exams, and being barred from campus if they do not leave.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After allowing the encampment to thrive for nearly two weeks, Harvard interim president Alan Garber called it a \u201c<\/span>significant risk to the educational environment of the University.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who participate in or perpetuate its continuation will be referred for involuntary leave from their Schools,\u201d Garber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/president\/news\/2024\/encampment-in-harvard-yard\/\">wrote<\/a>. \u201c<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among other implications, students placed on involuntary leave may not be able to sit for exams, may not continue to reside in Harvard housing, and must cease to be present on campus until reinstated.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Garber said the encampment has forced exams, important activities, and events to be moved elsewhere and has affected students\u2019 ability to \u201csleep, study, and move freely about the campus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe encampment favors the voices of a few over the rights of many who have experienced disruption in how they learn and work at a critical time of the semester,\u201d Garber wrote. \u201cI call on those participating in the encampment to end the occupation of Harvard Yard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Garber said that while he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sharon-osborne-slams-costars-cbs-piers-morgan-controversy-was-set-up-osborne-used-as-sacrificial-lamb\/\" title=\"Sharon Osborne Slams Costars, CBS: Piers Morgan Controversy Was \u2018Set Up,\u2019 Osborne Used As \u2018Sacrificial Lamb\u2019\">supports free speech<\/a>, it is not \u201cunlimited\u201d at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-overwhelming-support-for-school-choice-in-n-c\/\" title=\"Poll: Overwhelming support for school choice in N.C.\">private school<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Garber added that there have been reports of some of the protesters harassing other community members. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Harvard staff have requested to see IDs in order to enforce our policies, supporters of the encampment have at times yelled at them, tried to encircle them, and otherwise interfered with their work,\u201d Gaber wrote. \u201cWe have also received reports that passers-by have been confronted, surveilled, and followed. Such actions are indefensible and unacceptable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Garber, the protesters have been \u201cinformed repeatedly\u201d that their actions violate policies and will be \u201csubject to disciplinary consequences,\u201d and some students have been given disciplinary notices. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With commencement approaching, Garber called the ongoing violation of Harvard\u2019s policies by having the encampment \u201cmore consequential.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThousands of family members, friends, and loved ones will soon join us to celebrate the achievements of graduate and undergraduate students who have earned the right to walk in Commencement,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThis celebration is the culmination of years of hard work and accomplishment. The members of the Class of 2024 deserve to enjoy this milestone uninterrupted and unimpeded. It would be especially painful if students who graduated from high school or college during the pandemic were denied a full graduation ceremony for a second time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Several universities around the country have canceled their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usc-cancels-main-commencement-ceremony-after-far-left-extremists-disrupt-campus\/\" title=\"USC Cancels Graduation Event Amid Campus Disruption\">main commencement ceremony<\/a> because of anti-Israel protests including <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/columbia-university-nixes-main-commencement-event-after-protest-chaos\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Columbia University<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/usc-cancels-main-commencement-ceremony-after-far-left-extremists-disrupt-campus#\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">University of Southern California<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harvard Divinity School student Shabbos <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kestenbaum, who along with other Jewish students <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jewish-students-sue-harvard-for-failing-to-stop-anti-semitism-while-threatening-discipline-for-fatphobia\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">filed a lawsuit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  against Harvard for enabling anti-Semitism told The Daily Wire that Garber should\u2019ve acted sooner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt took Alan \u201cDo-Nothing\u201d Garber close to two weeks to denounce what students had been experiencing every day: lawlessness, anti-Semitism, and intimidation,\u201d Kestenbaum said. \u201cYet, while he acknowledges the threat these protestors pose, he still refuses to immediately and forcibly remove them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kestenbaum added that some of the flags he and other pro-Israel students placed on campus were vandalized over the weekend. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cLast Friday, we planted 1,200 Israeli and American flags in honor of the 1,200 Jewish, Muslim, and Christian victims of the October 7th Hamas invasion of Israel,\u201d he said. \u201cWithin 24 hours, at least three different people had vandalized or removed the flags and our hostage posters. It is telling that at Harvard University you can chant slogans calling for ethnic genocide against Jews with no consequences, while planting an American flag will be denounced.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We placed 1,200 American and Israeli flags on Harvard\u2019s campus to honor the 1,200 victims of the October 7th invasion. Within 24 hours, it was vandalized three separate times. Harvard\u2019s response? Nothing. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yaf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@yaf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z0wxPFZb68\">pic.twitter.com\/z0wxPFZb68<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shabbos Kestenbaum (@ShabbosK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShabbosK\/status\/1787567912787562742?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard University warns students in anti-Israel encampment of dorm eviction, exam ban, and campus suspension if they don&#8217;t leave. 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