Over 100 Harvard Profs Denounce Anti-Israel Letter Amid Backlash
“Sometimes there is such a thing as evil, and it is incumbent upon educators and leaders to call it out”
It seems as though the campus left has finally gone too far for the public and people are scrambling to do damage control.
The College Fix reports:
More than 100 Harvard professors denounce anti-Israel statement as backlash grows
Amid mounting criticism of Saturday’s anti-Israel statement by 35 Harvard student organizations, dozens of the university’s faculty signed their names Wednesday to a letter condemning the Hamas attacks and denouncing the student groups’ message.
“Hamas planned and executed the murder and kidnapping of civilians, particularly women, children, and the elderly, with no military or other specific objective,” the professors wrote. “This meets the definition of a war crime.”
Research Professor of Government Harvey Mansfield, psychologist Steven Pinker and Harvard President Emeritus Lawrence Summers were among those who added their names.
“The Israeli security forces were engaging in self-defense against this attack,” the signatories wrote.
The student organizations’ anti-Israel letter stating that they hold the nation “entirely responsible for all unfolding violence,” with no denunciation of violence by Hamas, “can be seen as nothing less than condoning the mass murder of civilians based only on their nationality,” according to the letter.
Additionally, Harvard’s latest statement at the time had failed to thoroughly condemn the violence or distance the university from the speech of its student leaders.
“Sometimes there is such a thing as evil, and it is incumbent upon educators and leaders to call it out,” according to the professors.
The letter added to the growing reaction against the student groups’ controversial statement.
Billionaire hedge fund manager and CEO Bill Ackman wrote Tuesday on X, “I have been asked by a number of CEOs if @harvard would release a list of the members of each of the Harvard organizations that have issued the letter assigning sole responsibility for Hamas’ heinous acts to Israel, so as to insure that none of us inadvertently hire any of their members.”
“If, in fact, their members support the letter they have released, the names of the signatories should be made public so their views are publicly known,” Ackman wrote.
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“It seems as though the campus left has finally gone too far for the public and people are scrambling to do damage control.”
Next, Wokeness will be begging for an amnesty. We’ve seen it all before.
Harvard administration obviously would prefer to receive donations from Hamas.
They also have no desire to protect the First Amendment and would rather support King George and King Soros.
Donors and parents! Put your money into an institution that doesn’t sneer and spit on everything you hold dear.
The current elites at Harvard think 1984 is a guidebook.