It has been horrifying to watch what is happening on the campuses of some of our most prestigious institutions following the Hamas attacks on Israel.
At Harvard, there was one such incident which involved a student from the Divinity School. See below:
The student has been identified and there were consequences.
The Harvard Crimson reports:
Harvard Proctor Indefinitely Relieved of Duties Following Confrontation at Pro-Palestine ProtestA Harvard College proctor has been indefinitely relieved of his duties following his involvement in a confrontation at a pro-Palestine protest, according to a petition that began circulating Friday evening and a student with direct knowledge of the situation.According to the petition, the First Year Experience Office — which oversees freshmen residential life — notified Elom Tettey-Tamaklo on Wednesday that he would be relieved of his proctor position “for an indeterminate amount of time.”Tettey-Tamaklo, who is a second-year student at Harvard Divinity School and a proctor for Thayer Hall, declined to comment.Proctors are Harvard graduate students, instructors, or staff who oversee a group of freshmen. They are unpaid and receive compensation in the form of meal swipes and housing in a freshman dorm. According to the petition, Tettey-Tamaklo was asked to vacate Thayer on Friday.“Elom’s treatment by the Residential Life administration seems to be in direct conflict with Harvard’s supposed ‘vital commitment to free expression,’” the petition states. “Expressing and organizing around our beliefs should not place us in jeopardy of housing or vocational insecurity.”
The Washington Free Beacon has more:
Elom Tettey-Tamaklo was “indefinitely relieved of his duties following his involvement” in the protest, according to the Harvard Crimson, which cited a “petition that began circulating Friday evening and a student with direct knowledge of the situation.” That petition, according to the campus paper, said the university asked Tettey-Tamaklo to leave his campus dorm over “student discomfort.”The move comes three weeks after the Washington Free Beacon first reported footage from an Oct. 18 “die-in” protest, during which Tettey-Tamaklo and other protesters pushed, shoved, and surrounded a first-year Israeli student at Harvard Business School. The protesters used keffiyehs to block their own faces and the Jewish student’s view while shouting, “SHAME!”
Of course, there is another side to this story, we are being told.
People pushed back on this theory.
It’s stunning that a Harvard Divinity School student would be involved in any of this. Harvard has a problem, and it has done serious damage to their image in recent weeks.
Featured image via Twitter video.
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