Over 100 Harvard Faculty Members Slam President’s Condemnation of ‘From the River to the Sea’
“imprudent as a matter of university policy and badly misjudged as an act of moral leadership”
As I have been saying for the last few weeks, Harvard has a serious problem.
The College Fix reports:
Over 100 faculty rip Harvard president’s condemnation of slogan ‘from the river to the sea’
On Monday, over 100 Harvard University faculty members signed on to a letter expressing their “profound dismay” over President Claudine Gay’s condemnation of the “pro-Palestine” slogan “from the river to the sea.”
On November 9, Gay wrote in an email that the phrase “bear[s] specific historical meanings that to a great many people imply the eradication of Jews from Israel.”
The Crimson reports the faculty letter says “from the river to the sea” has a “long and complicated history,” and that Gay’s singling out of one meaning is “imprudent as a matter of university policy and badly misjudged as an act of moral leadership.”
Apparently referencing the pro-Palestinian letter signed by over 60 Harvard student groups (which blamed Israel for the October 7 Hamas assault), the letter says “At a moment when an affiliate of the University has with apparent impunity stood in the yard and accused students of supporting terrorism, your delineation of the limits of acceptable expression on our campus is dangerously one-sided.”
The faculty also say that criticism of Israel “cannot be ruled as ipso facto antisemitic” and they request that Gay direct the new campus advisory group on antisemitism to clearly define the term.
The faculty also asked Gay to resist “calls to set aside the University’s normal disciplinary procedures to prematurely sanction students and employees because of concerns raised about their political activity absent specific allegations of wrongdoing” and to reverse sanctions already placed on affiliates “pending a procedurally sound investigation.” …
The faculty letter also called on Harvard to “explicitly and specifically” affirm the school’s commitment to academic freedom, denounce what they described as a “‘Palestinian exception’ to free speech,” and create an advisory group on “Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab racism.” …
“We are firmly committed to academic freedom for our students — all of them. As should be obvious, this commitment brooks no ‘Palestine exception’ for students who harshly attack Israel’s policies,” [said the Council on Academic Freedom’s] Edward J. Hall, a Philosophy professor.
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“Complicated.” If there’s anyone who can find complications, it’s academics. Pretending that things are more complicated than they are (they call this “problematizing”) pays their salaries.
Let’s affirmatively hire people who don’t agree with white/freedom culture.
Wow, our hires are attacking white/freedom culture?
Oh dear! Who could have predicted that?
Those students should be banned from campus, and only permitted internet course. They have created a hostile campus environment that is threatening to other students.
These are FACULTY, not idiot brainwashed students. These are the brainwashers.
They are free to resign any minute now.
The Crimson reports the faculty letter says “from the river to the sea” has a “long and complicated history,” and that Gay’s singling out of one meaning is “imprudent as a matter of university policy and badly misjudged as an act of moral leadership.”
Cool how nuance is something you want to discuss…err umm condescend about now. I think you should do the Confederate flag and the Civil War next. Why should anyone grant leftists the benefit of the doubt on nuance?
There are no other possible meanings. The identity and location of the said river and sea are not in dispute. And if this “free Palestine” is to stretch from one to the other, then Israel can’t exist anywhere.
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” of what