Harvard’s Commencement Speaker ‘Compared Israel to Nazi Germany’
“also signed on to a letter which accused Israel of deliberately targeting journalists covering the current conflict”
Is this really the best Harvard can do for a commencement speaker? What an embarrassment.
The College Fix reports:
This year’s Harvard commencement speaker compared Israel to Nazi Germany
This year’s commencement speaker at Harvard University, Maria Ressa, compared Israel to Nazi Germany and accused the Jewish state of committing genocide against the Palestinians.
Ressa made her comments a month after Hamas’ assault against Israel in an editorial on her Philippines-based news site Rappler (which, allegedly, “fights for facts” ).
According to The Washington Free Beacon, Ressa (pictured) wrote that Israel’s counter-attack to Hamas’ October 7 assault which killed over 1,000 Israelis was (is) “disproportionate” and not merely retaliation but “all-out war.”
An English translation of the editorial reads in part “It is a great irony that the [Jewish] race that suffered centuries of oppression, even genocide at the hands of Adolf Hitler, is now [denying] the same aspirations [for] the Palestinians. We like to think that our world is more modern, more aware, and more compassionate, compared for example to the time of Adolf Hitler, or the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.”
Ressa had also signed on to a letter which accused Israel of deliberately targeting journalists covering the current conflict. In addition, Rappler has consistently avoided “terrorist” when referring to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, instead using the term “militants.”
According to her Amazon.com bio, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Ressa previously taught at her alma mater Princeton (politics and media; her own degree was in English with a certificate in theater and dance), and had “a front-row seat chronicling Southeast Asia’s transition from authoritarian rule to democracy.” Most of that time was spent at CNN in Manila and Jakarta, Indonesia.
Ressa hopes to “redefine journalism by combining traditional broadcast, new media and mobile phone technology for social change.”
Her book “How to Stand Up to a Dictator” ironically chronicles how governments’ “creep towards authoritarianism […] has been aided and abetted by the social media companies.”
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Comments
Considering they chose Claudine Gay as their President, we should not be surprised they would choose this type of person as their commencement speaker.
Sounds like she is interviewing to be the next Hah-vad president.
Her credentials seem acceptable to the faculty and students.
You mean a worthless box ticker?
This is yet another reason to avoid the Ivies as an educational choice
so what!!!
while they are doing that
how about a pro freedom person show the ACTUAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THE NAZIS AND COMMUNISTS AND THE BLMPLO movement
I suppose a boring white male was not on the list of commencement speakers.
Harvard is toxic woke trash dumpster fire!
I’m sure that Harvard congratulates itself on getting a Nobelist as the commencement speaker–regardless of how tone-deaf that makes them to the current problems they’re having. I’m sure she’ll have plenty to say about Israel. Perhaps next up should be James Watson–also a Nobelist–discussing his views on intelligence vs race. That would be an interesting contrast.
She’s right about one thing. It is a full scale war, as it must be. Netanyahu declared it to be a war. And loudmouth demonstrators aside, I get the sense that the large majority of the Israeli public supports it.
Harvard worked hard to find an antisemite as commencement speaker. As Hillary once said, “When they tell you who they are, believe them.”
Was she not booed? WTAF? “Shut up, you f***ing idiot!”