Harvard Acknowledges Deep Antisemitism Crisis Following Scathing Internal Report

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Harvard Acknowledges Deep Antisemitism Crisis Following Scathing Internal Report

 

Harvard University has released a long-awaited internal report exposing what it describes as a deeply hostile climate for Jewish and Israeli students on its campus, both before and after the October 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel. The findings prompted an apology from the university’s interim president and a slate of proposed reforms amid growing political and legal pressure, including a high-profile clash with the Trump administration.

 

The 311-page report paints a disturbing portrait of campus life for Jewish students, revealing that many experienced harassment, social ostracism, and pressure to disassociate from their identity. “I am sorry for the moments when we failed to meet the high expectations we rightfully set for our community,” said interim president Alan Garber, acknowledging the university’s shortcomings in protecting students from bias and discrimination.

 

Jewish students, especially those from Israel, were reportedly shunned, bullied, and subjected to intense scrutiny based on their heritage and political associations. The report opens with a striking anecdote: a Jewish student was discouraged from sharing a story about his Holocaust survivor grandfather who found refuge in Israel. Organizers told him the narrative was not “tasteful” and laughed at him when he expressed confusion.

 

 

According to the report’s authors, such incidents reflected a broader pattern in which being Jewish or Israeli had become “triggering” and politicized. “Perhaps the best way to describe the existence of many Jewish and Israeli students at Harvard in the 2023-24 academic year is that their presence had become triggering, or the subject of political controversy,” the report stated. It emphasized that these students had been placed “on the wrong side of a political binary that provided no room for the complexity of history or current politics.”

 

“No other group was constantly told that their history was a sham, that they or their co-religionists or coethnics were supremacists and oppressors, and that they had no right to the protections offered by antibias norms,” the report noted. Jewish students reportedly concealed their identities, declined admission offers, left academia, or withdrew from campus life altogether. Social circles fractured, and some students were pressured to sever ties with Israelis purely because of their nationality. Others were told they must denounce Israel to prove they were “one of the good ones.” At times, even Israeli Muslims and Christians were snubbed solely for being from Israel.

 

The report documents several inflammatory incidents, including student groups circulating an antisemitic cartoon showing a Star of David-marked hand placing nooses around the necks of a Black man and an Arab man. Graduation ceremonies were not immune: one speaker allegedly echoed conspiracy theories about Jews, money, and power, while another blamed Israel for genocide in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Hostage posters were defaced with antisemitic slogans, and Israeli students were excluded from student clubs.

 

The situation escalated dramatically after the Hamas-led invasion of Israel on October 7, when 33 student organizations issued a letter blaming Israel for the attack. The report says this response “appeared to be blaming the victims, whose blood was not yet dry, for their own deaths.” This moment of profound grief and shock for Jewish students and faculty quickly transformed into one of isolation and anger.

 

Student experiences underscore the shift. “Before October 7th, being Jewish was largely irrelevant. It was not a barrier. I was proud to be Jewish,” one student recalled. “After October 7th, I experienced the following in this order: first there was pressure, then there was chaos, then hostility, and in certain spaces, the normalization of subtle discrimination.” Another student lamented, “The anti-normalization idea is that Jews on campus with ties to Israel must be anti-Zionist to be welcomed. I’ve lost friends who abandoned me.”

 

The report was published as Harvard continues a tense standoff with the Trump administration, which has frozen $2.2 billion in federal funding and demanded changes the government says are necessary to combat antisemitism. Harvard has filed a lawsuit in response, in a case that could reshape the landscape of campus activism and administrative oversight across American higher education.

 

In response to the report’s findings, Harvard issued a set of proposed reforms, including revisions to admissions procedures, greater oversight of student organizations, new academic programs on Jewish history, antisemitism, the Holocaust, and Israel, and enhanced complaint and support mechanisms. The university also committed to ensuring applicants are evaluated for their willingness to engage with diverse perspectives, demonstrate empathy, and participate in respectful discourse.

 

The report offers a sobering account of how political and social tensions on campus have isolated and targeted a specific community, and it marks a pivotal moment in the university’s efforts to reconcile its values with its practices.

 

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[parallelman]

'...ensuring applicants are evaluated for their willingness to engage with diverse perspectives..,' Shouldn't applicants be evaluated for the willingness to study hard and ignore external 'pressures'.

[johng]

3 hours ago, parallelman said:

'...ensuring applicants are evaluated for their willingness to engage with diverse perspectives..,' Shouldn't applicants be evaluated for the willingness to study hard and ignore external 'pressures'.

 

We saw during the "pandemic"  that applicants have been selected for their willingness to go along with the "excepted narrative"  follow orders and not cause a fuss  otherwise all those hard years at medical school will have all been for nought  when they remove the "license to practice"

[Nick Carter icp]

22 minutes ago, ericbj said:

"Semitic people or Semites is a term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group associated with people of the Middle East, including Arabs, Jews, Akkadians, and Phoenicians."

 

Does Harvard promote ignorance of the English language?

 

   That is the word "semitic"

Now look up the word *Antisemite"

[connda]

There is something that is broken beyond repair within modern society.  Which is one reason I broke free from all of the Abrahamic religions decades ago.  Everyone is killing each other in the name of the same god.  It would be humorous if it wasn't so inhumanly and pathetically evil. 

Hence the retreat to Buddhism - nobody I have ever met who is a true Buddhist condones waging war and engaging in the killing of others based on their ethnicity or religion. Abrahamic religions pay lip service to "Thy shall not kill," except when their god tells them it's time to wipe everyone else out "in His name" of course.  So you have all three Abrahamic religions and their offshoots killing the other members of their Abrahamic religions, all uttering the name of the same god on their lips as they wage war and engage in killing. 

Can nobody else see the perverse irony it that?  There's the sad state of human-kind, but as a Buddhist, we explicitly acknowledge the reality we exist in - yep, this never-ending strife, conflict, killing, and destruction - in the name of god of course - is the reality into which we were born.  So you use that knowledge to transcend above the fray with compassion for those anchored in endless war and suffering. 

It's the state of this world - it will never change.  If you're smart, you look for the path out.

[Nick Carter icp]

2 hours ago, WDSmart said:

What do they expect after what they've been doing in Gaza? 

 

  So  Israel should just accept being attacked & murdered by an enemy and not respond and Jews should accept being attacked on USA campuses  .

   So, Israelis and Jews should just accept being attacked and not respond ?

[AgMech Cowboy]

2 hours ago, WDSmart said:

What do they expect after what they've been doing in Gaza? 

Maybe the Gazans (or more specifically Hamas) should have thought about the retaliation before they attacked on October 7th and the women, children and old men of Gaza celebrated in the streets.  The only solution after all the incursions from Hamas since 1948 is the annihilation of Hamas.  Israel has warned the Palestinians each time prior to their attacks. Maybe you should be questioning why Egypt won't allow the Palestinians through the Rafah crossing to safety.

[phetphet]

Jews and Arabs in general don't get along due to recent history. More so lately due to Gaza. Putting them together in any university or situation where they are together is going to create strife. Rules, legislation and threats of expulsion can be made to try and stop it, but it won't change the personal animosity. Only keep it suppressed inside.

 

 

[Yagoda]

9 minutes ago, ericbj said:

Despite the opposition of many Jews, particularly amongst the Orthodox, to the Zionist political agenda.

There is no opposition among Jews to killing terrorists.

[connda]

Harvard Acknowledges Deep Antisemitism Crisis Following Scathing Internal Report

 

Harvard published what they needed to publish in order to get their Federal funding back.

There - fixed it! 

[Yagoda]

22 minutes ago, ericbj said:

 

You mean no opposition to killing members of the IDF?

Why do you bother, you were outed months ago.

20 minutes ago, ericbj said:

 And what was your country doing in those places?

 

Spending our blood and treasure to make the world what it is. Freedom for guys like you to spew sick nonsens.

 

But, Im sure that you are on the other side of freedom.

[Nick Carter icp]

6 minutes ago, WDSmart said:

Yes, I would allow anyone to speak out against some other racial group anywhere, but not to harass members of that group.

That's called "Freedom of Speech" in our 1st Amendment. 

 

  Yes, but no one anywhere has been stopped from saying anything .

You seem to be deceptively using freedom of speech rights to allow abuse .

   No ones rights of free speech have been stopped

[Nick Carter icp]

2 minutes ago, WDSmart said:

No, I don't think that either Israelis, Jews, Palestinians, or Muslims should accept being attacked and murdered by anyone and not respond. I do think, however, that a response, if violent, should be somewhat proportional to the attack on them. After the response, there should be discussions on how to solve whatever problem exists and stop the violence.

(And, just to jog your memory, both sides have been attacking and killing each other, fighting over land, for many years.)

 

   Brining the group who carried out the Oct 7 th terror attack to justice is indeed a proportional response  .

   Once Hamas have been bought to justice , then the war can end

[WDSmart]

48 minutes ago, AgMech Cowboy said:

Maybe the Gazans (or more specifically Hamas) should have thought about the retaliation before they attacked on October 7th and the women, children and old men of Gaza celebrated in the streets.  The only solution after all the incursions from Hamas since 1948 is the annihilation of Hamas.  Israel has warned the Palestinians each time prior to their attacks. Maybe you should be questioning why Egypt won't allow the Palestinians through the Rafah crossing to safety.

I don't agree with everything you said about Israelis warning Palestinians before any attack, but I do agree that this fighting over territory has gone on since 1947/1948. If you take a look at how the map of Palestine/Israel has changed over that time, you'll see the Israelis have taken most of the land that used to be Palestinian. This is the origin of the problem, and, IMO, it won't go away unless other countries step in and enforce the 1947/1948 land distribution.

[proton]

4 hours ago, WDSmart said:

What do they expect after what they've been doing in Gaza? 

 

Fighting  war for once to end the constant attacks from Hamas you mean. If you start a war determined to destroy a state you think is an enemy don't start crying when the response is not half hearted.

[proton]

7 minutes ago, WDSmart said:

Whose "justice"? Is that "justice" the killing of over 50,000 men, women, and children since the Dec 7th attacks? What does Israeli "justice" mean to you?

 

This war is not a numbers game, it's about right and wrong. Nobody said stop ww2 because X thousands had been killed on the Axis side.

[CG1 Blue]

4 hours ago, WDSmart said:

What do they expect after what they've been doing in Gaza? 

You might want to read it again:

"a deeply hostile climate for Jewish and Israeli students on its campus, both before and after the October 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel"

[Nick Carter icp]

1 minute ago, WDSmart said:

I disagree with all of the above, but especially the last line. The war will not end, no matter what happens.

 

  Then , do not complain about casualties .

If you choose to wage a war, then you must realise lots of your people will die in the process 

[Yagoda]

50 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

  Yes, but no one anywhere has been stopped from saying anything .

You seem to be deceptively using freedom of speech rights to allow abuse .

   No ones rights of free speech have been stopped

He would call Kristalnacht a mostly peaceful protest

[thesetat]

11 hours ago, Social Media said:

Harvard University has released a long-awaited internal report exposing what it describes as a deeply hostile climate for Jewish and Israeli students on its campus, both before and after the October 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel. The findings prompted an apology from the university’s interim president and a slate of proposed reforms amid growing political and legal pressure, including a high-profile clash with the Trump administration.

I wonder if Harvards Lawyers dropped their lawsuit against the US for their ceasing funding to the school for this reason. Now that their own reports were saying is true as the reason for Trump ceasing that money. Either they have to drop it or find a new tactic to get their funding back. A few small changes or saying they will make a few small changes means nothing. I think Trumps lawyers needs to attack this wholeheartedly now that even the school has proof Trump was correct to do that... 

This OP must really irk those Dems who attacked Trump and sided with the school.. 

[Social Media]

A number of posts have been removed for pure deflection and off topic diversions. An antisemitic post removed from @WDSmart

 

Please discuss the topic, there are numerous other Israel/Hamas topics where you can express your views on the actual war.

 

Harvard Acknowledges Deep Antisemitism Crisis Following Scathing Internal Report

 

 

[Bkk Brian]

sickos

 

Updated March 4, 2025, at 9:29 p.m.

The Harvard University Police Department is investigating an incident involving a pro-Palestine protester who tore down a poster depicting the faces of Israeli hostages during a Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine protest on Monday.

The person who tore down the poster was wearing the Harvard University ID badge of Jonathan S. Tuttle, a cataloguer of published materials at the Radcliffe Institute’s Schlesinger Library, according to photos reviewed by The Crimson.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/5/hostage-posters-removed-investigation/