Saturday, January 13, 2024

Jewish students file discrimination suit against Harvard for "enabling anti-Semitism"



A group of Jewish Harvard students have filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the DEI-centric, anti-Semitic school. The suit claims university officials employ a "double standard" where other groups are protected from harassment and discrimination, but they do not do this when it comes to Jewish students who are targeted.

[H/T The NY Post.]

The suit was filed Wednesday night and alleges that Harvard has allowed students and faculty who have been accused of anti-Semitic act to remain on campus, adding that one time even gave a mob of pro-Palestinian demonstrators with "burritos and candy."

“Harvard’s anti-Semitism cancer — as a past Harvard president termed it — manifests itself as a double standard invidious to Jews,” the lawsuit reads, which was filed in Boston federal court.

“Harvard selectively enforces its policies to avoid protecting Jewish students from harassment, hires professors who support anti-Jewish violence and spread antisemitic propaganda, and ignores Jewish students’ pleas for protection.”

The lawsuit argues that the university “permits students and faculty to advocate, without consequence, the murder of Jews, and the destruction of Israel, the only Jewish country in the world.

“Meanwhile, Harvard requires students to take a training class that warns that they will be disciplined if they engage in ‘sizeism,’ ‘fatphobia,’ ‘racism,’ ‘transphobia’ or other disfavored behavior.”

In addition, and very importantly, the suit said that Harvard officials have  “been aware of its anti-Semitism for years, but its response has been, to say the least, clearly unreasonable and totally unacceptable in not just tolerating, but enabling anti-Semitism.”

The suit goes on to say that even prior to the October 7 attack by the Hamassholes on Israeli citizens, the group Harvard Out of Palestine “led a relentless campaign against retired Israeli Major Gen. Amos Yadlin, a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government” in which students marched through campus in April 2022, banging on drums and using a megaphone to accuse Yadlin of being personally responsible for “genocide.”

Obviously, not only do Harvard students and most other college students in the U.S., not understand what genocide is, they are ignorant, willfully and otherwise, to what Hamas pledges against Israel and Jews in the diaspora. 

Wednesday’s suit comes amid a Congressional investigation into the reports of anti-Semitism on Harvard's campus. The House Committee on Education and the Workforce has demanded Harvard hand over all documents related to Jewish students and anti-Semitism on campus.

It is giving the university just two weeks to comply.


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