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Harvard’s finally coughed up its big, bad report on campus anti-Semitism, and it’s a 300-page beast that lays bare the ugly truth about how the Ivory Tower fumbled the ball on protecting Jewish students after Hamas’s bloody Oct. 7, 2023, rampage in southern Israel. Alongside it, interim president Alan Garber’s tossing out an apology, admitting the school’s leaders screwed up big time in tackling the hate that’s been festering on campus.
The report, dropped Tuesday, doesn’t pull punches—it’s a brutal catalog of anti-Semitic garbage that’s been stinking up Harvard’s hallowed halls. From the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) giving a thumbs-up to the Oct. 7 terrorist slaughter to some anti-Zionist faculty clique peddling a vile cartoon painting Jews as killers of people of color, it’s a mess.
The report’s crystal clear: part of the problem is Harvard has been too spineless to give Jews the same anti-discrimination shield it hands out to other minorities like candy. It also has a laundry list of fixes to make Jewish life on campus less of a nightmare moving forward.
“I am sorry for the moments when we failed to meet the high expectations we rightfully set for our community. The grave, extensive impact of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas assault on Israel and its aftermath had serious repercussions on campus,” Garber said, laying it on thick in the statement tied to the report.
“Harvard cannot — and will not — abide bigotry. We will continue to provide for the safety and security of all members of our community and safeguard their freedom from harassment. We will redouble our efforts to ensure that the university is a place where ideas are welcomed, entertained, and contested in the spirit of seeking truth; where argument proceeds without sacrificing dignity; and where mutual respect is the norm.”
The crew behind the report—the Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Bias—isn’t just whining; they’re demanding Harvard get its act together. They’re pushing for a total overhaul: tweak admissions to force kids to rub elbows with folks they don’t vibe with, use pre-orientation to prep newbies for the big leagues of elite academia, tighten up “time and place” rules on protests so things don’t spiral into chaos, and make sure the discrimination watchdogs have a specialist who actually understands anti-Semitism and anti-Zionist bullcrap.
“It is clear to the task force that anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias have been fomented, practiced, and tolerated not only at Harvard but also within academia more widely,” the report says, not mincing words. “We urge Harvard’s leadership, including the president, provost, deans, faculties, and offices of equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging to become champions in the fight against anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli bias — first at Harvard, and then as a model for institutions of higher learning everywhere.”
They’re also saying Harvard needs to keep the task force around to make sure the school doesn’t just pay lip service to these changes. And they’re not stopping at anti-Semitism—they want the same fire in the belly to tackle anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, and anti-Palestinian hate, especially in hot-button fields like medicine, public health, and education. Perhaps if the Muslims, Arabs, and Palestinians would end their scripture-fueled anti-Semitism, this wouldn't be an issue.
This report is landing as Harvard braces for a cage match with the Trump administration, which is choking off billions in federal funds over the school’s refusal to play ball on policies Team Trump says would make Harvard less of a woke dumpster fire and more merit-based. Trump himself hasn’t been shy, torching Harvard as a traitor to the American way.
“Harvard is an Anti-Semitic, Far Left Institute, as are numerous others, with students being accepted from all over the World that want to rip our Country apart,” Trump blasted on Truth Social Thursday. “The place is a Liberal mess, allowing a certain group of crazed lunatics to enter and exit the classroom and spew fake ANGER and HATE [sic]. It is truly horrific. Now, since our filings began, they act like they are all ‘American Apple Pie.’ Harvard is a threat to democracy.”
The school is scrambling to cover its bases, and this report—demanded by Trump’s crew on April 21—is part of that. They’ve already hit pause on a partnership with a West Bank school, shifted disciplinary processes to the president’s office (another Trump demand), and—get this—yanked funding for those segregated graduation ceremonies they’ve been running for years to prop up identity politics that spit in the face of American unity.
Conservatives have been screaming forever that this woke nonsense is what’s been fueling campus anti-Semitism.
But the Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance, born out of the post-Oct. 7 outrage, isn’t popping champagne yet. On Wednesday, they took to X, saying, “We appreciate the report’s identification of 3 problematic academic frameworks fueling campus anti-Semitism: denying Jewish connection to our ancestral homeland, embracing a distorted settler-colonialism framework, and refusing to recognize Jews as a historically vulnerable group. We now await concrete action plans from deans and meaningful implementation from President Garber, particularly regarding oversight of academic programs, accountability measures, and clear responsibility with metrics and public reporting.”
They’re not done: “We remain concerned that the report retreats to comfortable academic parlance about ‘balance’ and ‘constructive dialogue’ in the face of factually incorrect narratives. Let’s hope Harvard isn’t burying a serious problem in the spectacle of academia.”
Harvard’s got a long road ahead, and they're walking barefoot.
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