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As the Trump administration threatens to cut off its federal support, Harvard recently released its long-awaited internal report detailing ethnicity-primitive discrimination on campus, especially against Israelis and Jews. The government claims Harvard has rotted bones, unilaterality of ideology and a stress on social justice activism rather than real inquiry. The university countered that when it was working to impose discrimination, the government had “beyond” to target the essence of what was studied and taught.
The report, by the Presidential Contingent, fights anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias, puts the famous university in a difficult situation. Its leadership has never denied that it has serious discrimination issues, which have been confirmed in multiple reports compiled by task forces, alumni groups and legislators. About a year ago, the task force recommended that Harvard take "substantive disciplinary action" against Israeli students, especially those on "terrible" conditions. No disciplinary action was taken. Instead, a Harvard law student was attacked by videos. Israeli classmate recently received a $65,000 school sponsorship scholarship, working for the U.S. Council on Islamic Relations.
Instead of expelling harassers and donkeys, Harvard attacked. While acknowledging that it could improve its anti-discrimination efforts, it accuses the Trump administration of handling internal affairs of universities using anti-Semitism as an excuse. “No government can decide what private universities can teach, which governments they can acknowledge and hire and what areas of learning and inquiry they can pursue,” Harvard President Alan Garber said on April 14. ”
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But, as the new report reveals, these requirements have a lot to do with fighting discrimination. One example shows how ideological bias and occasional outright impracticality promote paranoia towards Jews and Israelites. Fighting discrimination is likely to require more radical reform than what Garber is willing to offer.
Perhaps the most blatant example in the report involves the “Pyramid of White Supremacy” taught in the mandatory course at Harvard Graduate School of Education. It will go from "secret" to "open" and expand to "everyday racist norms" of "genocide". Most of them just demonize popular opinions, which leftist radicals hate. The middle of the pyramid includes "color blindness", "the myth of elite domination" and "anti-protocol action". But there, it's "Anti-Defamation League" and "Anti-BD", or boycotting boycotts, divestment and sanctions campaigns against Israel.
The pyramid should be mainly the source of embarrassment. It reduces Harvard graduate education into ideological indoctrination, a conspiracy education. But it also shows the paranoia against Jews and Israel, usually because of being seen as “white”, which is related to the progressive orthodox state of social justice.
This phenomenon is everywhere. As reported documents, Harvard students and faculty members engaged in ethnic discrimination have repeatedly been based on a gradual defense of victims, colonialism and race.
When public health schools’ webinars turn to criticizing Israel – there is no doubt that public health and the intersecting theory that the Middle East is related in some way – Jewish students ask why. They meet an obvious leftist rebuttal: “Who is more marginalized, Jewish or Palestinian?” In addition to the breathtaking historical illiteracy of such a question, it reveals the universality of attitudes considered to be limited to leftist activists: If you are not “marginalized” as a group, then paranoia with you is no big deal.
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Harvard's seminary told Jewish students to "embrace…' cancel the allowance. From this perspective, poor treatment of Jews is no different from harassing someone to join KKK.
These are just a few examples, not even trapped in the horror of tips Harvard students draw from their teachers. The report concisely states: “The concept of acceptance in a politically free or progressive campus space depends on Israel’s rejection as a recurring theme.”
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One undergraduate student said: "Those friends who are more extroverted Jews and Israelites, what they are going through is horrible. I feel lucky that I don't look Jewish." Jews and Israel certainly don't need to endure being called genocide defenders or white supremacists because they travel through the limbs. “Put on your headphones, make sure you don’t have an outside Jew, and walk to class.”
The problem is that they may only hear the exact same thing when they get there.