“Denounce Israel to be one of the good ones” — Harvard’s disgusting demand to Jewish students exposed

Harvard Report Uncovers Campus Culture Where Jewish Students Pressured to Denounce Israel

Harvard University released its long-anticipated report on campus antisemitism Tuesday, revealing a disturbing pattern of institutional neglect and a hostile environment for Jewish students. The investigation, prompted by mounting complaints and public scrutiny, lays bare how Jewish and Israeli students have faced systematic marginalization, harassment, and pressure to renounce any affiliation with the State of Israel.

According to the findings, many classrooms at Harvard fostered an atmosphere where expressing support for Israel, or even sharing personal stories linked to Jewish identity, was effectively discouraged or penalized. The report describes how participation in academic discourse often hinged on adopting a particular stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict. In one troubling case, a Jewish student who sought to speak about their grandfather’s escape from the Holocaust to what is now Israel was told their remarks were “not tasteful” and “inherently one-sided” because they failed to acknowledge Palestinian displacement.

Other students reported being routinely interrogated about their views on Israel, with many pressured to explicitly denounce the Jewish state in order to be accepted socially and academically. “We were asked to prove we were ‘one of the good ones’ by rejecting Israel,” one student told investigators.

At Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, a required course circulated a “Pyramid of White Supremacy” that labelled opposition to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement as “coded genocide” placing it just one tier below explicit acts of racial terror such as Ku Klux Klan membership. When a Jewish student voiced objections, the professor refused to remove the offensive material.

Similar issues arose at the School of Public Health, where Jewish students questioning anti-Israel narratives in webinars were confronted with dismissive rebuttals, such as, “Who is more marginalized, Jews or Palestinians?” Meanwhile, Harvard Divinity School promoted what it termed a “pedagogy of de-zionization,” explicitly blaming Jews for two alleged sins: founding the State of Israel and participating in White supremacy in America.

The Medical School was cited for particularly egregious behaviour when, during its Spring Admitted Students Preview Day, student organizers donned keffiyehs, chanted “Free Palestine,” and informed prospective students that “Zionists are not welcome at HMS.”

Following the report’s publication, Harvard President Alan Garber issued an apology, acknowledging, “I am sorry for the moments when we failed to meet the high expectations we rightfully set for our community.” Garber announced that each school’s dean is now tasked with developing action plans to implement the report’s recommendations by the end of the academic term.

Harvard’s struggles come amid growing scrutiny over campus antisemitism nationwide. The university, which led all Ivy League institutions with 70 days of anti-Israel protests during the 2023-2024 academic year, now faces the threat of a $2.2 billion freeze in federal funding due to its failure to comply with mandated protections for Jewish students under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.