Haviv Rettig Gur
What if - bear with me - it really is a campus rife with antisemitism, and if you shrug it off or never encountered it that's a sign of, as the progressives say, privilege. It didn't target you. But people around you were being systematically harassed for who they were, and the harassers, as with all ideological bigotries, were allowed to feel righteous about it the whole time. And nothing moved until massive outside intervention was brought to bear. @Harvard didn't fix this on its own. Harvard wasn't horrified by the bigotry itself. Harvard isn't earnestly and authentically upset about it even now. Every corrective act now being undertaken is instrumental, an attempt to get the federal government off their backs and restore lost federal funding and donations.
daniela
More tidbits from the Harvard Antisemitism Task Force Report: "Many Jewish Harvard affiliates were routinely asked to clarify that they were 'one of the good ones' by denouncing the State of Israel and renouncing any attachment to it."
