Harvard University ranks first in antisemitism
Harvard prides itself on ranking first in all things. And now they do—on three measures of campus antisemitism. The AMCHA Initiative, which tracks campus antisemitism, recently issued a report covering the 2021-2022 school year. It quantifies threats to Jewish identity, explained as the redefinition, denigration and suppression of Jewish identity. Amcha’s study shows a coordinated attempt to redefine … Continue reading
Harvard Students Vote To Send Student Money To Anti-Semitic Group
If everyone admitted to a college is invited to campus, but Jewish students are made to feel less welcome, is the campus still everyone’s home? I never wondered about this as an undergraduate. But I absolutely did this week, after reading that Harvard’s Undergraduate Council (UC) funded Israeli Apartheid Week on campus. When I arrived … Continue reading
Campus Conservatives, You Are Not Alone
When I graduated from Harvard’s Kennedy School in 2009, I launched a parting shot at faculty and administrators in our student newspaper. After two years of them making me feel largely unwelcome on campus because of my conservatism, I called out the school for prizing all diversity save intellectual diversity and its insistence on teaching complex policy … Continue reading
The Road Not Taken
Former Lehman Brothers CFO Erin Callan Montella doesn’t want her new book painted as “the anti-Lean In treatise”. But what if, regardless of the author’s intentions, that’s exactly how it reads? Montella’s memoir chronicles her glittering professional experiences at a white shoe New York law firm and investment banking house Lehman Brothers, as well as her … Continue reading
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Harvard surrenders to antisemitism
Posted by melissa braunstein on January 31, 2023 · Leave a Comment
The once mighty Harvard University has been brought to heel. Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), has forced Harvard Kennedy School Dean Douglas Elmendorf to surrender and offer Roth a fellowship. Roth and the leftist magazine The Nation set the narrative with a story about Harvard’s decision not to grant Roth a fellowship … Continue reading →
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