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Harvard For Hamas: Statement By Solidarity Groups On The Situation In Palestine With 34 Signatories
After Donors Pull Millions In Funding Harvard Prez Claudine Gay Forms Advisory Group' To 'Combat Antisemitism'
November 1, 2023
Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine
We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.
Today's events did not occur in a vacuum. For the last two decades, millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to live in an open-air prison. Israeli officials promise to "open the gates of hell," and the massacres in Gaza have already commenced. Palestinians in Gaza have no shelters for refuge and nowhere to escape. In the coming days, Palestinians will be forced to bear the full brunt of Israel's violence.
The apartheid regime is the only one to blame. Israeli violence has structured every aspect of Palestinian existence for 75 years. From systematized land seizures to routine airstrikes, arbitrary detentions to military checkpoints, and enforced family separations to targeted killings, Palestinians have been forced to live in a state of death, both slow and sudden.
Today, the Palestinian ordeal enters into uncharted territory. The coming days will require a firm stand against colonial retaliation. We call on the Harvard community to take action to stop the ongoing annihilation of Palestinians.
African American Resistance Organization
Amnesty International at Harvard
Bengali Association of Students at Harvard College
Harvard Act on a Dream
Harvard Arab Medical and Dental Student Associationp
Harvard Chan Muslim Student Association
Harvard Chan Students for Health Equity and Justice in Palestine
Harvard College Pakistan Student Association
Harvard Divinity School Muslim Association
Harvard Middle Eastern and North African Law Student Association
Harvard Graduate School of Education Islamic Society
Harvard Graduate Students for Palestine
Harvard Islamic Society
Harvard Law School Justice for Palestine
Harvard Divinity School Students for Justice in Palestine
Harvard Jews for Liberation
Harvard Kennedy School Bangladesh Caucus
Harvard Kennedy School Muslim Caucus
Harvard Kennedy School Muslim Women's Caucus
Harvard Kennedy School Palestine Caucus
Harvard Muslim Law School Association
Harvard Pakistan Forum
Harvard Prison Divest Coalition
Harvard South Asian Law Students Association
Harvard South Asians for Forward-Thinking Advocacy and Research
Harvard TPS Coalition
Harvard Undergraduate Arab Women's Collective
Harvard Undergraduate Ghungroo
Harvard Undergraduate Muslim Women's Medical Alliance
Harvard Undergraduate Nepali Students Association
Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee
Middle East and North African Graduate School of Design Student Society
Neighbor Program Cambridge
Sikhs and Companions of Harvard Undergraduates
Society of Arab Students
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1HfMvVpey18ArAnVHtp8UlqT_8V5zaR9sFE5ohC4Ls7U/mobilebasic
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MIM: After receiving wide reaching backlash which resulted in a 'doxxing truck' and major donors withdrawing funding from Harvard the Hamas solidarity groups removed the names of the signatories "for safety reasons".
"This statement was co-authored by a coalition of Palestine solidarity groups at Harvard. For student safety, the names of all original signing organizations have been concealed at this time."
"This statement was co-authored by a coalition of Palestine solidarity groups at Harvard. For student safety, the names of all original signing organizations have been concealed at this time."
Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine
We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.
Today's events did not occur in a vacuum. For the last two decades, millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to live in an open-air prison. Israeli officials promise to "open the gates of hell," and the massacres in Gaza have already commenced. Palestinians in Gaza have no shelters for refuge and nowhere to escape. In the coming days, Palestinians will be forced to bear the full brunt of Israel's violence.
The apartheid regime is the only one to blame. Israeli violence has structured every aspect of Palestinian existence for 75 years. From systematized land seizures to routine airstrikes, arbitrary detentions to military checkpoints, and enforced family separations to targeted killings, Palestinians have been forced to live in a state of death, both slow and sudden.
Today, the Palestinian ordeal enters into uncharted territory. The coming days will require a firm stand against colonial retaliation. We call on the Harvard community to take action to stop the ongoing annihilation of Palestinians.
This statement was co-authored by a coalition of Palestine solidarity groups at Harvard. For student safety, the names of all original signing organizations have been concealed at this time.
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'Doxxing truck' drives around Harvard showing names, photos of students who blamed Israel for Hamas attacks
A "doxxing truck" is driving around the campus of Harvard University with digital billboards that display the names and photos of students who allegedly signed a letter blaming Israel for Hamas' violent attack that killed more than 1,400 and injured 5,000 people over the weekend. Giant video screens hung on the sides and back of the truck display the words "Harvard's Leading Antisemites" in gothic script over a slideshow of Ivy Leaguers' headshots and names in bold, red block letters, according to photos on Social Media.
https://nypost.com/2023/10/12/truck-at-harvard-ousts-names-of-students-involved-in-letter-attacking-israel/
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MIM: The rampant antisemitism and pro Hamas sentiment at Harvard is apparently was too difficult for Claudine Gay who is the new/President/ Diversity Hire at Harvard to condemn the Hamas massacre of over 14,000 Jews in Israel. It wasnt until mega donors startied to publicly withdraw millions in funding and a tsunami of negative publicity that she announced the formation of an 'Advisory Group' to give the pretence of taking steps to deal with the Jew hating and pro jihad students and faculty at Harvard.
Maybe closing down the 34 + groups and expelling the inividuals who signed and wrote the pro Hamas open letter or, at the very least, banning them from meeting on and making use of campus property.
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Harvard President Gay Forms Advisory Group to Combat Antisemitism on Campus
Updated: October 30, 2023, at 3:09 p.m.
After Harvard faced fierce criticism over its response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, top administrators will work with a newly established advisory group to combat antisemitism on campus, University President Claudine Gay announced on Friday.
Gay revealed the formation of the advisory group in a speech about antisemitism at a Harvard Hillel Shabbat dinner held over Family Weekend for the freshman and junior classes. The event was attended by more than 200 people, including many Jewish undergraduates and their family members.
"Antisemitism has a very long and shameful history at Harvard," Gay said, according to a transcript of her remarks published online. "For years, this University has done too little to confront its continuing presence. No longer."
The advisory group assembled by Gay contains eight initial members: Geraldine Acuña-Sunshine '92, vice chair of the Harvard Board of Overseers; Thomas Dunne, the College's dean of students; Kevin J. Madigan, a Harvard Divinity School professor and Eliot House faculty dean; Martha L. Minow, a University Professor and former Harvard Law School dean; Dara Horn '99, a novelist and former visiting lecturer of Jewish Studies at Harvard; Eric M. Nelson '99, a professor of Government; Nim Ravid '25, an undergraduate student; and David Wolpe, a visiting scholar at HDS.
Harvard was thrust into the national spotlight days after the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee published a statement that said they "hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence" after Hamas' deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
The statement, which was originally co-signed by 33 other Harvard student groups, faced swift condemnation by fellow students, prominent Harvard professors, high-profile donors, and members of Congress. Many of the statement's most vocal critics — including former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers — also slammed Gay's administration for its slow response to the fighting in Israel even as the student groups' statement made global headlines.
In addition to Gay, several other senior University officials — including Harvard Provost Alan M. Garber '76, Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana, and Acuña-Sunshine — attended the Shabbat dinner as Harvard works to rehabilitate its relationship with Jewish affiliates.
In her remarks on Friday, Gay said she assembled the group of advisers to "begin the vital work of eradicating antisemitism from our community."
"In the weeks ahead, these advisers will work with me, Provost Garber, and the school deans to frame an agenda and strategy for combating antisemitism at Harvard," Gay added. "They will help us to think expansively and concretely about all the ways that antisemitism shows up on our campus and in our campus culture."
Gay also declared that antisemitism conflicted with Harvard's values.
"Harvard's mission and legacy is the pursuit and dissemination of truth," she said. "And the core of antisemitism is a lie — specifically, the denial of Jewish identity and experience."
"This lie has taken many forms, from Holocaust denial to the blood libel to conspiracy theories to the denial of the Jewish peoples' historical ties to the land of Israel," Gay added.
Harvard Hillel President Jacob M. Miller '25, a Crimson Editorial editor, applauded Gay's remarks in a statement on Sunday.
"President Gay understands that antisemitism remains a reality at Harvard," Miller wrote. "Over the coming months, we appreciate the opportunity to work in partnership with President Gay, her advisors, and our peers on campus to condemn and confront antisemitism everywhere it exists."
But some Jewish Harvard affiliates criticized Gay's speech for seeming to conflate antisemitism and anti-Zionism.
Shir Lovett-Graff, a spokesperson for Harvard Jews for Liberation, wrote in a statement that "the disproportionate focus on antisemitism on college campuses continues to distract from the devastating siege on Gaza."
"We know that a responsible, decolonial approach to fighting antisemitism includes the clarification that antisemitism is real, but antisemitism is not anti-Zionism," Lovett-Graff added.
Harvard spokesperson Jonathan L. Swain declined to comment on Harvard Jews for Liberation's criticisms of Gay's remarks.
Lovett-Graff also wrote in the statement that Gay "has not reached out to nor engaged with any members of Jews for Liberation."
"We hope President Gay and the taskforce will recognize the internal diversity of the Jewish community, and seek voices from beyond Harvard Hillel, including those of anti-Zionist Jewish students," they added.
—Staff writer Miles J. Herszenhorn can be reached at miles.herszenhornatthecrimson.com. Follow him on X @mherszenhorn or on Threads @mileshersz.
—Staff writer Claire Yuan can be reached at claire.yuanatthecrimson.com. Follow her on X @claireyuan33.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/10/30/gay-hillel-speech/
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