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An example of just how misguided faculty initiatives can get was the 2002 petition circulated by a group of Harvard and MIT faculty, students, and other affiliates, urging divestment from Israel and from U.S. companies that sell arms to Israel. This call for divestment was part of a much broader...
Instead of admitting their desire to join this oppressive boycott, the signatories to the petition blamed Jews for oppressing and displacing the Palestinian Arabs. The petitioners’ offense was thus three-fold: they joined the war against Israel, they absolved Arab leaders of their historical and ongoing role in...
Sept. 17, 2002: Sixty-five professors sign a petition calling for the University to divest from Israel. President Summers rejects the petition, saying in a speech that any calls for divestment from Israel are “anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent.?...
That tradition has had its ups and its downs, but it’s always been fascinating. My great-grandfather, S. Robert Stone, was in the Class of 1920, making him one of the first Jews to come here after they lifted the “Jewish quotas,?...
With the average grade at Harvard rising for the third consecutive year, Harvey C. “C-Minus” Mansfield ’53 is adding a few more A’s to the mix of marks in his notoriously difficult courses.The Kenan professor of government has...