Harvard University failed to take strong action against students for anti-Semitic conduct that violated the Ivy League school’s own policies. House Education and Workforce CommitteeWhich is investigating anti-Israel protests that took place on American college campuses in the wake of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel.
According to documents obtained by the committee, Harvard brought disciplinary cases against 68 students related to camping on campus from April 24 to May 14. Of those 68, none are currently suspended, 52 are still in “good standing”, 15 are not in good standing due to disciplinary probation, and one is on leave.
The committee said it believes Harvard is in the Violation of Title VIWhich prohibits “a hostile environment based on race, color, or national origin.”
“Harvard failed, end of story,” President Virginia FoxR.N.C. said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “These administrators failed their Jewish students and faculty, they failed to make clear that anti-Semitism would not be tolerated, and in this case, they failed to meet their legal responsibilities to protect Harvard students from a hostile environment.” The only thing administrators have accomplished is appeasing radicalized students who have almost certainly returned to campus ready to repeat the chaos of the spring semester, forcing Harvard to immediately change course. Needed.”
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People march from Harvard Yard on their way to Harvard Square during the first anti-Israel demonstration of this school year on September 6, 2024. (John Tlumacki/Boston Globe via Getty Images)
According to a summary of its findings provided to Fox News Digital, “Harvard investigated and documented students’ violations of its policies, some of which warranted semester-long suspensions, but ultimately under its own rules.” Failed to enforce and enforce meaningful discipline.”
The committee said discipline “would have been consistent with the Harvard Corporation’s declaration that ‘calls to violence’ and academic disruption ‘will not be tolerated,'” claiming that “[t]he record shows that Harvard failed to meet this There has been commitment and students have been allowed to engage in such conduct without any real consequences.”
Between October 7, 2023, when Hamas militants attacked southern Israel, killing approximately 1,200 people and taking hundreds hostage in the Gaza Strip, and April 24, 2024, when an Israeli “Harvard failed to impose any formal discipline on any student,” the committee said in a summary of its findings.
Before the cantonment was created, the committee said, “Harvard had referred only 12 students for conduct related to discipline Two anti-Semitic incidents: the occupation of University Hall on November 16–17, 2023, and the disruption of classes with bullhorns and anti-Semitic chants on November 29, 2023.” The committee said no students received formal discipline for these incidents and “all good Are in position. ,
“Harvard has also failed to hold student groups accountable for anti-Semitic conduct,” the committee wrote. On September 10, the Harvard Crimson reported that Harvard lifted its April 22 suspension of the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC). Is.” Groups eligible for school funding. “This reversal comes despite the PSC and its membership’s role in organizing illegal Harvard encroachment through the unrecognized group Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP).”
An anti-Israel protester hangs a Palestinian flag at his camp in Harvard Yard on May 7, 2024. (Lane Turner/Boston Globe via Getty Images)
The Crimson reported that while the PSC itself was not listed as a camp organizer, several of its members are part of HOOP, and the two groups work together to coordinate their Instagram posts.
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The committee noted that the Administrative Board of Harvard College reduced the sanctions of 35 students for whom it had initially voted to place on disciplinary probation of a period of six months or more, to a period of less than two months. For.
“This shortfall means that none of these students who were initially scheduled for a longer probation period remain on probation at the beginning of the fall 2024 semester,” their report said.
“The board initially voted to suspend five students for a year or more for camp-related conduct violations, but then reduced their sanctions to probation of no more than one semester,” the committee said. ,” the committee argued that those students “therefore appear to face no consequential discipline.”
Hundreds of graduates walk out of the 2024 commencement in Harvard Yard in an anti-Israel protest on May 23, 2024. (Craig F. Walker/Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Documents obtained by the committee show that every Harvard College student who appealed their camp-related disciplinary sanctions had their sanctions downgraded.
The report described how a student who participated in the camp and raised the Palestinian flag over University Hall, which is located on Harvard Yard, “was initially informed that he would receive a three-semester suspension.” But that three-semester suspension was downgraded to probation until December 20, 2024. The committee found that four other students who attended the camp were initially told they would need to withdraw for two terms, but each of these suspensions were downgraded. The penalty for probation will be significantly reduced until October 21, 2024.
The committee found that Harvard did not enforce any consequences for students who occupied University Hall and who disrupted classes with bullhorns and anti-Semitic chants.
The committee said the nine Harvard students who occupied University Hall on November 16–17, 2023, received no formal disciplinary consequences despite disrupting normal business operations by making loud noises and chanting slogans with the goal of occupying the building. Said. Instead, he received an informal “warning,” which, according to Harvard, “does not constitute formal disciplinary action.”
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Five Harvard students who disrupted economics and statistics classes with anti-Semitic slogans, including “From the River to the Sea” and “Globalization of the Intifada” on November 29, 2023, received no formal disciplinary consequences, the committee wrote, “and Instead they were given only a ‘warning’.” Two of the students were also involved in occupying the university hall a few weeks ago.
Fox News Digital has contacted Harvard for comment.
