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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Document and cite the Harvard administration's tolerance of antisemitism.

MAGA: *crickets*

Document racial discrimination in admissions at Harvard.

MAGA: *crickets*

Name a more renowned and respected research institution than Harvard.

MAMA: *crickets*[/quote]

In fairness, Harvard itself has documented tolerance of antisemitism. 
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/5/23/penslar-ellias-antisemitism-task-force/

“Some of what the task force has observed clearly falls within the rubric of antisemitism, understood as identity-based bias against Jews irrespective of their national origin or personal beliefs.”

So although Trump is 100% doing this in bad faith, Harvard left itself open by its former limp-to-nonexistent response to antisemitism.

I’m a JHU employee and for the first time this year the mandatory diversity training actually included examples of antisemitism, among many other types of discrimination. This is progress. [/quote]
Nonsense.  All of this is nothing more than a smokescreen for Trump and billionaires to launder money through Harvard to Israel.

I'm glad that you consider the [i]Harvard Crimson[/i] to be a credible source because I'm not in the mood for you to handwave the evidence in support of my assertion.  Let's kick off with today's edition of the [i]Crimson[/i]:

[i]Harvard announced a new undergraduate study abroad program with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and launched a postdoctoral fellowship for Israeli scientists at Harvard Medical School on Monday in a dramatic expansion of the University’s academic and institutional ties to Israel.  The Office of International Education added BGU to its roster of approved-term time study abroad partners earlier this month. The program will begin in spring 2026 and offer Harvard College students credit-bearing opportunities for spring, full-year, or summer study in Israel.  The Medical School fellowship — funded by the Blavatanik Family Foundation and the Dorot Foundation and backed by the Kalaniyot Foundation, which has a chapter at HMS — will support Israeli researchers in conducting two to three years of basic biomedical research at HMS or one of its affiliated hospitals in Boston. . . . The announcements were also made just weeks after Harvard reopened negotiations with the Trump administration, which has withheld nearly $3 billion in federal funding since April amid ongoing concerns of campus antisemitism.[/i] [url]https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/7/29/harvard-israeli-university-partnerships/[/url].

This comes on the heels of the creation of another funnel of money to Israel:

[i]Among the other proposals surfaced in the memo is a recommendation to launch a “Legacy of Antisemitism” initiative — a project that appears to draw inspiration from Harvard's embattled $100 million Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative, which drew criticism after researchers alleged they were instructed to slow their work and avoid overly ambitious findings. The memo offers no detail about what the proposed antisemitism initiative would involve.  But another document released on Monday — an undated 10-page report authored by an unidentified individual or group whose relationship to the Trump administration remains unclear — provides a more detailed vision.  It called for the creation of a Center for Antisemitism Research, led by a director jointly appointed by Harvard and religious leaders at Harvard Chabad and Hillel. The center would be tasked with investigating the historical roots of antisemitism at Harvard and analyzing declining Jewish student enrollment.  Beyond the initiative, the report leveled wide-ranging accusations of “antisemitism and anti-Americanism” against the University and includes a laundry list of proposed reforms. It urged Harvard to suspend student government operations for five years, sever ties with Palestinian institutions including Dar-al-Kalima University as well as Birzeit, and establish a conservative academic center modeled after the nonpartisan Hoover Institution at Stanford University."[/i] [url]https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/7/23/harvard-trump-memo/[/url].

Wait, the Legacy of Slavery Initiative?  That sounds familiar.  One month after identifying 100 living descendants of black slaves owned by Harvard, the university abruptly ended that program in January within one week of settling an antisemitism lawsuit.  What the hell does the American slavery have to do with antisemitism?  Well, as always, it's clear that one penny spent on anything that even remotely benefits a black person is too damn much for some people.  Anyhoo, with all that money Harvard wasn't spending on the Slavery Initiative, did the university do anything with it?  Of course they did!

[i]The Harvard Management Company reinvested $150 million in Booking Holdings Inc., a company under fire for its operation in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, according to the HMC’s 2024 third quarter filings.[/i] [url]https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/1/28/HMC-reinvests-booking-holdings/[/url].

Yeppers!  That happened!  So, to recap, on January 21st, the [i]Crimson[/i] reported that the university settled an antisemitism lawsuit.  [url]https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/1/21/harvard-settles-antisemitism-lawsuits/#:~:text=Updated%20January%2021%2C%202025%20at%2010%3A05%20p.m.&text=Per%20the%20settlements%2C%20Harvard%20will,Remembrance%20Association%20definition%20of%20antisemitism[/url].  The next week, on the same day that Harvard reinvested in Israeli companies, the university effectively shuttered the Slavery Initiative.  [url]https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/1/28/hsrp-december-report-descendants/[/url]; [url]https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/2/12/antigua-garber-message/[/url].  And now, Harvard promises to bring back a program identical to the Slavery Initiative, but not for those pesky blacks.

And you call this progress?  Of course you do.  And you want me to believe this is about discrimination?  You're right.  It is, but you're dead wrong about the people who are being discriminated.  Follow the money.  That's the real reason every single critic of Claudine Gay wanted her gone.[/quote]

lol whut. Did you really just gin up “the Jews are responsible for anti-black racism at Harvard”? Of course you did. I bet you had to smoke a cigarette after typing that out.

You have serious issues.[/quote]

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