Harvard University
Excerpt: This is the Final Report of the Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias.
This report summarizes the findings of the Task Force’s study of conditions at Harvard University. We gathered oral and written documentation between March and September 2024, and we devoted the rest of 2024 and beginning of 2025 to writing the report. Our work involved meeting with hundreds of students, faculty, and staff in listening sessions for specific segments of the campus community as well as private conversations with individuals. We also met with members of the wider Harvard community, including alumni. In our outreach, we spoke with non-Jews, American Jews, and Jewish and Arab citizens of the State of Israel within the Harvard community.
Nothing like a report about how many Jewish students are discriminated against at Harvard to get the antisemites to circle their wagons in defense, attempting to change the subject to “Israel.”
They obviously haven’t read the report.
What a disgrace. Fraudulently pushing the narrative that protests against genocide is antisemitism. Your other blatant fraud is claiming that “Jewish students don’t feel comfortable on campus.” If you only talk to Ziionist extremist genocide promoters, who are somehow deluded into thinking they are Jews in good standing, and literally NEVER talk with the significant percentage of Jewish students who actively against the genocide, of course you will get that distorted story. That PFS presents itself as an advocate of press speech while engaged in a multi-moth campaign to enable a blatant genocide campaign against civilians on behalf of a foreign country is despicable beyond words. In its current form PFS does not represent free speech, Princetonians or even the interests of American citizens.
By the way, why is that unlike most non-profits, you consistently leave details about your major donors blank on your IRS forms? Yes, technicalities legal permit it. Decency does not. If the major donors are proud of their blank check support of Israeli’s genocide operations, then why don’t they want their names known to the public?
This seems the opposite of free speech; seems this is a “Woke Right” report. It uses Jewish identity and its protection as weapons against criticism of Israel.
Princetonians for Free speech should lambast the producers of this report and those would block circumspection about US and Princeton support for Israel.
Jake Offenhartz
Associated Press
Excerpt: New York University said it would deny a diploma to a student who used a graduation speech to condemn Israel’s attacks on Palestinians and what he described as U.S. “complicity in this genocide.”
Logan Rozos’s speech Wednesday for graduating students of NYU’s Gallatin School sparked waves of condemnation from pro-Israel groups, who demanded the university take aggressive disciplinary action against him.
Alice Speri
The Guardian
Excerpt: Parker Hovis was four courses away from getting his computer science degree from the University of Florida when he was arrested along with several other students at a pro-Palestinian protest on campus last spring. While the charges against him were dismissed and a school conduct committee recommended only minor punishment – a form of probation – the university administration suspended him for three years. He’ll be required to reapply if he wants to come back after that.
Hovis, who has since left Florida and is working to pay off his student loans despite never graduating, is one of more than 1,000 students or student groups that were targeted by their universities for punishment between 2020 and 2024 over their speech, according to a report published today by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (Fire). About 63% of them were ultimately punished.
Jessica Blake
Inside Higher Ed
Excerpt: All the pieces of House Republicans’ plan to cut trillions in federal spending are now public, and if the package becomes law, colleges and universities could face crippling repercussions, higher education experts say.
“It is a full-out assault on the ability of students—especially low-income students—to access and afford higher education,” said Jon Fansmith, senior vice president for government relations and national engagement at the American Council on Education. “It will have a dramatically negative impact, not just on higher ed, but on the whole population.”
Don Roberts
May 10, 2025
They are really trying to conflate cricism of Israel and anti-semitism. I mean its in the title! Israel comes up over 1,800 mentions. While they should NOT allow inappropriate protests or anti-semitism. Criticism of Israel or anti-Israel bias is not the same.
They even used an Israeli professor as an example of “anti-semitism”. She wrote an article in the British journal, The Guardian:
“I’m an Israeli professor. Why is my work in Harvard’s antisemitism report?
Atalia Omer
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/09/im-an-israeli-professor-why-is-my-work-in-harvards-antisemitism-report