Despite the heavy police presence, the protest, organized by Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP), proceeded without incident, according to the Harvard Crimson.
Approximately 80 protesters participated in the march, which concluded with a rally outside a campus building where Harvard’s interim president, Alan Garber, met with HOOP representatives. The group has been demanding that Harvard disclose and divest from investments related to Israel.
“No matter what the university says or does, our demands have always been crystal clear: Disclose and divest,” HOOP organizer Tamar Sella told the Crimson. “These meetings were never the end goal of our campaign.”
The protest also included speakers criticizing the university’s decision to discipline students who had participated in a pro-Palestinian encampment earlier in the year. The Crimson reported that five students involved in the 20-day encampment were suspended, while more than 20 others were placed on probation.
Harvard and other elite U.S. campuses have become focal points for anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activism, especially following Hamas’s October 7 attack on southern Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,200 Israelis and the abduction of 251 hostages.
Following the attack, roughly 30 Harvard student organizations blamed Israel for the violence. In June, a task force on antisemitism at Harvard concluded that Israeli students on campus were facing severe exclusion. The university’s handling of Jewish student concerns has been under scrutiny since the attack.
Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned in January after failing to adequately address whether “calls for the genocide of Jews” violated university policy during a congressional hearing. Gay’s resignation came after conservative activists published evidence of multiple instances of plagiarism in her academic work, though the university’s board had previously decided against firing her.
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Are these students there on full-scholarship, foreign funded full tuition, or did they get in some other way? Are they true “Harvard material”? I want full disclosure as well.
They spend their time chanting about this issue which may at most concern around 1 million people. Yet, in Afghanistan they just passed a law which forbids women to speak in public or show their face…total suppression of women’s rights. Not a word of protest about the 20 million women this law affects
“Globalize the intafada”… how is this different than “we want a progrom”? This is not free speech, it’s incitement to violence.
Well, this is heartwarming. Looks like the American college youth are really accomplishing something with their lives. Now they should start practicing suicide bombs.
please remember who stands behind these protest- Iran- who are paying to demonstrate.
This is so despicable so en raging. I can’t even wrap my brain around this so Israel attacked unprovoked with rapes beheading, burning people alive, and the stupid clueless Jew, hating world, blames the victims, and not the savages and as Douglas Murray says so brilliantly why is the world silent with all the torture and murder around the world in Yemen Syria Darfur, and Sudan? Why not one word, not one word of condemnation
only towards innocent Israel, who is attacked 24 seven by these monsters, may HKBH. destroy
AMALEK. and all our enemies
To prove how idiotic and incomprehensible this nonsense is the gays for Palestine of course there’s no such country as that but those queers are marching for the terrace. That would certainly throw them off rooftops while Tel Aviv has a gay pride parade so go figure this is so beyond comprehension it’s insanity. Jew hatred