Posted on 10/21/2023 12:46:34 PM PDT by grundle
Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX88ZGfdKl4
Harvard University leaders have no comment.
A first-year Israeli student at Harvard Business School was shoved and accosted amid a "die in" protest held on Wednesday to assail Israel’s retaliatory attacks on Hamas.
The incident, captured on video reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, shows the student saying "don’t grab me" and "don’t touch my neck" as protesters surround him, blocking his view and their own faces with keffiyehs.
Eventually, the student tells them, "I live here," as he tries to make his way through the crowd.
"You’re grabbing me," he says, amid shouts of "SHAME!"
The student, who asked to remain anonymous, described being pushed and shoved as he tried to film them with his phone. A report to the FBI identified two of the people laying hands on him as fellow Harvard University graduate students, one a law student, Ibrahim Bharmal, a member of the Harvard Law Review, and the other a divinity school graduate student, Elom Tettey Tamaklo, who lives with Harvard undergraduate students in supervisory role known as a proctor.
Bharmal and Tamaklo did not respond to requests for comment.
A report has been filed with the Harvard University Police Department and the FBI’s Boston office. "An Israeli student on his way to class pulled his phone out to film the rioters and he was attacked. He was assaulted both physically and verbally. Throughout the assault he kept calm, but was aggressively attacked by Pro-Palestine rioters," reads the report to the FBI, which was reviewed by the Free Beacon. "At least 2 of those involved have been identified as employees of the University and have not yet been dismissed from their posts."
The FBI declined to comment.
It is unclear how or whether Harvard plans to address the incident, which was reported to Harvard Business School administrators. Neither the executive director of Harvard’s MBA program, Jana Kierstead, nor Harvard University president Claudine Gay responded to a request for comment.
The episode is the latest conflagration on the Harvard University campus since Hamas’s terrorist rampage on Israel and rising campus hostility to Jews. The Harvard donor and billionaire investor Seth Klarman, whose name adorns a Harvard Business School auditorium and conference center, said this week that Harvard has become "exceptionally hostile" to Jews.
His remarks came after statement signed by 34 student groups laid blame for Hamas's terrorist atrocities squarely with Israel. Harvard president Claudine Gay’s equivocal statements—which did not denounce the views of those groups—since have also drawn ire from former college administrators like Larry Summers and prompted some donors to cut their ties with the school.
Jewish students and administrators are also expressing concern about the the university’s lax response to expressions of hostility toward Israel and the Jewish people. "This morning I was reflecting on the lengths to which Harvard went to try and penalize students who were members of off-campus Final Clubs. Yet, beyond saying that they don’t speak for the university, it says and does nothing about students and Harvard entities who support Jewish murder, and call for more of it," Rabbi Hirschey Zachai, the founder and president of Harvard’s Chabad wrote in an email obtained by the Free Beacon. "It severed its ties with single-gender Final Clubs in 1984, but in 2023 allows student organizations to maintain their Harvard affiliation while supporting terror and calling for more of it."
In correspondence with law enforcement, the victim of Wednesday’s bullying identified two of assailants as law school student Ibrahim Bharmal, a member of the Harvard Law Review and a Stanford University graduate, and Elom Tettey Tamaklo, a divinity school student who lives alongside first-year students and "host weekly study breaks" to "help with your adjustment to Harvard. You'll find they are an excellent source of information about academics, extracurriculars, social life, and College resources."
Bharmal in 2018 won Stanford’s Sterling award for service. The citation recognized his work "with the American Middle Eastern Network for Dialogue at Stanford, including serving as global engagement chair" and noted that he was active with "Markaz, the Muslim Student Resource Center and has been a voice of honesty and compassion around issues within the Muslim community.
If those jew hating leftists want to do a “die in” perhaps they can do the real thing the next time do everyone a favor
The behavior in the video resembles that of children ganging up to bully one of their classmates.
The Millies and Zeros always wanted to be anti-Vietnam hippies. Their “perfesers” told them how much fun they had back in those days doing “die-ins”.
Normal students need to give the retards something to “die” about. Step on their head or something.
“Harvard University leaders have no comment.”
“The FBI declined to comment.“
Their silence says it all. But perhaps eventually we will hear this:
Harvard: Understandably, the protesters got a little too emotional.
FBI: We looked at the video. This was not a hate crime.
We have been importing antisemitism in a heavy dose, so now the home-grown anti-semites feel brave.
Separate subject: what are chances a “Harvard Divinity student” is a Christian? Zero? Less than zero?
If the PROTESTING FOOLS knew that the Palestinians and Hamas HATE gays and LGBTLMNOP and threw them off buildings or killed them outright I bet they would stop all this nonsense. Ask them why they hate gays and I bet they would walk away. Instead we talk abt hating or not hating Jews. THAT is not the question. Palestinians and Hamas ALSO hate gays and lgbt whatevers too. I bet if you asked them why they hate gays they would stop this.
You want to DEESCALATE this? Stop making Jews the issue and make Gays and LGBT the issue. Trans and all.
Palestinians will tell you abt their hatred for gays and LGBT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mhsm18ISuE
American Universities: From “Institutions of Higher Education” to “Institutions of Marxist Indoctrination.”
The Harvard Divinity School student is liberal-Christian, and a professional Palestinian apologist!
When I was a Lutheran graduate student at Harvard, I used to regularly attend services at Harvard Divinity School (HDS), which was very convenient to both home and lab. After HDS became totally hostile to conservative Christianity, I wouldn’t touch HDS with a ten-foot pole! This was even long before I became Orthodox!
The Hamas lobby at Harvard is a small minority. However, the feckless and unqualified new president, Claudine Gay, is encouraging them by her weak response to their vile and terroristic actions!!!!
That student needs to start carrying.
Hamas is here.
It’s too late to fight them over there.
Harvard will hear from their wealthy donors. Several, both Jewish and Christian, have withdrawn pledges of million$ from University of Pennsylvania over this, and I’m sure many will from Harvard as well.
Around 25 years ago I read an article claiming that half the enrollement Harvard Law at the time were Jewish. I know that Jews and Asians have been since then been pushed aside in favor of Affirmative Actions, refugees and ROPs, but those alums in their 40s are the ones now in the big law firms making the megabucks. Those taps will stop gu$hing.
Let's go with "less than zero"—if any Christianity is allowed, it is probably being taught as full-blown heresy.
Being a Harvard student negates my give a damn. Being Jewish is incidental. They all deserve each other and whatever happens happens to them on that campus.
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