Posted on 01/13/2024 5:21:06 AM PST by MtnClimber
'Based on its track record, it is inconceivable that Harvard would allow any group other than Jews to be targeted'.
The Harvard University graduate students who were caught on film accosting and shoving a Jewish classmate during an anti-Israel "die-in" protest remain in good standing with the school, with one of the assailants avoiding discipline altogether, according to a lawsuit.
The complaint, which was filed Wednesday afternoon, accuses the Ivy League institution of failing to combat "outrageous antisemitic conduct" and ignoring "Jewish students' pleas for protection." Cited as an example is the Oct. 18 "die-in" protest held outside Harvard Business School, during which law student Ibrahim Bharmal and divinity school graduate student Elom Tettey-Tamaklo were filmed laying hands on an Israeli business school student. While a video of the incident—which the Washington Free Beacon first reported—went viral, Bharmal and Tettey-Tamaklo have largely avoided punishment, according to the suit.
Harvard "has not imposed any discipline on Bharmal," who attended another unsanctioned anti-Semitic protest less than two weeks after the "die-in," according to the suit. While Harvard did remove Tettey-Tamaklo from his role as a freshman proctor, the school "has done nothing to sanction" him otherwise, the suit says.
Harvard, which did not return a request for comment, pledged in a November statement to "address the incident through its student disciplinary procedures" but has not provided an update since.
"Harvard, America's leading university, has become a bastion of rampant anti-Jewish hatred and harassment," the complaint says. "Based on its track record, it is inconceivable that Harvard would allow any group other than Jews to be targeted for similar abuse or that it would permit, without response, students and professors to call for the annihilation of any country other than Israel."
In addition to its claims regarding Bharmal and Tettey-Tamaklo, the suit accuses Harvard law professor Jon Hanson of maligning Israeli Jews as "colonizers" who "'blow[] up' babies." The Dec. 5 congressional hearing that pressed top university presidents on their response to campus anti-Semitism, Hanson added, was a "master class in bad-faith culture war bullshit," according to the suit, which also says Hanson urged an Israeli student to refrain from "escalating" a complaint against Bharmal.
And they call conservatives Nazis.
but..but..but isn’t Hahavahd the ideal, the model, the caricature for DEI tolerance, acceptance and all the modern virtues of cultural inclusion?
So much for Hate Crimes Laws
Antisemite bastards on the Charles.
The Jews reduced their contributions and the Muslims raised theirs.
Probably BETTER “standing”
Harvard is for sale, period, to the highest bidder. Have been for decades.
This is not the same America that I have lived in for 75 years....
>>So much for Hate Crimes Laws
Hate Crime Laws are bunk.
Once person A puts their hands aggressively on person B, person A should be arrested, tried, and convicted of assault and battery under existing criminal codes.
Haavard sucks.
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