Harvard is reverting to its norm: Antisemitism, but Trump is on the job.

American Thinker ^ | 3 May, 2025 | Andrea Widburg, Thomas Lifson

[MtnClimber]

It’s worse now than in the past. Harvard used to want to keep Jewish students out; now it wants to see Jews destroyed.

Yesterday, the news was that the Harvard Law Review offered a $65,000 fellowship to a man named Ibrahim Bharmal to do public interest with CAIR. The only problem is that, before receiving the fellowship, Bharmal was charged with assaulting a Jewish student on Harvard’s campus, an action that earned him a sentence of community service and anger management. Given that his Muslim faith, with its jihadist mandate to kill Jews, drove him to the assault, I don’t know that anger management will do the job.

Decent people are outraged, as they should be, but the reality is that Harvard is reverting to type. Except for a very brief window of time, it was always a no-go zone for Jews. Having said that, this time around, Harvard’s antisemitism is worse than it was the first time.

The first time, it was exclusionary (i.e., we don’t want Jews polluting our WASPy Ivy League cloister); this time, it’s eliminationist (i.e., we want Jews dead). In a nutshell, Harvard and Hamas now have a lot in common.

Many of us have been paying attention to the slow-mo degradation of Harvard and other Ivies, a process that’s played out over the decades, but that accelerated during the Obama years. The change has come about as these institutions embraced leftism more overtly, and with leftism a whole panoply of leftist values (i.e., anti-Americanism, anti-Christianity, antisemitism, anti-men, anti-whiteness, anti-heterosexuality, etc.). Even knowing this, though, people were shocked by the sheer virulence of antisemitism that exploded on the Ivy League campuses following Hamas’s genocidal mass murder in Israel on October 7, 2023.

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TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

[MtnClimber]

Leftism seems to be a religion of hate.

[nopardons]

BTTT

[Salman]

It's not just "country club" antisemitism like in the bad old days.

The Ivies have evolved into terrorist madrassas.

[RummyChick]

The case of Zach yadegari is interesting. Here is a man that ivy league should want but was rejected. His name and his looks seem to suggest perhaps ethnicity of more recent immigrant type. I can’t tell what it would be but he doesn’t look white bread male that they like to reject

He has a very impressive background but no elite school wanted him

[RummyChick]

I wondered if Zach was Jewish after seeing his parents. Posters seem to think so but haven’t seen it confirmed

[Lurker]

“Leftism seems to be a religion of hate.”

It always has been.

Hence my tagline.

L

[V_TWIN]

“Given that his Muslim faith, with its jihadist mandate to kill Jews...”

Not just Jews.

[No name given]

Obviously.