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By Post Editorial Board. Media: Nypost
Harvard University has admitted the ugly truth: The left’s long march through its faculty and administration has borne poisonous fruit in the form of blazing Jew-hatred and the overall ruin of its campus climate and curricula.
Don’t take our word for it: Just read the elite Ivy’s own report on the Tentifada that sprang up in support of Hamas after Oct. 7.
The committee tasked with looking into this antisemitic conflagration detailed how over decades what began as a tense, even rancorous zone of disagreement on campus — specifically, over Israel’s efforts to defend itself from terrorist aggression and the national aims of various Palestinian political factions — changed into an “attempt by student activists to drive Israeli students (and Jewish students who feel connected to Israel) out of student life.”
This process was in train well before Oct. 7, and results (to use the words of a faculty member the report cautiously cites) from a “general shift of power from regular faculty and to para-academic administrators” that “has played an outsized role in the politicization and radicalization of academia and its intellectual and reputational decline.”
In short, Harvard has suffered “an ideological effort underway to weaken the post-World War II social consensus that antisemitism is a form of bias” along with “politicized instruction that mainstreams and normalizes” Jew- and Israel-hate (though the school couches this in a dodge: i.e., “what many Jewish and Israeli students experience as antisemitism and anti-Israeli bias”).
Turns out when you hand the keys to a school over to a cadre of frothy-lipped ideologues, its quality declines.
And it’s not just Jews who suffer: Everyone loses out on the diversity of thought and free exchange of ideas that should characterize life on campus.
nstead of reading the greats or mastering organic chemistry, they get crammed with gutter propaganda and crackpot theory.
That it took a mini-pogrom and months of public scrutiny to get Harvard to admit this glaring fact is beyond insane.
Yet, for all the report’s circumlocutions and efforts to bend over backward for armchair terrorists and the malleable-minded children of the American elite, Harvard has admitted the truth.
Embracing the blood libels of the left around Israel and the academic theories that undergird them and letting radicals abandon teaching for indoctrinating does foundational harm to any university.
Harm that is likely irreparable without (to use a buzzphrase popular among Hamas fellow-travelers) systemic change.
Whether the Trump administration’s rightful cutoff of funding will effect such change is an open question.
But the woke-academic cat is now out of the bag.
And there’s no shoving it back in.
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