{"id":509,"date":"2023-12-10T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=509"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:25:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:25:36","slug":"harvard-bans-cisheterosexism-but-shrugs-at-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"“Harvard Bans \u2018Cisheterosexism\u2019 but Shrugs at Antisemitism”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oped in the WSJ by Congresswoman Elise Stefanik – who drew out the absurdity of the Ivy League Presidents a few days ago Harvard's President can't say If 'Calling For The Genocide Of Jews Violates Harvard's Rules'<\/a> . And Stefanik is a Harvard '06 graduate.<\/p>\n

What constitutes bullying and harassment at Harvard? A mandatory Title IX training last year warned all undergraduate students that \u201ccisheterosexism,\u201d \u201cfatphobia\u201d and \u201cusing the wrong pronouns\u201d qualified as \u201cabuse\u201d and perpetuated \u201cviolence\u201d on campus. <\/a><\/p>\n

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But when I asked Harvard President Claudine Gay at a congressional hearing whether calls for the genocide of Jews violated the university\u2019s rules on bullying and harassment, she answered: \u201cIt depends on the context.\u201d Pressed further, she said it would qualify \u201cwhen it crosses into conduct.\u201d I received similar answers from the presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

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This lack of moral clarity is shocking. If only it were surprising. In the months since Oct. 7, the mainstreaming of anti-Jewish hate has been on full display at the poisoned Ivy League and other so-called elite schools, as has the gutless lack of response from university leaders. When 34 Harvard student groups signed a statement that they \u201chold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence,\u201d Ms. Gay and other Harvard leaders were silent for days.<\/p>\n

Since then, we have heard reports of Jewish students being spat on, verbally accosted and, in a widely circulated video, physically assaulted. We\u2019ve seen students march chanting \u201cThere is only one solution: Intifada revolution,\u201d a call for violence against Israel. They follow that with a chant of \u201cGlobalize the Intifada,\u201d implying that the hatred of Israel is a hatred of Jews everywhere, including on campus.<\/p>\n

The Penn, Harvard and MIT presidents\u2019 refusal to identify these calls for violence as policy violations is revealing, and their attempt to justify it with feigned concern for free speech is insulting. Just this year, Harvard placed dead last among 248 universities on the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression\u2019s College Free Speech Rankings, receiving the only score of zero out of 100.<\/p>\n

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While this hypocrisy is being exposed now, it has been festering for years. The failure to call out and punish those demanding the genocide of Jewish people is the consequence of decades of appeasement of radicalism and watering down of principle at our most hallowed institutions of higher education, which were founded as bastions of moral clarity and the pursuit of truth.<\/p>\n

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The leaders of these universities want us to believe they face, through no fault of their own, a predicament for which they have no responsibility or accountability. In fact, they are directly responsible for the vile antisemitic hatred overrunning their campuses. For years they have selectively enforced their own policies to weed out certain viewpoints while fostering others, and now they are reaping the harvest.<\/p>\n

The pathetic testimony of the Harvard, Penn and MIT presidents has been viewed more than a billion times worldwide, making it the most viewed congressional testimony in history\u2014deservedly so, because it shocked the conscience of the world. The only acceptable consequence is that the boards immediately replace them with leaders who will restore moral clarity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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