The House Committee on Education and the Workforce has produced a report on campus anti-Semitism which states, among other things, that campus anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, and anti-Semitic disturbances were "permitted to operate unabated, in flagrant violation of university policies, culminating in widespread encampments and pro-Hamas demonstrations."
The report details a meeting between Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Columbia president Minouche Shafik in January in which Schumer, who's a Democrat, sought to reassure Shafik that she "didn't need to worry about pesky congressional investigations." He advised her to tell her administration to just "keep their heads down" and that the concerns being raised about her handling of the campus protests were "really only among Republicans."
The report also revealed that,
...in the wake of Oct. 7, Harvard's top administrators, including former president Claudine Gay, "excised language from a university statement that would have condemned Hamas's terrorist attack." Gay also privately urged Harvard Corporation senior fellow Penny Pritzker not to label the phrase "from the river to the sea" anti-Semitic, as doing so "would raise questions about why the University was not imposing discipline for its use."The full story is at the link and it's replete with interesting details.
"The report also shows that alumni wrote to Gay expressing concern in the wake of a Washington Free Beacon report about the assault of an Israeli student during an anti-Israel protest, noting, 'Harvard's tolerance of violent hate speech toward Jews versus likely reaction to such behavior directed at other ethnic groups.'
Harvard never took disciplinary action against the students captured on video accosting their classmate, though the Suffolk County District Attorney's office has slapped two of them with criminal charges — an investigation the university has not cooperated with."
Evidently, the highest echelons of the Democrat Party as well as the administrators of these universities, who are probably themselves all Democrats, see no problem with the harassment of Jews and explicit support for one of the most horrible terrorist organizations of the 21st century.
One can only marvel at the moral vacuity displayed by the contemporary left in general and these individuals in particular.
