University presidents are hired to protect the brand, not Jewish students
University presidents are not the guardians of American democracy. They are bureaucrats appointed to maintain their endowments
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Fast Forward House calls on MIT, Harvard presidents to resign over campus antisemitism, with 125 Democrats voting against
A number of the Jewish Democrats said the resolution was disingenuous because Rep. Elise Stefanik has failed to confront antisemitism in her own party
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Opinion Should Harvard and MIT fire their presidents? Either way, it’s bad for the Jews
The truth is that neither cracking down on hate speech or letting it continue is particularly good for us
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Fast Forward Harvard president will remain in office despite criticism of her response to antisemitism
Claudine Gay had faced calls to resign, but Harvard’s board voted to keep her in office after a lengthy meeting on Monday
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Opinion The university presidents were right and American Jews’ moral panic is wrong
Joining a right-wing war on higher education will not make us any safer
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Fast Forward Harvard students involved in pro-Palestine walkout and protest face disciplinary action
Undergrads cited for disruptive activities as university president Claudine Gay faces pressure to resign
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Fast Forward Rabbi David Wolpe resigns from Harvard antisemitism committee over president’s ‘painfully inadequate testimony’ on campus antisemitism
Wolpe, who is a visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School, has built a reputation as one of the country’s most prominent rabbis and Jewish thinkers
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Opinion University presidents waffled in condemning calls for genocide. Jews are on our own as much as ever
To suggest that antisemitic hate speech is problematic only when it violates university policy is a profound failure of leadership
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