The scrapping of the lecture is the latest controversy for Harvard in what has been a week of turmoil for the Ivy League institution.
(THE CONVERSATION) As part of Harvard University’s agreement in response to two federal lawsuits filed by Jewish students alleging antisemitic discrimination, it will adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, or IHRA, “working definition” of antisemitism.
Harvard University had to be dragged to court to make some small changes to prevent antisemitic outbursts on campus.
The university will now consider the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism when investigating complaints.
Harvard University's settlement of two Title VI lawsuits has sparked a heated debate over its impact on free speech and protections for Jewish students. The settlement, which includes the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism and the inclusion of Zionism as a protected category,
Many universities have been reluctant to embrace a definition that, among other things, considers some criticisms of Israel as antisemitic. The university’s decision was part of a lawsuit settlement.
The nation’s richest Ivy League university lost millions in fundraising dollars after drawing donor ire over antisemitism on campus. These settlements could be the first step to assuaging those concerns.
A day after the 47th president is sworn in, the nation’s oldest university pledges to protect the campus from antisemitism.
Harvard Medical School Cancels Class Session With Gazan Patients, Calling It One-Sided Having an optional class focused on health effects of warfare, and featuring injured patients, strikes me as eminently allowable. To cancel such a class is censorious. https://t.co/Bd6iRLH61n
Harvard, which has seen its campus erupt in pro-Hamas demonstrations after the terror group launched its Oct. 7 attacks, has settled two separate lawsuits alleging antisemitic discrimination brought by The Louis Brandeis Center and the other filed by Students Against Antisemitism and Shabbos Kestenabaum.