🚨 BREAKING: Harvard Just Released its Final Report on Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Bias.
It’s 300+ pages and pretty devastating to read.
I thought I knew what was going on at Harvard, but even I wasn't prepared for this.
Let's break down the most shocking parts🧵
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A Jewish student was told they couldn’t share the story of their Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s rescue efforts because he helped Jews reach British Mandate Palestine.
Organizers said it was “not tasteful” and “inherently one-sided” because it mentioned Israel.
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Many Jewish and Israeli students were told their presence was offensive.
Some were asked to denounce Israel to be considered “one of the good ones.”
This came from every part of campus including peers, instructors, and faculty.
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Jewish students on academic trips were told their “Jewish tradition had become indistinct from a settler-colonial project.”
Some were told they shared guilt for "atrocities" committed by Israel.
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After Oct 7, Jewish students faced an avalanche of hatred on anonymous apps.
This digital harassment contributed heavily to a climate of fear and isolation.
Posts saying “Israel deserved it” were upvoted.
“It was surprising to see educated people post such horrible things”
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Some students posted images reading “Decolonization is not a metaphor” with blood dripping from the text labeled as Jewish blood.
Other posts regularly used terms like “Israeli scum” and “Zionist dirtbags.”
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Israeli students had it particularly hard. Many avoided certain degree programs, courses, and class discussions because of antisemitic hostility.
One said they felt every comment was filtered through: “The Israeli is speaking.”
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One administrator told a Jewish student they were in “a whole world of trouble” for deleting horrifically offensive antisemitic posts from a group chat.
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At a Harvard Law event for the families of the hostages, Harvard chose to move the Jewish students for safety reasons while protestors roamed around freely.
“They walk around like they own the place.”
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As we well know, chants like “Globalize the Intifada” were widespread on campus.
Many Israeli students on campus survived the Second Intifada and said that hearing it chanted daily was traumatizing.
Anyone who spent time in Israel during that period knows what they mean.
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At a Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies event in Harvard Divinity School, Oct 7 was described as an attack on “Israeli Jewish settlements.” in an effort to dehumanize the victims and erase the civilian massacre that took place.
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At the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Healths "Palestine Program", Israel was portrayed as existing only to oppress Palestinians.
When Jewish students raised concerns, they were asked, “Who is more marginalized, Jews or Palestinians?”
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In a university-wide survey, most respondents said they do not feel safe expressing their political views.
They feared academic or professional consequences.
Some shocking stats from Jewish students. 👇
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The rest of the report continues in much the same vein, though it places significant emphasis on anti-Muslim hate which I found odd, given that a separate report was commissioned to address that.
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This report is a damning indictment of the most prestigious university in America.
That it took Trump getting elected to force change is an embarrassment.
That the president quit because she couldn’t say calling for genocide is wrong is shameful.
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Can anyone seriously imagine Harvard treating any other minority the way it treated Jews over the past year and a half?
The utter disdain and complete disregard for their well-being is visible on nearly every page of this report.
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I'm not optimistic that this report will change anything.
I'd also like to mention that Harvard has recently been accused of collaborating with a CCP paramilitary organization that has actually committed genocide.
The American public’s attitudes toward both the Israeli people and government have turned more negative in the past few years.
Views of the Palestinian people, the PA and Hamas have held fairly steady, according to a new poll.
But shockingly... 👇 1/
Views of the Israeli people and Israeli government have turned more negative among both Rs and Ds in recent years.
Opinions of the Palestinian people have also diverged. Ds’ views have stayed fairly constant, while Rs’ have become more negative.
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The youngest Democrats are slightly more likely to view Hamas than the Israeli government favorably!
The opposite is true among older Democrats. However, Democrats of all ages have slightly more positive views of the Palestinian Authority than of the Israeli government.
"If I lived in Gaza, I would fight alongside the resistance."
Those are some of the messages prosecutors say Catherine Washburn sent to a man she believed was a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist in Gaza.
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Prosecutors allege she sent roughly 80 crypto payments totaling more than $30,000 to the individual, while discussing PIJ attacks, weapons, and ammunition.
She's now charged with attempting to provide material support to a U.S. designated foreign terrorist organization.
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The criminal complaint also alleges Washburn was a leader of the Direct Action Movement for Palestinian Liberation, an extremist group formed after October 7th that rejects peaceful protest in favor of "direct action," including sabotage and property destruction.
Zohran Mamdani just endorsed Darializa Avila Chevalier for Congress.
On October 8th, 2023, while Jews were still being slaughtered, raped, kidnapped, and hunted across southern Israel, she attended the "All Out For Palestine" rally in NYC.
🧵 For three years, anyone who suggested that American taxpayer money was helping fuel Israel's anti judicial reform protest movement was dismissed as a conspiracy theorist.
Today, the House Judiciary Committee released a memo alleging that a network of U.S. government funded NGOs, major philanthropic foundations, and tax exempt nonprofits collectively moved millions of dollars to organizations involved in organizing anti Netanyahu protests, supporting anti Israel activism, and in some cases funding groups accused of ties to designated terrorist organizations.
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The report claims that Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors received tens of millions of dollars from USAID and the State Department while also funding organizations connected to a broader network that supported anti government protests in Israel.
It alleges that Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Tides provided millions to groups involved in anti Israel activism, BDS campaigns, and organizations linked to groups such as Jewish Voice for Peace, Palestine Legal, Adalah Justice Project, and others.
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The committee also alleges that organizations at the center of Israel's judicial reform protests received substantial funding through American nonprofit channels.
According to the memo, Blue White Future, described as the coalition headquarters of the protest movement, received millions through organizations that themselves received funding from U.S. based nonprofits connected to federal grant recipients.
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. @RepThomasMassie went on Tucker Carlson yesterday and told his audience that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security set up its official X account in Israel using an Israeli IP address and an app purchased from the Israeli App Store, and that Congress needs to open an investigation into it.
There's just one problem. The claim is based on a screenshot that was fabricated.
The image went viral in November showing the @DHSgov page listed as based in Tel Aviv, created July 2008, connected via the Israel App Store, and it got 39 million views and hundreds of thousands of likes before anyone looked closely at it.
The screenshot didn't have the gray checkmark that X puts on every single verified government account without exception, and the person who originally posted it later appeared to admit they made the whole thing up.
X's own head of product @nikitabier came out and called it fake news directly, confirming that @DHSgov was deliberately excluded from the location feature for security reasons and never showed any location data at all.
A sitting U.S. congressman is calling for a federal investigation based on a screenshot that the person who made it appears to have admitted was fake, and Tucker just let him say it to millions of people.
Somebody built an LLM trained only on pre-1931 material when a lot of the propaganda people treat as historical fact didn't even exist yet.
So I asked it some very basic questions.
The answers are incredible. Check these out.
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Prompt:
Describe the current situation in the British Mandate of Palestine, analyze who the land should rightfully belong to, and predict what will become of the territory in the near and distant future.
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Prompt:
Was Palestine an independent country before the British occupation?