11/16/2024
This is huge! Hopefully other Universities & Colleges will follow suit. ๐๐พ๐๐พ๐๐พ๐๐พ๐๐พ
As Harvard University workshops its image in the wake of criticisms over its handling of antisemitism on its Boston campus, the Ivy League college has suspended a group of students for staging a pro-Palestine โpray-inโ last week in the Harvard Divinity Schoolโs library.
During the event, reported on by The Harvard Crimson, the schoolโs student-run newspaper, more than 55 graduate students demanded Harvard โdivest from Israelโs war in Gaza and end censorship on campus.โ
The protest seemingly centered on calls from left-leaning students who have condemned the Harvard Management Company (HMC), the entity responsible for managing the schoolโs endowment, for alleged investments in organizations with ties to Israel.
In March of this year, the Harvard Law Schoolโs Student Council voted 12-4 (with three abstentions) to pass a resolution calling on the HMC to โdivest completely from weapons manufacturers, firms, academic programs, corporations, and all other institutionsโ that purportedly benefit Israel in some way.
Two members of the student government resigned following the vote. When they resigned, the pair said they left the board because they โstrongly disagree with the resolution.โ
Last Monday, the group of students staged a โpray-inโ that lasted about 45 minutes before it was broken up and participants were suspended for violating a university-wide policy intended โto prevent students from feeling unsafe or distracted in spaces like libraries and classrooms.โ
Read more: https://cbn.com/news/us/harvard-suspends-pro-palestine-students-who-stage-pray-protest-library-0