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Harvard has fashioned itself as a free-speech warrior on the national stage for refusing to negotiate with the Trump administration on its sweeping demands for the university to drop its diversity, equity and inclusion measures and punish student protesters.

However, inside Harvard’s campus walls, we have seen President Alan Garber oversee a systematic erasure of teaching, research and scholarship about Palestine, at a time when more than 51,000 Palestinians have been killed, and hundreds of thousands more have been forcefully displaced and are facing starvation under a relentless Israeli siege. Long before Harvard evaded a hostile takeover from our billionaire president, it capitulated to the demands of its billionaire donors in matters of student discipline, campus speech and academic freedom.

To please its right-wing donors, Harvard adopted a one-sided conceptualisation of campus safety, in which speaking up against Israeli state violence towards Palestinians is considered threatening. As a result, university administrators rush to address anti-Semitism on campus, as they should, but they also censor and eliminate speech and scholarship which is critical of Israel in the name of fighting antisemitism. Meanwhile, anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab racism, and Islamophobia are less than an afterthought. University administrators remain silent as students, faculty and staff experience doxxing, harassment and death threats for speaking up about Palestinian human rights. They have shared international students’ information with the Department of Homeland Security, as students on nearby campuses have been abducted by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, detained and deported for objecting to Israel’s international law violations.

Beyond turning a blind eye to intimidation and abuse, the university’s leaders also routinely take action to erase Palestinian speech, scholarship, advocacy and views.

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[-] Pfeffy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You are a propagandized Zionist which is why you don't like Al Jazeera. Your question was designed to make people think something was wrong with it because they report on Israel's crimes that you support.

Edit: And now you've linked to the Wikipedia article regarding Al Jazeera controversies without selecting any because none of them help your point. You are just pissing in the conversation because you can't actually argue against the article that is the subject of discussion. These tactics are incredibly transparent.

[-] REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

Actually my distrust comes from theor reporting on eastern europe, the place I live in, and you sound completely insane, ironically

[-] finder585@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

You are a propagandized Zionist which is why you don’t like Al Jazeera.

The irony is so palpable you have to make wild unfounded accusations against him.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/how-al-jazeera-amplifies-qatars-clout

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_controversies#Alleged_pro-Qatar_bias

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