These Harvard profs want 'academic freedom' to call for Jewish genocide: report

One hundred and one faculty members at Harvard University are angry that their institution is now attempting to combat anti-Semitism. 

In an open letter posted on Medium, they frame Harvard’s new anti-Semitism task force as an assault on academic freedom. 

”The University’s commitment to intellectual freedom and open dialogue seems to be giving way to something else entirely,” the “Academic Freedom Faculty Statement” letter laments. 

Specifically, the professors take exception to the chant “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” being interpreted as anti-Semitic. 

The chant refers to the Mediterranian Sea and the Jordan River, which serve as Israel’s physical borders on its east and west. In 1948, Israel was invaded by Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon in an attempt to wipe the newly created Jewish state off the map. 

As the United States Office of the Historian documents, Palestinian Arabs who rejected the United Nations’ offer for their own state and wanted to eradicate Israel led the fighting. 

The website states: 

Fighting began with attacks by irregular bands of Palestinian Arabs attached to local units of the Arab Liberation Army composed of volunteers from Palestine and neighboring Arab countries. These groups launched their attacks against Jewish cities, settlements, and armed forces. 

On Nov. 7, Campus Reform reported that an anti-Israel protest at Massachusetts Institute of Technology included the chant “From the river to the sea” and calls for “intifada,” or a war of purification to rid the land of Israel of Jews. 

This fall semester, calls for violence against Jews appear alongside physical attacks against Jewish students. 

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The Harvard faculty letter makes no mention of pro-Hamas Havard students assaulting a Jewish student this month. Nor does it mention any other Ivy League incidents that have resulted in physical attacks against Jews in the name of academic freedom. 

Also this semester, a University of Pennsylvania student stole an Israeli flag and called the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack “glorious.” At Columbia University, a female student was attacked outside the library because she was Jewish. 

The professors signing the letter are: 

1. Walter Johnson, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
2. Kirsten Weld, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
3. Vijay Iyer, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
4. Deidre Lynch, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
5. Nikolas Bowie, Harvard Law School
6. Diane Moore, Harvard Divinity School
7. Namwali Serpell, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
8. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Harvard Kennedy School
9. Sidney Chalhoub, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
10. Christopher Hasty, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
11. Salma Abu Ayyash, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
12. Jesse B. Bump, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
13. Ryan D. Doerfler, Harvard Law School
14. Atalia Omer, Harvard Divinity School
15. Bram Wispelwey, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School
16. Sara Roy, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
17. Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
18. Neel Mukherjee, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
19. Margareta Matache, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
20. Soham Patel, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
21. John Womack, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
22. Musa Syeed, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
23. Jacinda Tran, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
24. Vincent Brown, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
25. Adhy Kim, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
26. Richard Thomas, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
27. Lara Jirmanus, Harvard Medical School
28. Altaf Saadi, Harvard Medical School
29. Hibah Osman, Harvard Medical School
30. Lisa Thompson, Harvard School of Dental Medicine
31. Khameer Kidia, Harvard Medical School
32. Mary T Bassett, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
33. Sawsan Abdulrahim, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
34. Cemal Kafadar, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
35. Lauren Kaminsky, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
36. Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School
37. Malak Rafla, Harvard Medical School
38. Bassima Abdallah, Harvard Medical School
39. Alejandra Caraballo, Harvard Law School
40. Eleanor Craig, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
41. Matylda Figlerowicz, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
42. Adam Haber, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
43. Tara K. Menon, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
44. Arunabh Ghosh, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
45. Joel Suarez, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
46. Karameh Kuemmerle, Harvard Medical School
47. Sam Marks, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
48. Rosie Bsheer, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
49. Nader Uthman, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
50. Glenda Carpio, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
51. Adaner Usmani, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
52. Paulina Alberto, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
53. Sarah Darghouth, Harvard Medical School
54. Alisa Khan, Harvard Medical School
55. Patricia Stoeck, Harvard Medical School
56. Hajirah Saeex, Harvard Medical School
57. Sherar Andalcio, Harvard Medical School
58. Diana L. Eck, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
59. Gordon Schiff, Harvard Medical School
60. Mahmoud Abu Hazeem, Harvard Medical School
61. Rania El Fekih, Harvard Medical School
62. Hicham Skali, Harvard Medical School
63. Ramona Dvorak, Harvard Medical School
64. Kamal Itani, Harvard Medical School
65. Haytham Kaafarani, Harvard Medical School
66. Ousmane Kane, Harvard Divinity School
67. David U. Himmelstein, Harvard Medical School
68. Joycelyn Ronda, Harvard Medical School
69. Christian Williams, Harvard Law School
70. Steffie Woodhandler, Harvard Medical School
71. Ju Yon Kim, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
72. M. Amin Arnaout, Harvard Medical School
73. Autumn Allen, Harvard Graduate School of Education
74. Avik Chatterjee, Harvard Medical School
75. Farhana Sharmeen, Harvard Medical School
76. Duncan Kennedy, Harvard Law School
77. Aisha James, Harvard Medical School
78. Corey Hardin, Harvard Medical School
79. Caroline Light, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
80. Karen Huang, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
81. George Aumoithe, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
82. Michelle Morse, Harvard Medical School
83. Sadeq Rahimi, Harvard Medical School
84. Sugata Bose, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
85. Lorenzo Bondioli, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
86. Michael Bronski, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
87. David Kennedy, Harvard Law School
88. Christina Villarreal, Harvard Graduate School of Education
89. Hilary Rantisi, Harvard Divinity School
90. Kassem Safa, Harvard Medical School
91. Huma Farid, Harvard Medical School
92. Bernhard Nickel, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
93. Amanda Raffoul, Harvard Medical School
94. Martha Ann Selby, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
95. Marshall Ganz, Harvard Kennedy School
96. Amir Mohareb, Harvard Medical School
97. Eman Ansari, Harvard Medical School
98. Mohamed Jarraya, Harvard Medical School
99. Liz McKenna, Harvard Kennedy School
100. Maggie Doherty, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
101. Hussein Rashid, Harvard Divinity School