The school administration has remained mum amid an outpouring of criticism over the position of student organizations on the attacks by Hamas.

Some of Harvard University’s most prominent political alumni are criticizing the school for not condemning a student-led statement that blamed Israel for the surprise Hamas attack over the weekend.

“The silence from Harvard’s leadership, so far, coupled with a vocal and widely reported student groups’ statement blaming Israel solely, has allowed Harvard to appear at best neutral towards acts of terror against the Jewish state of Israel,” Lawrence Summers, a former Harvard president and longtime Washington economic policy hand, wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

Summers, a Democrat who served as Treasury secretary under Bill Clinton, added: “I am sickened. I cannot fathom the Administration’s failure to disassociate the University and condemn this statement.”

In their comments, prominent figures who studied at the university — many of them Republicans — blasted the school for not standing up for Israel. The story made the rounds on Sunday and Monday across a plethora of mostly conservative news sites, picking up the attention of Washington figures like Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.)

  • PhlubbaDubba
    7·
    11 months ago

    A is pretty egregious but,

    B) the Iron Dome can be overwhelmed by just shooting more rockets into it until there’s too many, something it seems Iran was more than happy to help Hamas arrange.

    C) the deserts outside Gaza actually are a popular concert venue for the music scenes on both sides of the border. Gazan artists actually prefer doing concerts out there because of the lowered risk Hamas goons will be able to drag them off stage for stoning if they say something the cretins don’t like.

    • Alteon@lemmy.world
      31·
      11 months ago

      Thank you for your response. This is the first time someone has actually taken the time to explain it.

      “A” by itself is already questionable. The rest I can understand. Iran supporting Hamas is pretty bad.

    • Madison420@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 months ago

      Agreed.

      Sure, it doesn’t seem to have been overwhelmed though, from the videos and photos it just looks gimped.

      https://youtu.be/yJ7asbdsMyI?si=h-Iqa10mnGTjEhLp

      Compared to https://youtu.be/dNgx3o_WKxI?si=PtmvEB220LVutjzs ≈30sec

      As for the concert thing, sure it totally is but it’s still not smart especially when gazan Palestinians routinely get shot by rubber bullets for making too much noise close to the walls. They say because “they’re likely planning something” but fuck off most of them are kids.