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- worldnews@kbin.social
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.)
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.