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Harvard, like every other major university infected with critical theory, Marxism, and wokeness, has been cultivating a pro-Hamas, anti-Israel worldview for decades.
Right after the violent Islamic terrorist group known as Hamas launched a deadly invasion of Israel, 34 student groups at Harvard released a statement.
The statement was to show solidarity with the victims of this violence and to support those suffering an unjust attack. A noble sentiment, in general, of course.
There was just one small problem with the statement.
Actually, it was a rather large one.
The Harvard student groups sided with Hamas. They showed support — for the baby-butchering terrorists.
The statement was drafted by the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee and co-signed by 33 other student groups. It was originally posted to the PSC’s Instagram page.
The statement reads, in part:
“We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.
Today’s events did not occur in a vacuum. For the last two decades, millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to live in an open-air prison. Israeli officials promise to ‘open the gates of hell,’ and the massacres in Gaza have already commenced. Palestinians in Gaza have no shelters for refuge and nowhere to escape. In the coming days, Palestinians will be forced to bear the full brunt of Israel’s violence.
The apartheid regime is the only one to blame.”
Of course, this statement is completely false. To call it double-speak would be an injustice to those who genuinely try to practice double-speak. It is gaslighting. It is historically inaccurate and morally repugnant.
As the Freedom Center explained, it was not Israel who was the aggressor here but Hamas:
“America woke up on Saturday morning to the shocking news that Israel is at war. Overnight, Hamas terrorists breached the wall between the Gaza Strip and Southern Israel and launched a massive, unprecedented attack on Israel using armed fighters, paragliders, drones, and rockets to target Israeli soldiers guarding the border and civilians, including hundreds of young people attending a music festival. Their tactics have been beyond repulsive as Hamas fighters have raped and executed young women, killed whole families in their homes, and taken women, children, and the elderly hostage.”
All war is hell. But the simple truth here is that Hamas is an evil, Islamic, Iranian-backed, militant terrorist organization that brutally attacked Israel and is unleashing barbaric violence on the Israeli people even now.
Thus, it is truly mind-blowing to see the proud hypocrisy of these Harvard students and their support for the wicked Hamas.
I guess a Harvard degree isn’t worth what it used to be.
On a positive note, the reaction to the statement was swift and severe.
The Harvard Crimson reported, “Harvard student groups drew intense campus and national backlash over the weekend for signing onto a statement that they ‘hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence’ in the wake of a deadly invasion of Israel by the Islamist militant group Hamas.”
The Crimson noted that “The statement was also denounced by federal lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, including by U.S. Rep. Ritchie J. Torres (D-N.Y.) and U.S. Rep. Elise M. Stefanik ’06 (R-N.Y.), the fourth-ranking House Republican,” and “As of Monday evening, a joint statement by Harvard affiliates condemning the attacks and PSC’s statement had amassed more than 2,100 signatures. It called the PSC’s statement ‘completely wrong and deeply offensive’ and demanded that the involved student groups retract their endorsements.”
On X, former Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers called the joint statement “morally unconscionable” and expressed his frustration with the lack of clear condemnation from current institutional leadership.
He said, “In nearly 50 years of @Harvard affiliation, I have never been as disillusioned and alienated as I am today….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.”
While it is good that Summers himself would denounce the statement, and even express frustration at the lack of moral clarity from the current leadership at Harvard, one has to ask him:
What did you expect?
The reality is that Harvard University, like every other major university now infected with critical theory, Marxism, and wokeness, has been cultivating this sort of mindset — the mindset of a pro-Hamas, anti-Israel worldview — for decades. Including under Summers’ previous leadership.
Aviva Klompas, co-founder of Boundless Israel, also called out the Palestine Solidarity Committee’s outrageous statement in very clear terms on X, saying:
“Israelis – young and old – were slaughtered in their homes. Entire families were butchered in cold blood. In one home, a terrorist shot the parents dead, took a child’s cellphone and livestreamed the horrors on the child’s Facebook account. Elsewhere, dozens of young people were massacred at a music festival. Grandmothers were snatched from their homes and taken hostage. They took mothers’ carrying babies. Hamas is currently holding over 100 hostages, most of whom are civilians. Some are babies and children.
Hamas acted with a savagery that can only be described as evil.
But these students are so steeped in hate for Israel, they are cheering on terrorists and denouncing the victims.”
What does this saga teach us? It shows the utter ideological capture of America’s institutions of higher education by the left, the radical left.
These aren’t your run-of-the-mill liberals. These are radical Marxist/Leninist leftists who view the world in a completely upside-down fashion. Up is down. Right is wrong. Good is evil. Hamas is the victim and Israel is the oppressor.
This is the rotten fruit of critical theory worked out into moral philosophy and foreign policy.
As Isaiah 5:20 teaches us,
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.”
Woe to the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee and the 33 other student groups who signed this statement. Woe to them — may they repent.
Woe to Harvard for allowing such a morally backward culture to grow and metastasize on their campus for decades now.
But this is what happens when you take Christ out of the college classroom.
You get students supporting terrorists.
And again, to Lawrence Summers — really, what did you expect?
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