Jewish Harvard alumni are reportedly planning an audit of courses offered at the university to root out what they believe is causing anti-Semitism to fester in the Ivy League.
Documents viewed by The Boston Globe Members of the Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance are launching an effort to intervene with university leaders who they say administrators have let hate fester undeterred.
The alumni group was established after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, which caused anti-Israel protesters to descend on the Harvard campus and forced former president Claudine Gay to resign from office after disastrous testimony before Congress that did not condemned university anti-Semitism.
The Harvard Jewish Alliance of Alumni held a meeting with the university’s interim president, Alan Garber, last month, requesting to “launch a transparent investigation… to review and revise the goals and practices” of the diversity offices, Harvard Equity and Inclusion.
‘[W]”We were very, very clear about how frustrated our group was and the wide range of emotions, from anger to disappointment,” the group’s president, Eric Fleiss, said in a WhatsApp channel seen by the Globe.
Members of the Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance are reportedly launching an effort to intervene with university leaders who they say have let anti-Semitism grow undeterred.
The alumni group was established after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, which caused anti-Israel protesters to flock to the Harvard campus.
The Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance held a meeting with the university’s interim president, Alan Garber, last month to request ‘[l]launch a transparent investigation’
“We think it’s fair to say that they clearly recognize that they have a problem and that it is part of or related to the broader issue on campus of free speech and institutional neutrality.”
The group wants Harvard’