Call from inside the house: Harvard, knee deep in a funding fight with the Trump administration, released a long-awaited report from its task force on anti-Semitism on Tuesday. The report is aligned with the administration “in its diagnosis of pervasive campus anti-Semitism,” the Washington Free Beacon‘s Collin Anderson writes. It is less aligned when it comes to the prescriptions.
The administration, for example, has called for external parties to conduct audits on viewpoint diversity, admissions, and program offerings, especially those within the education school, the school of public health, the medical school, and the divinity school. The Harvard report also singles out those four schools for driving anti-Semitism, but recommends the development of a “set of rules and expectations” governing class instruction.
The report also details an array of startling anti-Semitic incidents at Harvard. Multiple Jewish students reported being “routinely asked to clarify that they were ‘one of the good ones’ by denouncing the State of Israel and renouncing any attachment to it.” Another said that the organizers of a Harvard conference objected to a speech that detailed “how their grandfather survived the Holocaust” by fleeing to British Mandate Palestine because it was not “tasteful” and “inherently one-sided.”
“The report’s release corresponded with a message from Garber, who said he was ‘sorry for the moments when we failed to meet the high expectations we rightfully set for our community,'” Anderson writes. “He also said the deans of each Harvard school would present ‘by the end of this term action plans’ to implement the report’s recommendations.”
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Let off the hook: Last spring, police arrested UCLA activists holed up in one of the nation’s nastiest encampments. Recall that Jewish students were barred from accessing parts of campus.
Los Angeles’s city attorney recently released charging decisions for those arrested, and none of the encampment participants are included.
In its statement announcing the decisions, the city attorney’s office suggested that it had hoped to charge more of them but hit a brick wall thanks to UCLA’s “failure or inability to assist in identification or other information needed for prosecution.”
“The development comes as UCLA continues to argue that it didn’t have a responsibility to stop the encampment from excluding Jews from parts of campus,” writes our Jessica Costescu. “The University of California system is also facing a Justice Department investigation into whether it ‘has engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination based on race, religion and national origin against its professors, staff and other employees by allowing an Antisemitic hostile work environment to exist on its campuses.'”
READ MORE: Prosecutors Decline To Charge Hundreds of UCLA Encampment Arrestees, Citing School’s Failure To Assist Investigation
Away from the Beacon:
- Sign of the times: Kamala Harris “is rumored to be attending the Met Gala,” according to Puck News, a revelation that for whatever reason suggests “that she might be running for governor of California.”
- Speaking of California, Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Tuesday “first-in-the-nation government efficiency efforts,” because everyone knows California is a leader in government efficiency.
- The liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee judge arrested for obstructing the federal government’s attempt to arrest an illegal immigrant.
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