On Monday, over 100 Harvard University faculty members signed on to a letter expressing their “profound dismay” over President Claudine Gay’s condemnation of the “pro-Palestine” slogan “from the river to the sea.”
On November 9, Gay wrote in an email that the phrase “bear[s] specific historical meanings that to a great many people imply the eradication of Jews from Israel.”
The Crimson reports the faculty letter says “from the river to the sea” has a “long and complicated history,” and that Gay’s singling out of one meaning is “imprudent as a matter of university policy and badly misjudged as an act of moral leadership.”
Apparently referencing the pro-Palestinian letter signed by over 60 Harvard student groups (which blamed Israel for the October 7 Hamas assault), the letter says “At a moment when an affiliate of the University has with apparent impunity stood in the yard and accused students of supporting […]
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