The vast majority of pro-Palestinian protesters at Harvard University went unpunished, according to a report released Thursday by the House Education and Labor Committee.
disciplinary document reviewed The committee found that of the 68 students who faced disciplinary action for their roles in the camp during the spring semester, not a single student was suspended. Harvard University protesters confused class, occupied Visited campus buildings and participated in a multi-day event encampment In response to Hamas's deadly attack on Israel on October 7th.
“Harvard has failed. The story is over,” said Virginia Fox. said In a press release. “These administrators have failed Jewish students and faculty by failing to clearly demonstrate that anti-Semitism will not be tolerated. In this case, Harvard University has failed to fulfill its legal responsibility to protect students from a hostile environment. The only thing administrators have accomplished is placating radicalized students who will almost certainly be emboldened to return to campus and prepare to repeat the chaos of the spring semester. Harvard must change course immediately.”
🚨“Harvard failed, end of story.” –@virginiafoxx
New documents from Harvard University show that administrators have overwhelmingly failed to discipline those involved in anti-Semitic activity on campus.
Read the report:https://t.co/NfMHZlZfR8
— House Education and Labor Committee (@EdWorkforceCmte) September 26, 2024
Of the 68 students who were disciplined, 52 remain in “good standing” with the university, 15 are not “on disciplinary probation” and one is on “disciplinary probation,” according to the report. He reportedly took a leave of absence from school once. The university also referred 12 students for indiscipline for their roles in two separate events: confuse On November 29th, there will be a class using chants and loudspeakers, occupied He was confined in a campus building for two days, November 16th and 17th, but was not formally punished and remains in good condition.
The university's governing board also lowered the probation of 35 students from six months to two months and allowed them to return to campus for the fall semester, according to the report. Five students who were originally scheduled to be suspended were instead given a semester of probation, even though their conduct was declared “particularly serious.”
Harvard University is facing multiple lawsuits over its handling of anti-Semitism on campus, with one lawsuit in May alleging the university was “deliberately indifferent” to the issue. . Jewish students filed a lawsuit in January, accusing the university of failing to protect them from rampant anti-Semitism by other students.
The committee launched an investigation into anti-Semitism at Harvard in December, following a hearing in which then-Harvard President Claudine Gay refused to say whether calls for genocide against Jews violated university policy. started. Gay subsequently faced severe criticism over the incident and was forced to resign. (House committee accuses elite university of 'intentionally obstructing' investigation into Jewish student assault)
“Failure to punish the anti-Semitic behavior of these students likely fails to provide a safe learning environment for Jewish students and exposes Harvard University to its responsibilities under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This would constitute a violation,” the press release states. “These documents demonstrate Harvard University's abysmal response after students were found responsible for violating university rules and regulations, as well as anti-Semitic, anti-American, anti-Semitic and This raises serious questions about the administration's tolerance for protests.”
Harvard University did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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