Harvard Hillel Calls on University to Hold Students Accountable for Threats Against Jews on Campus

Hillel International at Harvard has issued a statement calling on the Ivy League university to hold those who disrupted classes with antisemitic and genocidal chants accountable.

“On November 29th, Harvard College students had classes disrupted by a coordinated protest using bullhorns to blast abhorrent antisemitic calls to ‘globalize the intifada,’ and demands for the elimination of the Jewish state ‘from the river to the sea,’” Hillel explained in its statement.

From Harvard Hillel: Wednesday classes disrupted by students with bullhorns chanting “globalize intifada” and “river to the sea.”
Statement: “protests of this nature have become increasingly normalized on our campus.”
Urges univ to enforce–as it hasn’t done–its own rules. pic.twitter.com/GbZ8OwouRL

— KC Johnson (@kcjohnson9) December 1, 2023

“These calls for genocide and anti-Jewish violence throughout the world represent antisemitic speech and are not protected by the University’s community standards. The interruptions of classes are not protected by the University’s free speech guidelines,” the organization added.

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Supporters of Palestine gather at Harvard University to show their support for Palestinians in Gaza at a rally in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 2023. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

Harvard Hillel added, “We wholeheartedly support free speech on campus — a sacred right necessary in a free and democratic society. Yet that right does not encompass disruptions to University classes not hateful slogans chanted on University property. Harvard recognizes this distinction, and therefore rightly does not protect threatening speech or speech that is disruptive to learning on campus.”

The organization continued:

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