Harvard University’s president spoke out Tuesday amid national backlash over a student group’s statement that condemned Israel amid it’s ongoing conflict with Hamas, emphasizing the group does not speak for the entire school.
“Such inhumanity is abhorrent, whatever one’s individual views of the origins of longstanding conflicts in the region,” Harvard University President Claudine Gay wrote in a statement, referring to the ongoing strikes.
“Let me also state, on this matter as on others, that while our students have the right to speak for themselves, no student group — not even 30 students groups — speaks for Harvard University or its leadership,” she added.
Gay said there should be no doubt that she condemns the “terrorist atrocities perpetrated by Hamas.”
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Her comments come three days after the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee published a statement that they “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence,” in the wake of Hamas’s multi-pronged attack on Israel.
The letter, co-signed by 33 other Harvard student organizations, immediately came under fire from school alumni and even U.S. lawmakers.
Why is it that people who attend such prestigious universities always turn out to be so unimaginably dim-witted.
It’s the same with Oxford and Cambridge in the UK. Some of the people who attended those places, I honestly wouldn’t trust to tie their own shoelaces.
Sure they can quote Beowulf in the original Norse, but when it comes to critical thinking and common sense, they’re not so much scraping the bottom of the barrel as underneath it.
At least they can quote Beowulf. I have no idea what the rich shits who went to Ivies can do except look good in a suit, go on Fox news, drink cocktails, embezzle pension funds, and lie.