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The Crimson Editorial Contradicts Every Important Harvard, Journalistic and Human Value

(Harvard Crimson) Ira E. Stoll - How are Israeli students, or Jewish students, supposed to feel valued and included when the Crimson is calling for a boycott of the Jewish state - literally, advocating exclusion in the form of unlawful discrimination on the basis of religion and national origin. The Crimson's position is so extreme it is almost laughably obsolete. Just months after diplomats from Israel's Arab neighbors such as the UAE, Morocco, Egypt and Bahrain showed up in Israel to deepen trade, security and people-to-people ties, the Crimson wants to revert to the bad old days of Arab rejectionism. Nowadays, the Crimson is propped up by annual giving from alumni. We may ask ourselves why we'd volunteer to fund an organization participating in a campaign to wipe the Jewish state off the map and to rid Harvard of any Israelis. The writer was president of the Crimson in 1993.
2022-05-04 00:00:00
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