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In Reversal, Harvard Offers Fellowship to Advocate Critical of Israel


(Washington Post) Susan Svrluga - The Harvard Kennedy School backtracked Thursday, offering a fellowship to Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch, after he was denied a fellowship by the school's dean, Douglas Elmendorf, because of his critical views on Israel. On Thursday, Elmendorf wrote that he now believed his decision had been an error and that the school would extend a fellowship offer to Roth. Natalie L. Kahn, a senior at Harvard, wrote an opinion piece defending the dean's original veto in the Harvard Crimson last week. "Not everyone is entitled to a fellowship purely in the name of free speech," she wrote. "Our campus discourse about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be nuanced and informative. Whining about not being able to add yet another voice to the anti-Israel echo chamber will not achieve that goal."
2023-01-23 00:00:00
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