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Ordinarily, it would be a blessed relief to see college administrators take a stand for free speech. They should be consistent, though, rather than arriving at the opinion that expressive liberty on campuses is important only when students demonstrate to support terrorists killing Jews.
At universities nationwide, left-wing and ethnic groups have shown up in force to shout that the real victims in the Middle East are Palestinians, not the Israelis killed, women raped, and babies beheaded by Hamas terrorists. More than a few demonstrators chanted slogans to the depraved effect that the Israeli civilians deserved their fates.
First-year Harvard President Claudine Gay said emphatically, “Our university rejects terrorism. That includes the barbaric atrocities perpetrated by Hamas.” That statement came only after days of being hounded into it by former Harvard leaders, and even then, Gay did not actually condemn the 31 student groups that wrote that they “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.
That is not true. For years, Harvard has failed spectacularly to abide by the free-speech principles Gay claims it upholds. A month ago, for example, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression released its annual College Free Speech Rankings and rated Harvard the worst of 254 colleges in the country, earning the first “zero” grade FIRE has ever given.
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