[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 206 (Thursday, December 14, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5970-S5971]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                             Anti-Semitism

  Mr. President, on another matter, the events of the past 2 months 
have underscored that something is rotten in the state of America's 
most elite universities, and there aren't many more glaring examples 
than Harvard.
  Last week, of course, Harvard's president refused to say whether 
calls for Jewish genocide would constitute harassment on her campus. 
Two months ago, in the immediate aftermath of the October 7 terrorist 
attack, she declined to condemn the Harvard student groups who openly 
declared that the murder of innocent Jews that day was Israel's own 
fault.
  Under her leadership, radical ``Students for Justice in Palestine'' 
have organized to spin terrorist propaganda and mostly succeeded in 
getting Harvard graduates blackballed by major corporations and Federal 
judges.
  One Jewish student at Harvard Business School was even assaulted on 
his way to study.
  And yet despite her abysmal record on combating anti-Semitism and 
mounting allegations of plagiarism in her own scholarship, the cadre of 
leftwing financiers and university administrators who make up the 
governing Harvard Corporation has affirmed their ``confidence that 
President Gay is the right leader to help our community heal.''
  Well, when you look at Harvard's history, this embarrassing lack of 
moral clarity is hardly a surprise. A century

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ago, Harvard President Abbott Lowell proposed a numerical quota on 
Jewish students. His reasoning?

       The anti-Semitic feeling among the students is increasing, 
     and it grows in proportion to the increase in the number of 
     Jews.

  So one Harvard president says that the presence of Jews causes anti-
Semitism. A hundred years later, another says that calls for Jewish 
genocide really depend on the context in which they are made. Frankly, 
you would be forgiven for wondering whether anti-Semitism isn't just 
business as usual at Harvard.