Tag: university
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Scientist cited in push to oust Harvard’s Claudine Gay has links to eugenicists
A data scientist promoted by the rightwing activist Christopher Rufo, the Manhattan Institute thinktank, and other conservatives as an expert critic of the former Harvard president Claudine Gay has co-authored several papers in collaboration with a network of scholars who have been broadly criticized as eugenicists, or scientific racists. Rufo described Jonatan Pallesen as “a…
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Six Jewish students file federal lawsuit against Harvard, calling it ‘a bastion’ of ‘anti-Jewish hatred’
Several graduate and law students at Harvard University filed a federal lawsuit against the Ivy League school this week, accusing the administration of failing to protect Jewish students from antisemitic harassment on campus during the Israel-Hamas war Israeli Zionist genocide. The 79-page civil complaint, filed Wednesday in US District Court in Boston, alleges that antisemitism at…
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Crackdown on Palestine in education goes far beyond universities
In November, two teachers at the Citizens of the World Charter School in Los Angeles were suspended and subjected to an investigation after they made social media posts about giving lessons to first graders on the genocide in Palestine. “LOL but I did a lesson on the genocide in Palestine today [with] my first graders,’”…
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Harvard President Claudine Gay Announces She Will Resign
In her statement to the university community, Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, wrote that “it has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor ― two bedrock values that are fundamental to who I am ― and frightening to be subjected to personal attacks and threats…