It was all the way back in January of 2024 that Harvard President Alan M. Garber announced a presidential task force on antisemitism and Islamophobia. Yesterday, more than a year later, those two reports were finally released.
This comes at a somewhat inconvenient time for Harvard which has taken the lead among US universities in objecting to the demands of the Trump administration. But the conclusions of the antisemitism report in particular seems to confirm that there as a serious problem at Harvard, one which warranted the attention that was given to it by Republicans in Congress and later by the Trump administration.
The full report on antisemitism is over 300-pages-long but I’m going to pull out some of the highlights, which are really lowlights for the school. From the executive summary here’s a description of how anti-Israel activism became toxic on…
