Harvard University, which has embroiled itself in controversy with 122 faculty members saying that criticizing the deadly phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” is “imprudent” and a former president who refused to condemn anti-Semitic protests and calls for the genocide of Jews, has now decided the university “should not, however, issue official statements about public matters that do not directly affect the university’s core function.”
In April, interim President Alan M. Garber and interim Provost John F. Manning announced the formation of the Institutional Voice Working Group to decide when Harvard as a university “should speak on matters of social and political significance and who should be authorized to speak for the institution as a whole,” the Harvard Gazette reported.
The group was co-chaired by Noah Feldman, the Felix Frankfurter Professor…
