He is suing his alma mater for permitting and perpetuating antisemitism on campus, a Harvard University graduate said Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention.
Shabbos Kestenbaum, a first-generation American and Orthodox Jew, told delegates from the convention stage that after Hamas’ brutal terrorist attacks Oct. 7 inside Israel, he placed 1,200 Israeli and American flags on Harvard’s campus in honor of the dead.
The flags “were all vandalized within 24 hours,” his peers harassed him for being a Jew, and he received death threats online, Kestenbaum, 25, said in Milwaukee as one of the “everyday Americans” featured each night at the GOP convention.
“Students and professors [at Harvard] have openly called for new, Hamas-style attacks against the United States,” he said.
It was “perhaps most damning,” Kestenbaum said, that Harvard…
