{"id":180879,"date":"2023-10-19T07:43:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T07:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/?p=180879"},"modified":"2023-10-19T07:43:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T07:43:02","slug":"harvard-students-hold-die-in-and-protests-in-support-of-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotworldreport.com\/world-news\/harvard-students-hold-die-in-and-protests-in-support-of-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard students hold 'die-in' and protests in SUPPORT of Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"
Harvard pro-Palestinian groups held a ‘die-in’ on Wednesday, just over a week after the deadly terrorist attack by Hamas\u00a0that killed more than 1,400 people in Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The protests come just 12 days after the attack and a letter backed by 33 Harvard student groups that blamed Israel for the attack by Hamas terrorists sparked national outrage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee and Harvard Graduate Students for Palestine organized Wednesday’s march from Harvard’s main campus in Cambridge to its business school in Boston.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the invitation, the march was organized in part due to an ‘Israeli airstrike’ on a hospital in Gaza, despite US intel clarifying that Israel was reportedly not behind the explosion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The event flyer read, ‘Protest and Die-In. Over 800 Killed by Israeli airstrike on hospital in Gaza. Demand an end to ongoing genocide.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
Videos from the event show dozens of protestors filling the streets alongside the Charles River, with many waving Palestinian flags, chanting slogans like ‘No justice, No peace’ and holding signs saying, ‘Stop the genocide in Gaza.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Harvard pro-Palestinian groups held a ‘die-in’ on Wednesday, just over a week after the deadly terrorist attack by Hamas that killed more than 1,300 people in Israel<\/p>\n
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The Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee and Harvard Graduate Students for Palestine organized a march from from Harvard’s main campus in Cambridge to its business school in Boston<\/p>\n
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According to the invitation, the march was organized in part due to an ‘ Israeli airstrike’ on a hospital in Gaza, despite US intel clarifying that Israel was reportedly not behind the explosion<\/p>\n
The crowd descended upon the Business School law, where they laid down in the grass as a group, pretending to be dead, as a form of ‘resistance.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
The video shared by the Palestine Solidarity Committee’s Instagram following the rally, shows many students dressed in Arab Shemagh Kafiya garb.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Some pro-Israel students counter-protested nearby, many offended by the lack of sympathy shown by their fellow students following the deadly terrorist attack, with many who have been personally impacted.<\/p>\n
One student from Israel, standing alone, held an Israeli flag proudly in the face of those condemning the country while they called him a ‘murderer.’<\/p>\n
Raphael Maarek said his mother and sister are currently living in a bomb shelter in Tel Aviv.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘These demonstrations are not about peace. They’re not about empathy. They’re not about solutions,’ he told WCVB. ‘They’re about erasing one people and replacing it with another.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another Israeli student said this is not political crisis, it is a humanitarian one.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘The war that Israel is conducting is against the terrorist organization, Hamas. It is not against the people of Gaza or against the Arabs or even against the Muslims,’ Yuval Efrat told the outlet.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The video shared by the Palestine Solidarity Committee’s Instagram following the rally, shows many students dressed in Arab Shemagh Kafiya garb<\/p>\n
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Videos from the event show dozens of protestors filling the streets alongside the Charles River, with many waving Palestinian flags, chanting slogans like ‘No justice, No peace’ and holding signs saying, ‘Stop the genocide in Gaza’<\/p>\n
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The crowd descended upon the Business School law, where they laid down in the grass as a group, as a form of ‘resistance’<\/p>\n
Another student from Israel told NBC10, ‘My issues are with inflammatory statements, wrong statements, not talking about facts.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘At the end of the day that’s your freedom, freedom of speech, say whatever you want, as long as it’s not wrong,’ she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Harvard has been at the center of controversy since the war began, with many major donors pulling their contributions and rescinding job offers to those who blame the Hamas attack on Israel or those who cannot simply condemn the terrorist group.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee issued a letter on October 7, co-signed by 33 other Harvard student organizations, stating: ‘We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.’<\/p>\n
The Anti-Defamation League denounced the statement as ‘anti-Semitic’ and others accused the university of tolerating hate speech.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The students leading the 33 organizations and the Solidarity Committee were named and faced calls to be blacklisted from future employment. They included the son of British businesswoman Jo Malone.<\/p>\n
Josh Willcox,\u00a022, is listed as one of three students who run the Undergraduate Palestine\u00a0Solidarity Committee, according to Harvard’s directory of student groups.<\/p>\n
Willcox is now claiming that he had nothing to do with the letter written by his organization and said he was away from campus when it was written.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n His mother – who sold her Jo Malone brand to Estee Lauder in 1999 for a sum described as ‘undisclosed millions’, and now runs her own Jo Loves brand – immediately rejected her son’s group’s statement, and described the Hamas attacks as ‘abhorrent’.<\/span><\/p>\n But it was not until Saturday, after a week of mounting anger and widespread revulsion, that Willcox insisted he was not involved in its drafting.<\/span><\/p>\n ‘In contrast to the PSC open letter, I believe that anyone who inflicts violence on civilians is solely responsible for their actions,’ he wrote on Instagram.<\/span><\/p>\n ‘I therefore do not support the letter’s attribution of blame for Saturday’s attacks to Israel.’\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Palestinian supporters gathered at Harvard University to show their support\u00a0 in Gaza at a rally in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14<\/p>\n <\/p>\n College campuses (pictured at Harvard) have become a focal point of hostilities as the nation grapples with the complex conflict in the Middle East<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pro-Israel students take part in a protest at Columbia University in New York City on October 12<\/p>\n One of America’s most prestigious law firms rescinded job offers for three students who put the blame on Israel in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n Davis Polk reversed employment offers to those the company reportedly believed led organizations at Harvard and Columbia universities that issued statements blaming Israel for the violence.<\/p>\n The firm added that it would re-evaluate the decision for two of the students, who appealed the verdict and claimed they did not authorize the letters, which were unsigned.\u00a0<\/p>\n Davis Polk, which did not identify the students, said in a statement: ‘The views expressed in certain of the statements signed by law school student organizations in recent days are in direct contravention of our firm’s value system.’<\/p>\n The company added that it will ‘continue to maintain a supportive and inclusive work environment’, and said that ‘the student leaders responsible for signing on to these statements are no longer welcome in our firm.’<\/p>\n In an interview with The New York Times\u00a0on Tuesday, Davis Polk managing partner and chair Neil Barr insisted the company does not wish to employ any supporters of the Hamas attacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n The move also reportedly spurred a large number of law students who were set to be employed by Davis Polk to reach out to the company to say that they did not support the statements, according to Davis Polk spokeswoman Katie Moss.\u00a0<\/p>\n Moss added that many of the students – from Columbia, Harvard and other prestigious universities – said they resigned from groups that appeared to support the Hamas attacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Davis Polk managing partner and chair Neil Barr (pictured) said the company rescinded job offers for three students from Harvard and Columbia as it does not wish to employ any supporters of the Hamas terrorist attacks<\/p>\n Sweetgreen boss Jonathan Neman (left) and\u00a0DoveHill Capital Management CEO Jake Wurzak (right) echoed the call<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman revealed that his fellow bosses want to know who the students are\u00a0so ‘none of us inadvertently hire any of their members’<\/p>\n An Israeli billionaire says he and his wife \u00a0are also quitting the board of Harvard University’s famous Kennedy School of Business over the school’s president’s response to the surprise Hamas attacks in Israel.<\/p>\n Idan Ofer is the founder of Eastern Pacific Shipping reportedly worth over $14 billion, according to Forbes. His wife Batia is an art collector and the descendant of Holocaust survivors.<\/p>\n Batia Ofer told the Hebrew-language outlet TheMarker that she and her husband are both quitting the school’s executive board over President Claudine Gay’s response to 31 Harvard organizations signing a letter placed the blame on Israel for Hamas’ brutal attacks.<\/p>\n Now those, Hamas supporting students are begging the school for mental health services after feeling bullied for their refusal to condemn the terror group.\u00a0<\/p>\n Harvard’s Arab Alumni Association has appealed for donations to help students’ mental health after they were subjected to ‘relentless bullying and intimidation’ for blaming Israel for the Hamas terror attacks.<\/p>\n
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