Max Krupnick in Harvard Magazine:
On Wednesday, October 11, 2023, an unusual truck circled the streets surrounding Harvard Yard, pausing outside the bakery across from Widener Library. Three video screens on its sides showed the faces and names of Harvard students. Accompanying text, in newspaper typeface, labeled them “Harvard’s Leading Antisemites.”
By now, nearly everyone is familiar with how it happened. The day after the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, Harvard’s Palestine Solidarity Committee circulated a letter holding “the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” Representatives of 33 student organizations, from overtly political groups to a South Asian dance troupe, cosigned it. And amid the angry backlash, some prominent voices called out for a particular form of retribution. Investor Bill Ackman ’88, M.B.A. ’92, posted on X that Harvard should release the names of students who belonged to the signing groups “to insure [sic] none of us inadvertently hire any of their members.” If students support the letter, he continued, their views should be “publicly known.”
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