Antisemitism at Harvard is thriving.
Calls to globalize the Intifada on campus. Harvard Rabbi slandered. Holocaust denial in Harvard Yard.
The response: Silence.
We’re still waiting for “Harvard to have our back, but to no avail, said R’ Zarchi.
Claudine Gay, the Pres. of Harvard currently under fire for her remarks last week, lit the Menorah and left without a word of support. More than 500 Harvard faculty signed a letter supporting Gay despite global calls for her firing.
Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi of Harvard Chabad full remarks below.
Before lighting candles for the 7th night of #Hanukkah, Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi of @HarvardChabad shared a story about how he has to hide the menorah on campus each night out of fear from the university of criminal activity. “We in the Jewish community are longing for a day…that… pic.twitter.com/C35weuzqBA
— ICC (@israelcc) December 14, 2023
If, according to Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi of @HarvardChabad, @Harvard admits that it can't protect a Jewish religious symbol from being vandalized by students on campus, how is any Jew supposed to believe that they are safe from harm there? pic.twitter.com/q5CUONaSTR
— Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) December 14, 2023
Leave the menorah. Let it be vandalized. Let the world see how Harvard’ s Jewish students experience life on campus. This needs to come out.