Harvard University professors formed a group to support Palestine

According to Fars News Agency, despite the pressure of the Zionist lobby in America on the activities of American universities in solidarity with Gaza, more than 65 employees and faculty members of the prestigious Harvard University formed a group to defend the rights of Palestinians. .

While condemning the “genocide in Gaza”, this newly formed group called on Harvard University to end its cooperation with Israel and companies that support Israeli apartheid, settler colonialism and systematic human rights violations. support against the Palestinians, end it.

They declared in a statement: “The current open genocide in Gaza cannot be separated from more than 75 years of violent dispossession of the Palestinian people, the government , the media and other institutions of knowledge production in America have been providing financial, military, moral and political support to Israel’s occupation and human rights violations in Palestine for a long time.

Harvard University staff and professors , accused the administration of this university of playing a key role in the structures of violence by investing in pro-Israel companies and monitoring and punishing students and professors for speaking critical of Israel.

In history On January 14th, following the forced resignation of the president of Harvard University due to his positions regarding the Gaza war, one of the pro-Israel professors was chosen as the interim president of this university.

Claudine Gay, the former president of Harvard University, was forced to resign after being accused of plagiarism and also criticized for what he called insufficient support for Israel. .

The Times of Israel, by Ilan Garber, who is Jewish as Harvard’s new president-elect and has previously criticized universities for not condemning Hamas enough.

Garber criticized Harvard University’s initial statement regarding the October 7 attacks in an interview with a publication in November. He also did not comment on the letter that more than 30 student groups had signed condemning Hamas.

A group of Harvard students signed a statement a few months ago saying that Israel is responsible for all the violence in Gaza.

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