The Anti-Defamation League gave Harvard University and 12 other schools failing grades for policies to protect Jewish students from antisemitism on campus.
The ADL said it selected 85 of the top national and liberal arts colleges for assessment this year and chose those with the highest Jewish student populations. It assigned grades from A through F in a Campus Antisemitism Report Card released Thursday.
“ADL produced this Report Card during a time of incredible volatility on college campuses,” the organization said on its website. “It takes the temperature at a moment in time and provides a roadmap for improving campus climate.”
Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University and the University of Virginia were among the schools to receive a letter grade of “F.”
Since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, numerous incidents of antisemitism have been reported at U.S. schools, with some resulting in arrests.
In November, the Education Department announced an investigation into a half-dozen colleges and universities and a local school district for alleged antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents. It opened a separate probe into Harvard after a complaint alleged the Ivy League school discriminated against Jewish and Israeli students when it failed to respond to alleged incidents of harassment, The Boston Globe reported.
In December, Harvard President Claudine Gay and two other elite university presidents testified before the House Education Committee about campus antisemitism. Gay drew heated criticism for appearing to sidestep the issue during her testimony, and she announced her resignation in January.
A spokesperson for Harvard said: “Antisemitism has no place in the Harvard community. We remain steadfast in our commitment to combating antisemitism and hate, in whatever form it manifests itself.”
In March, the Ivy League shared its ongoing efforts to combat antisemitism with the House Education and Workforce Committee. Over the last…
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