Violet T.M. Barron
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The Professor and the Pedophile
Summers should choose the most straightforward path and resign. Should he refuse to, though, the University must cut ties with its former president to the greatest extent possible.
Do Not Applaud Harvard for Doing the Bare Minimum
Do not mistake Garber’s scramble to retain a semblance of liberalism as a stand — let alone fight — against the Trump administration. No number of strongly worded statements nor invocations of “independence” or “constitutional rights” will allow Harvard to claw its way out of the hole it has dug itself into for over a year now.
This International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Remember Gaza Too
Yesterday, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the world paid tribute to the victims and survivors of the Holocaust. It’s high time for us to remember the victims and survivors of the holocaust in Gaza too — even if Harvard wants us to forget them.
Why I Protest Hillel
For the sake of Jews at Harvard and beyond and, ever more essentially, for the rights of Palestinians here and everywhere, I will continue to protest for a land that we may all call home.
The Year I Left Israel Behind
Israel’s story is an illusory one. It cannot be told without burying another story: that of Palestine. I know this because for twenty years, I peddled it.
Dissent: When It Comes To Free Speech, the Editorial Board Is All Talk.
Because the Editorial Board calls for unattainable balance in the name of ideological diversity and censoriousness in the name of neutrality, we dissent.
Lessons of Loss
I wish it hadn’t taken me a year to write something about Jordan; I wish there wasn’t a reason to write anything in the first place. But why write at all?
Dissent: The Only People Congress Has Fooled Is the Editorial Board
Congress continues to demonstrate that they’re more interested in treating Harvard like a political punching bag than governing our country.
Dissent: With New Protest Guidelines, Free Speech Again Stops at Palestine
With their tacit support for Harvard’s new guidelines, the Editorial Board today demonstrates that their commitment to free speech is just as specious as our University’s.
Not All Jews Are Zionists. Harvard Can’t Keep Ignoring This Truth.
As Jewish Harvard students, we have been thrust into the national spotlight. We question what exactly it illuminates and the intentions of those who shine it.
Latest Media
Harvard Settles, Eight Affiliates React
After more than a year of debate about Harvard’s handling of campus antisemitism, the University has taken its most forceful steps to date. In settling two lawsuits alleging antisemitic discrimination, Harvard adopted a new definition of antisemitism, instituted anti-discrimination protections for Zionists, and pledged to form a partnership with an Israeli university. For the eight Harvard affiliates below — students and faculty, Zionist and anti-Zionist, Jewish and non-Jewish — these policy changes prompt new debates about free speech, student safety, and the proper role of the University in the face of geopolitical turmoil. — Max A. Palys ’26 and Saul I.M. Arnow '26, Editorial Chairs