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The university “at last did the right thing” suspending its relationship with the Palestinian institution, a former Harvard president wrote.
“My advice to my Israeli friends is change course and do better vetting,” stated the South Carolina congressman.
“Harvard’s failure to protect students on campus from antisemitic discrimination—all while promoting divisive ideologies over free inquiry—has put its reputation in serious jeopardy,” U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon stated.
Rabbi David Wolpe, a former member of Harvard’s Antisemitism Advisory Group, said the change in leadership was “good news.”
The U.S. administration has been pushing for a new agreement to replace or strengthen the 2015 nuclear deal that Trump withdrew from during his first term.
A “misguided and fiscally irresponsible era is now over,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated.
“This is extremely concerning and painful not only to the City of New York in general, but specifically to a very close-knit community,” Eric Adams said.
Katrina Armstrong said on Friday that she stepped down after the “singular honor to lead Columbia University in this important and challenging time.”
“My position, then as now, emphatically rejects the ideology, lifestyle and behaviors which the LGBTQ term represents,” wrote one of the university’s most senior rabbis.
Reps. Tim Walberg and Burgess Owens wrote to Barnard, Bowdoin, Northwestern, Pomona and Sarah Lawrence for answers about their alleged failure to combat antisemitism on campus.
“I think it’s the same reason they gave to Jesus just before they crucified him,” former lecturer Dwayne Booth wrote on social media.
“Safeguarding higher education is a commonsense, bipartisan priority,” the Jewish Federations of North America stated.
