Palestinian freedom. West, 67, a philosophy professor in the Divinity School who has gotten wide faculty and graduate-student support, made the allegation to scholar Tricia Rose on the Tight Rope podcast two weeks ago. He said that “donors” and “elite” administrators at the school were his enemies for a number of reasons but especially on Palestine. West also attributed the denial to Jews “in high places” but qualified that charge to say that anti-Palestinian prejudice is widespread in the elite regardless of ethnicity. CORNEL WEST WITH TRICIA ROSE ON TIGHT ROPE PODCAST, FEB. 23, 2021. SCREENSHOT. The New York Times has now covered the West story and left the Palestinian angle to the last couple of paragraphs, making the controversy entirely about the representation of black scholars at Harvard and other universities.