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Harvard University rescinded a fellowship that it had offered to a leading human rights activist over what he said Monday was his group’s criticism of Israel.

BOSTON — Harvard University rescinded a fellowship it had offered to a leading human rights activist over what he said Monday was his group’s criticism of Israel. Kenneth Roth, who was the executive director of Human Rights Watch, or HRW, until last...

Kennedy School cancels a planned fellowship for human rights leader Kenneth Roth. Was his designation of Israel as an apartheid state to blame?

Harvard University has rescinded a fellowship it had offered to a leading human rights activist over what he says was his group's criticism of Israel. Kenneth Roth, who headed Human Rights Watch until recently, was recruited last year by the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy to become a fellow. He accepted. But a few weeks later, in July, Roth said the center called and told him that the school's dean had vetoed the fellowship. Roth believes it was due to his and his group's criticism of Israel. Over the years, the group has issued a number of rep...

BOSTON (AP) -- Harvard University rescinded a fellowship that it had offered to a leading human rights activist over what he said Monday was his group's