Harvard rescinds fellowship offer to leading rights activist
Harvard University has rescinded a fellowship it had offered to a leading human rights activist over what he says was his group's criticism of Israel
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Harvard University has rescinded a fellowship it had offered to a leading human rights activist over what he says was his group's criticism of Israel
<p>Kenneth Roth retired from Human Rights Watch after nearly three decades, and expected to move to a fellowship at the Kennedy School. Dean Douglas Elmendorf told him his fellowship was rejected because HRW exhibited "anti-Israel bias." Is the school insufficiently independent of the American foreign policy establishment and its donors? </p>
Ken Roth, who ran Human Rights Watch for 29 years, was denied a fellowship at the Kennedy School for having the temerity to criticize Israel.
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