Fierce backlash
By rejecting a fellowship to former Human Rights Watch (HRW) director Kenneth Roth, the dean of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government has besmirched the reputations
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By rejecting a fellowship to former Human Rights Watch (HRW) director Kenneth Roth, the dean of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government has besmirched the reputations
News that the university had blocked a fellowship for the former head of Human Rights Watch stirred debate over academic freedom and donor influence.
Kennedy School dean initially refused ex-Human Rights Watch head Kenneth Roth a fellowship over criticisms of Israel
Harvard professor Steve Walt lost out on any hope of becoming dean of the Kennedy School when he published his critique of the Israel lobby in 2006, says colleague Kathryn Sikkink.
It wasn’t rich Jewish donors who did him in, but his weaponized activism and mendacious scholarship.