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Widener Library at Harvard University. Photo: Joseph Williams. Student representatives of Jewish and pro-Israel groups at Harvard University said they were “deeply hurt” by a petition drive in support of outspoken academic Cornel West, who in a recent interview reiterated claims that the university’s tenure rejection was based on his criticism of Israel. “The University has granted tenure both to professors who have denounced the Jewish State and to those who have staunchly defended it. To suggest that, after all these years, the University would suddenly, inexplicably reverse course ...

ROB CHANEY As a little squad of musicians marched across Harvard Yard, the police officer next to me started to cry. “These kids, man …” he said as the six saxophone players and a drum major climbed the empty steps of Widener Library and started to play “Another One Bites the Dust.” Down below, lines of rental cars crept along the Yard’s sidewalks, ferrying away bewildered freshmen and their garbage-bagged belongings. All across the campus, sections of the Harvard Marching Band serenaded the load-out. The order to close Harvard College, and virtually ...

Widener Library at Harvard University. Photo: Joseph Williams. The head of the Harvard University Hillel strongly criticized a petition in support of prominent Harvard professor Cornel West that echoes the scholar’s claims that he was denied tenure because of his attacks on Israel and Zionism. The Harvard Crimsonreported Thursday that Rabbi Jonah C. Steinberg, the executive director of Harvard Hillel, sent an email to Hillel affiliates saying the petition promulgated “an anti-Jewish conspiracy theory” and that West had “egged students on” in promoting it. The petition — which has...

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