Harvard Defends Students’ Right to Free Speech – When It’s Anti-Israel – By Evan Poellinger (CNS News) / Oct 16, 2023
Harvard University claimed that it supports free speech after several of its student groups voiced opposition to Israel, despite the school’s notoriety as one of the most censorship-prone universities in the country.
In the wake of expressions of anti-Israeli sentiment by individual students and groups at the school, Harvard President Claudine Gray issued a statement, in which she declared “Our University embraces a commitment to free expression…that commitment extends even to views that many of us find objectionable, even outrageous.”
However, an examination of Harvard University’s existing record on freedom of expression seems to indicate otherwise.
