Letter Response by Harvard and HKS to Anti-Semitic Discrimination and Bias in Marshall Ganz’s Course and on Campus

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On June 15, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf acknowledged in correspondence that the rights of three Israeli graduate HKS students, whom we represent, were violated by faculty member Marshall Ganz. Dean Elmendorf acknowledged that Professor Ganz’s conduct violated our clients’ freedom of speech and impermissibly discriminated against them as Israelis and as Jews. Admirably, the Dean pledged that Harvard would take the necessary steps to ensure that such violations do not recur.

Unfortunately, Harvard and HKS have not honored Dean Elmendorf’s promises. This failure, on top of other failures of leadership, has set the stage for the worsening climate that we have seen for Jewish Harvard students since.