Pro-Palestine Protest Chickens Come Home to Roost at Harvard

Dr. Munr Kazmir
3 min readMay 25, 2024

Harvard Corporation Rejects FAS Effort to Let 13 Pro-Palestine Student Protestors Graduate,” reported the Harvard Crimson.

Free Palestine demonstration at Union Station. (Photo: Joe Flood)

“The Harvard Corporation rejected an effort by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to confer degrees on 13 seniors facing disciplinary charges for participating in the pro-Palestine encampment, an unprecedented veto that opens a new front in the internal battles that have convulsed Harvard for the past year,” revealed the Harvard Crimson.

“Today, we have voted to confer 1,539 degrees to Harvard College students in good standing,” said the Harvard Corporation in a statement. “Because the students included as the result of Monday’s amendment are not in good standing, we cannot responsibly vote to award them degrees at this time.”

Harvard student protestors may be facing disciplinary action, as are students at other universities. Out-of-control on-campus protests have been especially problematic at Columbia.

Pro-Palestinian protests sweep US college campuses following mass arrests at Columbia,” reported Nick Perry, Dave Collins, and Michelle Price for the Associated Press earlier this month.

“Columbia canceled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at New York University and Yale, and the gates to Harvard…

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