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To: carranza2 who wrote (202378)	10/31/2023 9:27:05 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 217574

Harvard Lecturer Who Discriminated Against Jewish Students Faces No Disciplinary Action Marshall Ganz told Jewish students the words 'Jews' and 'democracy' cannot be applied to Israel and organized a 'Palestinian solidarity' discussion during class Professor Marshall Ganz, Harvard Kennedy School (Twitter/@TrungTPhan) Adam Kredo October 30, 2023 A Harvard University professor who subjected Jewish students to "anti-Israel and anti-Semitic" discrimination has not faced any sanctions or disciplinary action more than four months after his actions were brought to light, according to an advocacy group that is threatening legal action against the school. FreeBeacon 'Nothing Is Left': Hamas Says Evidence That Israel Struck Hospital Is Conveniently 'Vaporized' READ MORE Marshall Ganz, a senior lecturer at the college’s Kennedy School, who told a group of Jewish students that the words "Jews" and "democracy" cannot be applied to Israel and organized a "Palestinian solidarity" discussion during class, has yet to face discipline from Harvard’s leadership. Harvard launched an independent inquiry into the incident—detailed in a complaint published by the Louis. D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law—and found he had "subjected the students to anti-Israel and anti-Semitic bias and discrimination on the basis of their identities as Jewish Israelis." The Brandeis Center is threatening legal action against the Ivy League school, alleging it is sweeping a previously undisclosed instance of anti-Semitic bias under the rug as Jewish students on campus face a barrage of hate. Harvard has seen a massive spike in anti-Semitic incidents in the wake of Hamas’s unprecedented October 7 slaughter of more than 1,400 Israelis, with the school generating frontpage headlines for hosting pro-Palestinian rallies that have included backing for Hamas and allegations Israel is to blame for the terror attack. Harvard's leadership has come under fire for failing to denounce such anti-Israel activity, with alumni slamming the school for "dangerous anti-Semitism." Jewish students on campus have been marginalized as a result, with fears mounting that the campus is no longer safe for Israel’s supporters. While the latest incident took place earlier this year, when Ganz allegedly discriminated against several Jewish-Israeli students in his class, the Brandeis Center argues that Harvard’s effort to keep the matter quiet indicates the school’s leadership is not interested in addressing anti-Semitism on campus. "This failure, on top of other failures of leadership, have set the stage for the worsening climate that we have seen for Jewish Harvard students since [Oct. 7]," the watchdog group wrote. "Harvard’s failure to speak out against anti-Semitism masked as anti-Zionism has only emboldened the student groups who are now celebrating Hamas’ atrocities. The silence needs to end." According to the complaint, Ganz pressured three Jewish-Israeli students in his class to abandon a project examining "Israel’s liberal and Jewish democracy," arguing that the words "Jewish" and "democracy" cannot be applied to Israel. Professor Ganz dismissed their project as "illegitimate," and "demanded they change it, and subjected them to anti-Israel and anti-Semitic bias and discrimination when they refused," according to the Brandeis Center, which represents students in cases where their civil rights have been violated. Ganz, the complaint alleges, went on to say the phrase "‘creates an unsafe space’ and compared their use of the words ‘Jewish State’ to a student trying to characterize America as a country led by ‘white supremacy.’" The professor allegedly threatened "consequences" for the students if they moved forward with the project and repeatedly pressured them to eradicate all mention of a "Jewish democracy." These efforts, which took place over several months earlier this year, are "blatantly anti-Semitic, demeaning the Israeli students both as Israelis and as Jews, and denying the Jewish people’s right to self-determination," according to the complaint, which was originally filed in late March and not made public until today. The students moved forward with their original project plan, prompting Ganz to organize a "Palestinian solidarity" discussion on the final day of class. "Being fully aware that the topic would generate strong anti-Israel sentiment in the class, Professor Ganz directed two of the [teaching fellows] to teach a lesson on how to recruit support for Palestinians that included blaming Israelis for the Palestinians’ plight," the complaint alleges. Harvard launched an independent third-party probe into the matter, which determined that Ganz "silenced the speech of the Jewish Israeli students about a topic he viewed as illegitimate, treated the students differently and denigrated them on the basis of their Israeli national origin and Jewish ethnicity and ancestry, and prioritized others’ concerns over the Israeli students." Four months later, Harvard has not taken any punitive action against Ganz, who was recently celebrated by the school’s Harvard Gazette as a civil rights pioneer. "Harvard leadership has allowed its campus to run amuck with anti-Semitism for far too long," Kenneth Marcus, the Brandeis Center’s founder and chairman, said in a statement. "This outrageous, irresponsible, and illegal failure of Harvard’s administration to address even undisputed anti-Semitism has paved the way for the problems they are now facing."

To: carranza2 who wrote (202378)	10/31/2023 11:18:24 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 217574

To: carranza2 who wrote (202378)	11/1/2023 6:35:28 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217574

Re <<You’re paying a lot for an indoctrination!>> ... yes, but the 'money' is coming out of inflation of gold relative to 'deflation' of indoctrination Re <<The Ivies are discriminating against admitting very qualified Jewish kids>> ... and against Asian American (read Chinese-American kids), am told If I tell you about the coming SAT testing reform ... well, let me tell you, that different kids, from different high schools, shall be taking exams on the computer, but featuring different questions, difficulty-adjusted to specific high school, to level the playing field - all very scientific and big data driven Re <<Coconut is sufficiently independent-minded>> ... counting her blessing that she had acted at the get-go of the school year to discontinue her stint at the daily news, and only tagging with the humour magazine. It is getting impossible to be a journalist at the daily news am guessing.

To: carranza2 who wrote (202378)	11/2/2023 7:50:15 PM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Recommended By Pogeu Mahone Respond to of 217574

following the matter, the letter is spot-on ... As educators at institutions of higher learning, it is imperative that you provide your students with the tools and guidance to engage in the free exchange of ideas, even on emotionally charged issues, in a manner that affirms the values we all hold dear and rejects unreservedly that which is antithetical to those values. There is no room for anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism or any other form of violence, hatred or bigotry on your campuses, in our workplaces or our communities. bloomberg.com Harvard, Yale Warned by Top Law Firms About Antisemitism - Law firms tell schools to take stance against anti-Jewish acts - Letter comes amid rise in antisemitism on college campuses 3 November 2023 at 06:20 GMT+8 More than two dozen top US law firms sent a letter to more than 100 law school deans telling them to take an “unequivocal stance” against antisemitic harassment on their campuses. The letter, which was signed by firms including Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and Wachtell Lipton Rosen and Katz LLP, comes after some law students saw their job offers rescinded for comments made about Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack that killed 1,400 Israelis. Israel’s retaliatory bombing of Gaza, which is controlled by Hamas, has fueled protests across the country. Antisemitic incidents have soared since the war began, and the conflict has bitterly divided dozens of campuses, including Harvard University, Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania. Presidents at Harvard, Penn and Columbia University have announced task forces on antisemitism. At Cornell University, a series of antisemitic incidents culminated in a junior engineering student being charged with making online death threats to Jewish students. A swastika was found drawn in Columbia’s International Affairs building, and videos have circulated of what appears to be Harvard students harassing a Jewish student during an anti-Israel protest. “Anti-Semitic activities would not be tolerated at any of our firms. We also would not tolerate outside groups engaging in acts of harassment and threats of violence, as has also been occurring on many of your campuses,” the law firms’ letter said. Read the letter here. [scroll down] The letter was written this week by Joseph C. Shenker, senior chair of Sullivan & Cromwell, after he was contacted by Jewish law students from top universities. He circulated the draft to the other firms, each of which sent a copy to the law schools they work with on Wednesday night, Shenker said in an interview. Eli Shmidman, center, speaks during a press conference at Columbia University on Oct. 30. Shmidman, a student at Columbia Law School, has said he has been the victim of an antisemitic attack on campus.Photographer: y Luiz C. Ribeiro/NY Daily News/Getty ImageWhen asked if the firms would curtail recruiting from schools where they have seen concerning behavior, Shenker said, “People can draw their own conclusions. The letter speaks for itself.” “We’re asking the deans to create a safe environment for all their students where one is treated with respect,” he said. “That’s what we require at our firms. I believe the deans are working towards that.” Antisemitic incidents including assaults, harassment and vandalism soared 400% across the US since Oct. 7, with 54 incidents reported on campuses, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The group tallied 110 anti-Israel rallies on campuses in that period, with 27 including expressions of support for terrorism. Hours after the attack by Hamas, which is deemed a terrorist organization by the US and European Union, more than 30 student groups at Harvard placed the responsibility for the violence on Israel. It took criticism from Harvard’s former president, Larry Summers, before the school’s leadership denounced the attack and said the students didn’t speak for them. At New York University, the student bar association president also laid blame on Israel in a post to law students. Law firm Winston & Strawn rescinded an employment offer to that student, who was previously a summer associate, after learning of the “inflammatory” comments. Davis Polk & Wardwell also rescinded job offers to three law students at Harvard and Columbia after organizations they were part of made controversial statements about the Hamas attack. “As employers who recruit from each of your law schools, we look to you to ensure your students who hope to join our firms after graduation are prepared to be an active part of workplace communities that have zero tolerance policies for any form of discrimination or harassment, much less the kind that has been taking place on some law school campuses,” the law firms’ letter said. Yvette Ostolaza, chair of the management committee at Sidley Austin LLP, said she was grateful that Shenker took the lead in making sure the legal industry was unified in their statement to law schools. “It’s important during times when you see evil happening and it affects your colleagues and your clients to speak up and stand for what’s right,” she said. President Joe Biden this week announced measures to “counter the alarming uptick” in antisemitism in schools and college campuses, including having the Department of Education expedite its update of the intake process for complaints under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to state that certain forms of discrimination against Jews are against the law. A spokesman for Harvard Law School declined to comment and Yale Law School didn’t respond to requests for comment. — With assistance by Katie Roof, Amanda L Gordon, and Meghan Tribe November 1st 2023 Dear Deans, Everyone at our law firms is entitled to be treated with respect and be free of any conduct that targets their identity and is offensive, hostile, intimidating or inconsistent with their personal dignity and rights. We prohibit any form of harassment, whether verbal, visual or physical. Over the last several weeks, we have been alarmed at reports of anti-Semitic harassment, vandalism and assaults on college campuses, including rallies calling for the death of Jews and the elimination of the State of Israel. Such anti-Semitic activities would not be tolerated at any of our firms. We also would not tolerate outside groups engaging in acts of harassment and threats of violence, as has also been occurring on many of your campuses. As educators at institutions of higher learning, it is imperative that you provide your students with the tools and guidance to engage in the free exchange of ideas, even on emotionally charged issues, in a manner that affirms the values we all hold dear and rejects unreservedly that which is antithetical to those values. There is no room for anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism or any other form of violence, hatred or bigotry on your campuses, in our workplaces or our communities. As employers who recruit from each of your law schools, we look to you to ensure your students who hope to join our firms after graduation are prepared to be an active part of workplace communities that have zero tolerance policies for any form of discrimination or harassment, much less the kind that has been taking place on some law school campuses. We trust you will take the same unequivocal stance against such activities as we do, and we look forward to a respectful dialogue with you to understand how you are addressing with urgency this serious situation at your law schools. Very truly yours, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Cooley LLP Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Dechert LLP Dentons US LLP DLA Piper LLP (US) Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Goodwin Procter LLP Greenberg Traurig, LLP Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Latham & Watkins LLP Lowenstein Sandler LLP Mayer Brown LLP McDermott Will & Emery LLP Milbank LLP Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP O'Melveny & Myers LLP Paul Hastings LLP Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Proskauer Rose LLP Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan UK LLP Ropes & Gray LLP Schulte Roth + Zabel LLP Shearman & Sterling LLP Sidley Austin LLP Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, and Katz Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP White & Case LLP Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP