10 May 2025, 8 Iyar, 5785.
Contents:
1. Harvard Shame by BARUCH COHEN.
2. International Law and Lies about Israel by Nitsana Darshan-Leitner,
3. Almost half of Gaza Palestinians willing to ask Israel to help them leave -poll.
4. Attacks on Jews in Judea and Samaria.
5. French Lawmakers Propose Posthumous Promotion for Alfred Dreyfus in Symbolic Act of Justice
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1. Harvard Shame.
by
BARUCH COHEN
https://www.quora.com/
Extracts Only:
Harvard has published its report on anti-Semitism at the university. It's 300 pages long and it's horrifying.
- A Jewish student was told he couldn't tell the story of saving his grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, because he helped Jews get to British Mandate Palestine. And it was "tasteless."
- Many Jewish and/or Israeli students were asked to denounce Israel in order to be counted as "good." If they didn't, their presence was offensive. This was done by both students and faculty.
- Jewish students on academic visits were told that their "Jewish tradition had become indistinguishable from the settler-colonialist project."
- In their college applications, students at elite American universities wrote that "Israel deserved this" and raved about the images of the October 7 massacre.
- Some students posted images with the caption "Decolonization is not a metaphor" with blood dripping from text marked as Jewish blood. Other posts regularly used terms like "Israeli scum" and "Zionist scum"
- The worst of it was for Israeli students, who had to literally miss lectures and seminars for which they paid exorbitant amounts of money because of the attacks on them.
- Harvard's Office of Student Affairs condemned a Jewish student who deleted posts from Harvard groups (as an administrator of some of them) praising Hamas, as well as conspiracy theories (such as posts of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion")
- At an event at Harvard Law School for families of hostages, Harvard decided to move Jewish students away for safety reasons, while protesters (pro-Palestinian) roamed freely around.
- Some Israeli students are now suffering from panic because they, who lived through the Second Intifada, heard daily calls on campus for a "Globalization of the Intifada."
- At an event at the Center for Middle East Studies at Harvard Divinity School, the events of October 7 were described as an attack on "Israeli Jewish settlements" - to dehumanize the victims and sweep the massacre of civilians under the rug. (On the day of the report's publication, the school issued a statement that the genocide began not on October 7, but 100 years ago by the Zionists.)
- The "Palestinian program" at Harvard's T. H. Chan School of Public Health portrayed Israel as a state that exists solely to oppress Palestinians.
When Jewish students expressed concern, they were asked, "Who is more oppressed - the Jews or the Palestinians?"
- In a university-wide survey, about 59% of the 2,300 students, faculty, and staff surveyed said they were afraid to express their views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because of possible academic or professional repercussions.
The statistics from Jewish students are especially shocking.
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The publication of the reports coincided with increased pressure from the Trump administration, which froze $2.2 billion in federal funding to Harvard, accusing the university of failing to combat anti-Semitism. In response, Harvard sued the federal government, arguing that the interference violated academic freedom and the autonomy of the institution.
And the cherry on top!
It turned out that Harvard had been training representatives of the Chinese paramilitary structure SPSC - an organization responsible for repression, forced labor, and persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. SPSC has been under US sanctions since 2020.
The training took place in 2019 and even in 2023, as part of a partnership funded by a family of Hong Kong billionaires. In total, In 2012, Harvard received more than $1.1 billion from foreign donors, much of it from China.
Here's the report -
FINAL REPORT
https://www.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/FINAL-Harvard-ASAIB-Report-4.29.25.pdf
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2. International Law and Lies about Israel by Nitsana Darshan-Leitner,
SHAMRAK Report: International Law and Lies about Israel * Regime Change will Bring Peace.
Extracts:
International Law and Lies about Israel
by Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, President of Shurat HaDin - Israel Law Center
They say Israel is violating International Law. They accuse us of genocide, land theft, and starving civilians. None of these claims are valid under International Law. Allow me to break down 5 of the biggest legal lies being spread right now and what the law actually says. Here is what they don't tell you:
Lie #1 - Israel Seizing Land in Gaza Is a War Crime
Under International Law including the laws of armed conflict it is not illegal for a state to seize or occupy territory during a war if it's done in self-defence. Israel did not invade Gaza out of aggression. It responded to an unprovoked massacre by Hamas on October 7. Also, Gaza is not a sovereign state and there is no land theft under International Law when there is no recognized sovereignty. (Gaza, Judea and Samaria were designated to the Jewish state, Eretz-Israel, by the League of Nations.)
Lie #2 - Israel Blocks Red Cross from Visiting Hamas Prisoners is a War Crime
Prisoner of war status applies only to uniformed combatants fighting on behalf of a state and following the laws of war.
Lie #3 - Israel is Committing Genocide
Israel has no intent to destroy the Palestinian people, only to destroy Hamas, a terror organisation that brutally governs Gaza. I
Lie # 4 - Israel is Using Starvation as a Weapon
Israel through COGAT has facilitated hundreds of aid trucks daily and according to data from international agencies the minimum caloric threshold is being met. The real issue is that Hamas hijacked this aid and attacks the crossings.
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3. Almost half of Gaza Palestinians willing to ask Israel to help them leave - poll
https://www.timesofisrael.com/almost-half-of-gaza-palestinians-willing-to-ask-israel-to-help-them-leave-poll/
Almost half of Gazans may be willing to apply to Israel to help them leave to other countries, according to a survey released Tuesday
Israeli ministers have made little secret of their wish to see a large part of Gaza's 2.3 million residents moved out of the enclave, in line with the plan announced by US President Donald Trump in February to take control of the Strip and rebuild it as a coastal resort. Asked about Trump's plan, 56% of Gazans said they would be unwilling to emigrate after the war, and 43% said they would.
Asked if Hamas's decision to launch the onslaught had been a correct one, 37% of Gazans said yes, 58% said no, and 5% said they didn't know.
The PCPSR survey also found that 48% of Palestinians in Gaza supported the series of anti-Hamas demonstrations that began in various places around the enclave in March. The figure was just 14% in the West Bank, whose Palestinian Authority is dominated by Hamas's secularist rival Fatah.
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4. Attacks on Jews in Judea and Samaria.
Palestinian terrorist groups targeted Israeli Jews in Judea and Samaria at least 6,343 times in 2024, including 179 instances of gunfire.
By JNS
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5. French Lawmakers Propose Posthumous Promotion for Alfred Dreyfus in Symbolic Act of Justice
https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/05/06/french-lawmakers-propose-posthumous-promotion-for-alfred-dreyfus-in-symbolic-act-of-justice/
Extracts:
A group of French lawmakers on Tuesday put forward a proposal to promote Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army captain wrongly convicted of espionage in the late 19th century, to the rank of brigadier general, more than a century after his death.
Former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who is leading the initiative, said the law would 'constitute an act of reparation, a recognition of [Dreyfus's] merits, and a tribute to his republican commitment,' in an effort to rectify the wrongful conviction, which unfolded amid widespread antisemitism across the country at the time.
'Five years of exile and humiliation irreparably harmed his military career,' Attal said. 'It is undeniable that, had it not been for this injustice, Alfred Dreyfus would have naturally ascended to the highest ranks.'
According to Attal, the proposed legislation would also signal that the fight against antisemitism remains urgent, as France has seen a rise in antisemitic hate crimes following the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas's invasion of and massacre across southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, amid the ensuing war in Gaza.
In 1894, Dreyfus, a 36-year-old army captain from the Alsace region in northeastern France, was accused of leaking secret information to a German military official and was put on trial amid a fierce antisemitic media campaign.
Despite the lack of evidence, Dreyfus was convicted of treason based on a handwriting comparison with a document found in a German official's wastepaper basket in Paris, sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island in French Guiana, and stripped of his military rank.
Years later, French Lieutenant Colonel Georges Picquart, then head of military intelligence, secretly reopened the case and uncovered that the handwriting on the incriminating document belonged to another officer. But when he brought this evidence to the army's general staff, Picquart was dismissed from his post and imprisoned for a year.
In 1899, Dreyfus was brought back to France for a second trial, where he was again found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in prison, before ultimately receiving a pardon - though the charges against him were not formally overturned.
It was seven years later, in 1906, when Dreyfus was officially exonerated after the French High Court of Appeal overturned the original verdict and reinstated him with the rank of major.
He lived until 1935, dying at the age of 76....
The report also found that 65.2 percent of antisemitic acts last year targeted individuals, with more than 10 percent of these offenses involving physical violence.
One such incident occurred in June, when a 12-year-old Jewish girl was raped by three Muslim boys in a Paris suburb. The child told investigators that the assailants called her a 'dirty Jew' and hurled other antisemitic comments at her during the attack.