Just ahead of commencement next Thursday, Harvard University officials came to an agreement with its encamped keffiyeh mafia, negotiating the end to the small tent city in Harvard Yard.

According to this, Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine (HOOP) successfully negotiated the reinstatement of at least 22 students from involuntary leave for their participation.

As if we didn’t see this coming.

For 60 students and student workers facing disciplinary procedures, the university has agreed to expedite their cases ‘in line with precedents of leniency for similar actions in the past'”.-HOOP

Interim President, Alan Garber, in the place of Claudine-I-Like-To-Plagiarize-All-Day-Gay, had this to say:

Now that the area is being cleared and in line with the conversation I had with students last week, I will facilitate a meeting with the chair of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility and other University officials to address questions about the endowment. And, in keeping with my commitment to ongoing and reasoned dialogue, the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and I will meet with students to hear their perspectives on academic matters related to longstanding conflicts in the Middle East.” -Alan Garber

This ought to be fun. Harvard is one of the richest universities in The United States, with a $49.5 billion endowment. Now, the administration is not only giving the little Hamas groupies a small slap on the wrist by reinstatement and leniency, they’re going to teach them about the endowment. They may just get their center for “Palestinian Studies” after all.

In looking at this, it could be as simple as summer vacation starting for these little darlings and they are burnt out on the whole camping on the lawn thing. Who wants to camp out in a tent when you don’t have an audience snd can summer in The Vineyard with Mommy and Daddy?

Seems like a pretty sweet deal to me. Camp out in Harvard Yard for three weeks to then be told that the administration will reinstate you as soon as possible. And not only will they reinstate you for acting like a petulant punk, they will appease you by holding meetings and “negotiations”.

There should be nothing of the sort for these young adults.

Inside the Harvard Square subway station as I headed home from campus a few days ago, I watched a group of pro-Palestinian protesters while waiting for my train. One actually held a sign with the single word ‘Hamas.’

I yelled out, in response, ‘Let Israel live.’ A young man who seemed to be a leader of the demonstration looked at me and laughed. I felt insulted by his dismissive reaction, and watching the spectacle, I found myself thinking back to my own years as a Harvard undergraduate in the late 1960s.”-Steve Kelman

Mr. Kelman is currently a Harvard Professor and attended Harvard in the late ’60s. He originally wrote this article featured in Forward, an independent Jewish publication, that was to be featured in The Harvard Crimson-until the “editor” pulled the piece, calling his accounts “questionably factual”. Oh, silly, wannabe journalists! Don’t you worry, readers. They will go on to get their J.D.s and work for a major news network (pick any of ’em) someday.

Back then, too, I watched as nonviolent protests against the Vietnam War gradually morphed into extremism.

…in 1970, the year I graduated, a group of Weather Underground radicals accidentally blew up a Greenwich Village townhouse with one of several bombs they intended to place that evening — including one at Columbia University, and one at a U.S. Army facility. That fall, when I was studying in Sweden on a Fulbright scholarship, I watched from afar as the student radicals divided into two factions — one more culturally radical, engaged in drugs and a sexual revolution; the other somewhat puritan — that literally shouted at each other in Harvard Yard, each waving Mao’s Little Red Book of slogans.”-Steve Kelman

This. From a Harvard professor. This “questionably factual” insight.

I am not sure whether the most accurate way to describe Hamas is as violent left-wing revolutionaries or retrograde religious fanatics, but neither is a model today’s students should admire. This is not just a group that the United States and European Union consider to be a terror organization; it’s one that has executed people in Gaza for being gay, that subjugates women, and that committed egregious acts of sexual violence against them during the Oct. 7 attack.

Decent people should recoil from Hamas in disgust.”-Steve Kelman

Instead, the Harvard administration cowers with weakness and embraces them. They did not arrest these Hamas groupies who proudly waved the name of an organization who subjugates women, kills LGBTQ+ people (some in that tribe here actually think they support them which is a joke) and has perpetuates violence time and time again. They reward and offer leniency to these darlings. The good news is Harvard Yard will be free of those unsightly tent encampments before commencement. The bad news? They’ll be back.

They all should have been arrested. Expelled. This is not going to end here. Harvard administration officials are empowering them to do this and more in the future.

Encampments are a tactic — a big and beautiful one — in a larger strategy of divestment. Here at Harvard, we believe the utility of this tactic has passed, and we have decided to re-group and carry out this protracted struggle through other means.
We are under no illusions: we do not believe these meetings are divestment wins. These side-deals are intended to pacify us away from full disclosure & divestment.”-HOOP

Read between the lines: This is not over. A big and “beautiful” (gag) tactic of a “protected struggle”. They wouldn’t know a struggle if it smacked them between the damn eyeballs. But still, they have voiced their true opinions on the Harvard administration and think they are kissing their elitist asses. They are not wrong. The administration is, in fact, empowering the Keffiyeh Klan to do more n the future. What will those “other means” look like for this “protracted struggle”? Stay tuned.

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