The once considered great Harvard University has now decided the University will refrain from commenting on any issues after receiving backlash, saying Harvard “should not, however, issue official statements about public matters that do not directly affect the university’s core function.”. This is the same university of course which has 122 faculty members saying that criticizing the evil phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” is “imprudent”. And this is the same Harvard whose former president infamously refused to condemn calls for the genocide of Jews.

Following that controversy, Harvard’s new interim President Alan M. Garber and interim Provost John F. Manning announced in April the formation of the Institutional Voice Working Group. The group would decide when Harvard as a university “should speak on matters of social and political significance and who should be authorized to speak for the institution as a whole,” the Harvard Gazette reported.

“The main point of the report is that the University’s leadership can and should speak out on anything relevant to the core function of the University, which is creating an environment suitable for free, open inquiry, teaching, and research,” stated the group’s chair. He went on to say “That environment is threatened these days, and we need to defend it. At the same time, the University as an institution should not make official statements on issues outside its core function. Harvard isn’t a government. It shouldn’t have a foreign policy or a domestic policy.”

Harvard’s new decision not to take any moral stance of course comes after eleven of the twelve members of the Harvard Corporation initially stood by their former President Claudine Gay, after her disgraceful testimony before congress.

{Matzav.com}