With the resignation of rector Claudine Gay, the problems have not ended Harvard. Known and criticized for having downplayed the hymns to the genocide of the Jews that were staged on her campus during her hearing at the US Congress, the 53-year-old was forced to step back for plagiarism. Discrimination and attacks against Jews are almost commonplace, so much so that some students are forced to sue the university. But theantisemitism It is also expensive in economic terms.
Harvard received 54,008 applications, about 5 percent fewer than last year. It’s about the fewer applications received since 2020, the year of the explosion of the Covid pandemic. And as highlighted by the New York Times, this is not a generalized decline, because the other universities are clearly growing: Yale University and Dartmouth College received 10 percent more applications. Columbia, which declined an invitation to testify before Congress along with the presidents of Harvard, UPenn and MIT, also saw a 5 percent increase.
The climate of tension inside Harvard it is palpable. The group Students for Justice in Palestine published the controversial letter in which it blames Israel for the terrorist plot of Palestinian extremists. A letter that sparked the anger of many students, so much so that it pushed several financiers to withdraw the generous checks worth millions of dollars. The situation does not seem destined to change: Jewish students still have to deal with it today threats and intimidation. Many of them seem intent on leaving the campus due to possible retaliation from pro-Palestine groups, some of which are pro-Hamas.
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An emblematic case is that of Shabbos Kestenbaum. The 25-year-old decided to take Harvard to court for anti-Semitism. “From 7 October onwards the Jewish exception became increasingly evident. A double standard that manages and condemns actions that threaten or insult almost every group imaginable, except Jews,” the student testified. After Hamas’ attack on the Jewish state, inside the university where John Fitzgerald Kennedy graduated, more and more lonesome people started shouting to destroy Israel and kill all the Jews who live there. Including Kestenbaum’s family.
You don’t need great analysts to understand the decline in enrollment at Harvard. It’s hard not to share the concerns of students and their parents: spending thousands of dollars to find yourself in the anti-Israel den doesn’t benefit anyone.
Massimo Balsamo, 1 April 2024
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