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An Israeli student who attended the postgraduate school in Harvard took care of the hostility due to his religious identity and disagreed with a teacher who compared the idea of the Jewish state with the “white supremacy.”
Matan Yafffe is a founder of an organization that helped the Muslim population Beduina in Israel and arrived in Harvard to be able to win the skills to promote his mission as Tikkun Olam or “heal the world.” It did not happen long after his arrival to begin the discomfort.
“Very soon the first day, there were already indications that something was unpleasant,” Matan Yaffe told Fox News Digital.
Yaffe, 40, accepted a scholarship to attend the Kennedy Government School of Harvard in June 2022. Having founded Desert Stars, a non -governmental organization (NGO) that provides educational and employment opportunities to the Beduina community of Israel. I was excited to attend The Ivy League school To get skills, I could apply at home.
Yaffe, an IDF officer, said that his first Harvard impressions were positive, but when he entered the “Kennedy School Organization: People, Power, Change”, Professor Marshall Ganz, immediately realized that his identity Israelí would become an issue.
Harvard resolves two demands that deal with accusations of anti -Semitism
Matan Yafffe reveals the anti -Semitism he experienced in Harvard. (Water wives)
A Yaffe is prohibited from discussing Professor Ganz by name according to the terms of a Harvard agreement has just arrived With the Brandeis center, which represented the five -year -old father along with other Israeli and Jewish students, but Ganz is appointed in the demand.
Yaffe decided to partner with two other Israelis in a project entitled “Organization of a growing majority of Israelis who act in harmony based on a shared spirit of Israel, as a liberal Jewish democracy is a cultural, economic and security lighthouse.”
The teacher summoned the Israelis to their office And he informed that his project was “offensive” and were told that they needed to change issues or face “consequences,” said Yaffe. Ganz supposedly felt that the phrase “Jewish democracy” was in question and compared the concept of “white supremacy.”
Yaffe founded an NGO in Israel to help the Beduina community. (Water wives)
Yaffe was horrified that his project, or homeland, could be compared to white supremacy, especially because he expected his research to help him return to the world of NGOs to help Israeli society be more inclusive.
“48% of the world’s nations are defined by religion or ethnicity, including all Muslim states,” Yaffe said in the tense meeting. “I asked if he ever forced a student to change topics before, and he said no. Everything was strange,” he said Fox News Digital.
The meeting concluded with Yaffe telling the teacher that his behavior was anti -Semitic.
The businessman said that he and his Israeli classmates were subjected to a teacher’s silencing campaign. When a classmate offered harsh criticism of his homeland, they asked to respond.
“You have already done enough damage,” the teacher replied. Yafffe asked the teacher if he would prefer if the three Israeli students left their course, Ganz supposedly said he would.
Cambridge, MA – May 10: Harvard University Police walks near a Pro -Palestine Camp in Harvard Yard. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe through Getty Images)
Despite the apparent antagonism of the teacher towards Israeli students, Yaffe and his project classmates tried to encourage dialogue with their classmates with respect to their country of origin. The three Israeli students invited their classmates to a dinner where they could freely discuss any problem that they had about Israel or their project. While not all students attended, Yaffe said dinner was fine.
Yaffe and his Israeli classmates persisted in their choice of the project, but they were denied the opportunity to present themselves in front of the class, the only students denied the opportunity to do so. Ultimately, Israeli students received grades that they considered unfairly lower than their average.
“Harvard is the top of the academic world, you would think it would be a very safe place to share your ideas,” Yafee told Fox News Digital.
While Yaffe felt that being an older student with experience in life in the army and the business world helped protect him from what could have been a very traumatic experience, he felt forced to fight what happened, so that A younger and younger student would never be to endure what he did.
“I am relatively a lucky guy, I have many anchors in my life. I have children, a wife, a state that I love. What would happen if I did not have all these anchors, if I had 20- The one-year-old Jewish boy who grew up in the United States It does not have the identity of Israel as a spine, and suddenly I was alarmed.
Harvard University is one of several institutions that face anti -Semitism on campus. (Joseph Prezios/AFP through Getty Images)
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An independent researcher concluded that Harvard Kennedy school created a “hostile learning environment” for Israeli students. Harvard accepted the conclusions of the finding.
Harvard settled with the Branden Center on Tuesday. As part of the agreement, the University agreed to adopt the definition of anti -Semitism of the International Association of Historical Memory.
“This is a very strong settlement and a great victory. Not only will it have a great impact on Harvard University and the stature of the university, but it will have a great influence on all American higher education,” said the founder and president of Brandeis Center Ken Marcus A Fox Digital News.
Fox News Digital contacted Harvard and Professor Ganz to comment, but did not receive an answer immediately.
