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More than 30 Harvard University student organizations released a joint statement saying they “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence,” after Hamas attacked Israeli citizens over the weekend. Hamas launched a surprise attack on 22 Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip on Saturday. At least 700 Israelis and 413 Palestinians have been reported killed, according to The New York Times. So far, nine Americans have also been counted among the dead. Israel’s government launched a counterattack and has declared war. Saturday’s attack on Israel by Hamas has...

A Democratic New York congressman on Monday slammed Harvard students after they penned a letter blaming Israel for attacks by the terror group Hamas. "Israel is the victim of a terrorist attack. Hamas is the perpetrator. It’s as simple as that. There are no ‘both sides,’" Rep. Ritchie Torres said in response to a letter penned by various Harvard student groups. Torres, 35, was elected to represent New York's 15 congressional district in 2020. In 2019, he called himself "the embodiment of a pro-Israel progressive" in 2019. LIVE UPDATES: AT...

More than 30 student groups at Harvard issued a joint statement over the weekend declaring that the Israeli government was “entirely responsible” for the crisis unfolding in the country and in Gaza. “Israeli violence has structured every aspect of Palestinian existence for 75 years,” wrote the groups, which included the Harvard Prison Divest Coalition, the Harvard Undergraduate Nepali Students Association, several Muslim and Arab affinity groups, and other organizations.

Yigal Carmon, a former counter-terrorism adviser to multiple Israeli prime ministers, told the Times of Israel on Monday that Hamas’s invasion into Israel and its indiscriminate killing of Jews reminded him of how Nazi mobile killing units operated. “The assault from Gaza was, rather, reminiscent of the Einsatzgruppen [mobile killing squads],” Carmon told the outlet. “That is what Hamas did on Saturday: they slaughtered families, they slaughtered young people at a party. Wherever they found Jews, they murdered them,” he added.

More than 30 Harvard University student organizations released a joint statement saying that the “Israeli regime [is] entirely responsible” for the surprise attack from Hamas that has killed hundreds of Israelis. The letter titled “Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine” was signed by 31 university clubs, including the school’s Amnesty International affiliate, Harvard Jews for Liberation and the Harvard Islamic Society.

“What the hell is wrong with Harvard?” Cruz, who attended Harvard Law School, . Stefanik, the House Republican Conference Chair, : “It is abhorrent and heinous that Harvard student groups are blaming Israel for Hamas’ barbaric terrorist attacks that have killed over 700 Israelis.” So far, the university administration has remained mum on the outpouring of criticism, which Summers contrasted with its clear support of Ukraine when Russia invaded the country. The students originally that the Hamas-led attack “did not occur in a vacuum” and that Israel was “entirely responsible...

Larry Summers, the former Treasury Secretary and Harvard University president, blasted the Ivy League school’s administration over its lack of response to dozens of student groups who blamed Israel for Hamas’ surprise attack this weekend. “In nearly 50 years of @Harvard affiliation, I have never been as disillusioned and alienated as I am today,” Summers, the former Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton who later went on to advise Barack Obama in the White House, wrote on his X social media account. “The silence from Harvard’s leadership, so far, coupled with...

A coalition of 31 student groups at Harvard University that released a statement blaming Israel for terrorist attacks against the country by Hamas doubled down on the statement within hours of issuing it. The coalition, which calls itself the Harvard Palestinian Solidarity Committee, released a statement Saturday and said that the "Israeli regime" was "entirely responsible" for the spate of terrorist attacks over the weekend by members of the terrorist group Hamas. Around 1,400 Israelis and Palestinians have been killed in the attacks. ISRAEL ORDERS 'TOTAL SIEGE' OF GAZA IN...

House GOP Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik slammed her alma mater, Harvard, after student organizations at the Ivy League university said Israel was "entirely responsible" for "unfolding violence" against the country by Iranian-backed Hamas soldiers. More than two dozen Harvard student groups blasted Israel and supported Palestinians in Gaza after Hamas launched deadly attacks across southern Israel. Stefanik called on Harvard leadership to condemn the "anti-Semitic" statements.