Harvard Is in Turmoil, Accused of ‘Losing Moral Compass,’ as Students, Big Donors, and Administrators Clash Over Student Groups’ Support for Hamas, President’s Equivocations

Harvard’s Kennedy School, long pilloried for liberal bias, is losing some of its biggest donors amid the contretemps.

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Widener Library on the Harvard campus at Cambridge, Massachusetts. William B. Plowman/Getty Images

Twelve days since members of Hamas murdered more than 1,000 Israelis, Harvard is in a full-blown crisis over student support for the terrorist attack and the university president’s repeated failure to issue a full-throated condemnation of the slaughter.

Top benefactors are pulling their support, Jewish students are denouncing their school, and, as one Harvard student put it, “a crisis of conviction” has consumed the campus amid Harvard’s fall from moral grace.

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