When Playboy Had More Moral Clarity Than Harvard

<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW150818508 BCX4"> <p><em><span data-contrast="none">The same day</span></em> <span data-contrast="none">that Hamas militants</span> <a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/08/world/middleeast/timeline-gaza-israel-attacks-hamas.html"> <span data-contrast="none">murdered thousands</span></a> <span data-contrast="none">of innocent men, women, and children, over 30 Harvard University student groups signed a</span> <a href= "https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/10/11/dual-statements-criticize-psc/"> <span data-contrast="none">statement of solidarity</span></a> <span data-contrast="none">… not with the victims, but with the</span> <em><span data-contrast="none">militants.</span></em> <span data-contrast="none">“We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence … [T]he apartheid regime is the only one to blame,” they</span> <a href= "https://nypost.com/2023/10/09/thirty-one-harvard-organizations-blame-israel-for-hamas-attack/"> <span data-contrast="none">wrote. </span></a><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":0,"335559740":480}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">Harvard’s administration was deafeningly silent</span> <a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/us/harvard-israel-gaza-hamas-reaction.html"> <em><span data-contrast="none">for days</span></em></a><em><span data-contrast="none">.</span></em> <span data-contrast="none">Only after</span> <a href= "https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/10/11/dual-statements-criticize-psc/"> <span data-contrast="none">500 faculty and over 3,000 university affiliates</span></a> <span data-contrast="none">condemned the statement did leadership issue a “</span><a href= "https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/10/10/harvard-statement-criticized/"><span data-contrast="none">tepid” response</span></a><span data-contrast="none">, which it has since attempted to clarify. </span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":0,"3