Harvard has a long History of Anti-Semitism. The text below is substantially similar to a speech I gave in August of 2020 in Foster City during a forum opposing Proposition 16. Over three years later, Harvard has proven that their long history of anti-Semitism still rules their campus as practiced by their leaders.
In 1922, Harvard University’s president, A. Lawrence Lowell, proposed a quota on the number of Jews gaining admission to the university. Lowell was convinced that Harvard could only survive if most of its students came from old American stock. Lowell argued that cutting the number of Jews at Harvard to a maximum of 15% would be good for the Jews because limits would prevent further anti-Semitism. Lowell reasoned, “The anti-Semitic feeling among the students is increasing, and it grows in proportion to the increase in the number of Jews. If their number should become 40% of the student body, the race feeling would become intense.” (Jewish Virtual Library) Have you heard, “There are too many of you. You are clogging up the system.” He blamed antisemitism on the Jews and Jewish scholarship.
Jewish students, who once numbered over 20% of the students, are now at about 5% of the student population, so Harvard has effectively enforced a quota. Unfortunately, the Asians in the USA have, too, now also had an effective quota applied to them. Harvard has a long history of anti-Semitism going back over 100 years, and it has not improved. It is time for Harvard University’s leaders to take a course in morality.