The Washington Times, Valerie Richardson, November 6, 2023
More than 100 U.S. universities have issued a joint statement condemning Hamas and standing with Israel amid rising concerns about campus antisemitism, but conspicuously absent from the list were the Ivy League colleges.
Signers of “We Stand Together with Israel Against Hamas,” the open letter from Universities United Against Terrorism included the University of Notre Dame and the University of Texas at Austin, as well as numerous religious colleges and the United Negro College Fund.
“We are horrified and sickened by the brutality and inhumanity of Hamas. Murdering innocent civilians including babies and children, raping women and taking the elderly as hostages are not the actions of political disagreement but the actions of hate and terrorism,” said the recent letter signed by university presidents and chancellors addressed “Dear Colleagues.”
Those leading the hard-hitting statement included Yeshiva University, Arizona State and the University of Massachusetts. But missing were some of the nation’s most prestigious campuses, including the Ivy League members, Stanford and the University of California system.