A new Jewish alumni group says ‘a campus culture has developed in which Jews feel unsafe’
Forward, Camillo Barone, November 16, 2023
More than 2,000 Jewish alumni of Harvard have formed a new group to press for a more robust response to antisemitism on campus, with at least 240 alumni signing a pledge to donate a single dollar to the university to show their diminished willingness to support it.
“Alumni of all different backgrounds and ages and socio-economic statuses and incomes are choosing to give only $1 to Harvard to send a clear message,” said 2017 graduate Rebecca Claire Brooks, one of the group’s organizers. “The type of conduct that is being allowed to proliferate on the university campus isn’t tolerable and will not be condoned by the alumni community.”
In an statement to the Harvard Corporation, the group explains that it launched the “one dollar pledge” campaign because “a campus culture has developed in which Jews feel unsafe” and that concrete steps by the university to combat antisemitism will halt it.