Reports
A Narrowing Gate: Jewish Enrollment at Harvard and its Peers | 1967-2025
This report documents a significant and anomalous decline in Jewish undergraduate enrollment at Harvard over the past two decades.
The headline finding is straightforward: Jewish enrollment at Harvard stands at approximately 7 percent today, the lowest recorded since before World War II, roughly half what it was a decade ago, and the lowest of any Ivy League institution with reliable data. Three independent instruments converge on this finding: the Harvard Crimson Freshman Survey series, the 2016 Brandeis CMJS stratified random sample, and Hillel International.
The Soil Beneath the Encampments: How Israel and Jews Became the Focus of Hate at Harvard
Over the 2023-2024 school year, our committee of volunteers, educators, and researchers explored if and how Harvard’s education might be fueling the hatred we were witnessing. We prepared this report to help repair, restore, and strengthen our beloved alma mater.
What we found reveals the ways Harvard’s education systemically planted and spread the seeds of hatred for Israel and Jews well before October 7th, 2023.
Jewish and Israeli students face ostracism and harassment not only from peers but also from faculty and teaching staff. Our report shows – in students’ own words – a pervasive anti-Israel, anti-Jewish environment on campus. We dove into the schools, departments and centers, course catalogs, faculty, events, and speakers.