The pro-Palestinian slogan, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” is anti-Semitic because it carries a specific historical connotation that evokes “pain and existential fears” among Jews, according to Harvard University President Claudine Gay.
“Antisemitism has no place at Harvard,” Ms. Gay wrote on Thursday in a letter reporting on the latest steps the Ivy League school has taken to confront “harassment and marginalization” of Jewish members of the campus community.
