{"id":127884,"date":"2026-04-15T15:27:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/harvard-president-calls-students-ignorant-on-israel-palestinian-conflict-127884"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:27:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:27:50","slug":"harvard-president-calls-students-ignorant-on-israel-palestinian-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/harvard-president-calls-students-ignorant-on-israel-palestinian-conflict-127884","title":{"rendered":"Harvard president calls students \u2018ignorant\u2019 on Israel-Palestinian conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The president of Harvard says he is &#8220;disappointed&#8221; by the Ivy League student body&#8217;s ignorance and divide over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israel-Palestinian conflict<\/a>, as well as what he described as apathy toward understanding it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you\u2019re going to have strong views about an issue, I would hope that at a university you would have the curiosity to learn the facts,&#8221; Harvard President Alan M. Garber said at an event in Manhattan, The Harvard Crimson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2026\/4\/15\/garber-talk-israel-palestine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><u>reported<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The student newspaper reported that his remarks &#8220;mark a shift in emphasis for Garber, who has spent much of the past year warning about deteriorating conditions for free expression on campus.&#8221; Garber previously said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/harvard-president-criticizes-faculty-activism-claims-university-bringing-objectivity-back-classroom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvard &#8220;went wrong&#8221;<\/a> with faculty speaking out on political opinions in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/harvard-alum-praises-trump-admin-targeting-university-admissions-policies-handling-antisemitism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>HARVARD ALUM PRAISES TRUMP ADMIN TARGETING UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONS POLICIES, HANDLING OF ANTISEMITISM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Harvard Crimson reported that Garber on Monday said he believes the issue goes beyond faculty, calling some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/campus-controversy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">student attitudes<\/a> &#8220;disturbing&#8221; and &#8220;ignorant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said he was particularly concerned that some students lack a full understanding of the issue and are unwilling to engage in debate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I really felt was most disturbing as a Jewish president, but also somebody who cares personally a lot about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/foreign-policy\/middle-east\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issues that were being discussed<\/a>, is the level of ignorance among people on all sides of this issue,&#8221; Garber said.<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;The lack of knowledge and this unwillingness to have open dialogue pain me even more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/federal-probe-antisemitism-shows-faculty-legitimizing-amplifying-sentiments-campuses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>FEDERAL PROBE CLAIMS UNIVERSITIES ARE &#8216;LEGITIMIZING AND AMPLIFYING ANTISEMITISM&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harvard has faced criticism following the university\u2019s messaging regarding Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/justice-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Justice<\/a> in March <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/justice-department-sues-harvard-university-antisemitism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><u>filed a lawsuit<\/u><\/a> against the school &#8220;for race and national origin discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit alleges that the university did not protect its Jewish and Israeli students by being &#8220;deliberately indifferent to a level of hostility on its campus so well-known across the nation that members of Congress were writing about it&#8221; and refusing &#8220;to enforce its campus rules against students who harass their Jewish and Israeli peers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/stop-calling-brinkmanship-trumps-hormuz-move-real-pressure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>STOP CALLING THIS BRINKMANSHIP. TRUMP&#8217;S HORMUZ MOVE IS THE REAL PRESSURE<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Garber last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2026\/4\/9\/garber-doj-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">said<\/a> several of the claims in the lawsuit are &#8220;quite meritless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital reached out to Garber and Harvard for comment and was directed to previously reported remarks cited by The Harvard Crimson, including that &#8220;Garber has long framed his presidency as an opportunity to rebuild a robust campus discourse and healthy environment for free speech at Harvard. Just last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2026\/4\/6\/garber-ccl-forum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Garber painted<\/a> disagreement and competition between diverse viewpoints as \u2018a prerequisite for academic rigor\u2019 and central to the University\u2019s academic mission in an address at Harvard\u2019s annual Community and Campus Life Forum.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Garber took over as president in 2024. Previous Harvard president Claudine Gay resigned that year amid a plagiarism scandal and criticism of the school&#8217;s handling of antisemitism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/harvard-president-calls-students-ignorant-israel-palestinian-divide\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/harvard-president-calls-students-ignorant-israel-palestinian-divide <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of Harvard says he is &#8220;disappointed&#8221; by the Ivy League student body&#8217;s ignorance and divide over the Israel-Palestinian conflict, as well as what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-127884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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