‘It shames Harvard and makes you wonder what is being taught, and what is being learned, in its classrooms today,’ Middle East scholar Elliott Abrams says
A timeline of Israel’s history sitting in the center of Harvard University’s campus is riddled with factual inaccuracies, falsely accusing the Jewish state of starting the 1973 Arab-Israeli conflict, for example. One expert called it a “demonstration of ignorance” and questioned the quality of the Ivy League school’s education. Another said “pretty much everything” in the timeline is false.
The so-called art installation, “365 Days, 75 Years: A Reflection on the Ongoing Nakba,” was installed by an anti-Israel student group, the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee, and was on display Wednesday and Thursday. It included a…