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Anti-Israel Installation Riddled With Falsehoods Stands in Harvard Yard

‘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

Anti-Israel Harvard protest in Oct. 2023 (Reuters/Brian Snyder)

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…

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