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Harvard Corporation Reverses Course, Awards Degree to Rhodes Scholar and 10 Other Leaders of Anti-Israel Encampment

Asmer Asrar Safi trashes Harvard for bankrolling ‘the annihilation of Palestinians’ after receiving degree

L: Asmer Asrar Safi (Twitter) R: Anti-Israel Harvard protest in Oct. 2023 (Reuters/Brian Snyder)

Harvard University’s highest governing body, the Harvard Corporation, reversed its decision to withhold degrees from 11 students who participated in an unlawful anti-Israel encampment, including a Pakistani Rhodes Scholar now set to attend the University of Oxford next year.

Asmer Asrar Safi was among 13 graduating students whose degrees were withheld in May for their roles in the encampment. Safi, an encampment organizer and international student from Pakistan who was originally supposed to graduate two months ago, had said his new commencement date was set for May 2025. No longer.

Safi responded by trashing the value of a Harvard degree, writing in a social…

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