even the Austrians think Harvard is antisemitic

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Austrian business school cuts ties with Harvard in solidarity with Jewish students

An Austrian business school founded by billionaire Ronald Lauder has severed its partnership with Harvard University, the latest blow to the college’s prestige amid rising campus antisemitism in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israeli civilians.

The Lauder Business School said it was affiliated since 2014 with the Microeconomics of Competitiveness Affiliate Network developed by Harvard professor Michael Porter at the university’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness.

“Lauder Business School has withdrawn from this network and expresses solidarity with the Jewish student community at Harvard University in light of recent events,” said the school in a Dec. 14 post on Facebook. “Our institution is forming new partnerships that are more closely aligned with our core values and standards.”

The Simon Wiesenthal Center praised the Vienna-based school’s decision, calling it a “powerful, ethical move,” while world-renowned Rabbi Shmuley Boteach pointed to the irony of an institution in Austria, an anti-Jewish hub during the Holocaust, schooling an American icon.

“You know American universities are screwed when it’s the Austrians who have to sever ties with Harvard because of American academic antisemitism,” the rabbi wrote on X.

The school’s statement, which was flagged Tuesday by The Jerusalem Post, comes as the latest hit to the Harvard brand amid allegations of anti-Israel protests on campus seen as crossing the line into antisemitism, as well as a full-blown plagiarism scandal over the work of President Claudine Gay.

Obviously, Claudine Gay must go. And Harvard needs to recognize that it has an antisemitism problem before it begins the work of repairing the damage it's done. Then again, if we zoom back and examine the larger picture, Harvard has much more than an antisemitism problem: it's been discriminating against all sorts of high-performing students of merit, e.g. South Asians and East Asians and—lest we forget—whites. In short, Harvard has a racism problem that has festered for decades: more evidence that the left is virulently racist. But the road to redemption is a rough one, and with Harvard's financial backers apparently standing in lockstep with Gay, the only real solution is snipers and flamethrowers. Burn it all down.