As a former employee of the Harvard University Libraries, I have to say something about the groups there who excused the mass murder of innocent Jewish civilians. The Reuters article says:

A coalition of 34 Harvard students organizations said they “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence” following decades of occupation, adding that “the apartheid regime is the only one to blame.”

Saying that the Israeli government is 100% to blame implies that the people who committed the slaughter are blameless. That’s an endorsement of murder.

I’m disgusted though not surprised. We’re talking about a university that booted a dean for being a defense attorney in a criminal case. Harvard should not suppress the groups making these statements — it’s already bad enough that FIRE has given it an “abysmal” rating for free speech — but it should distance itself from them in the most emphatic terms. It has failed to do this.