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Hussein How a Harvard initiative studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict collapsed
“Nobody came to our defense,” said Hussein Rashid, the program’s former assistant dean, who resigned from his post in January and left at the end of June. “Our students were fantastic — our administrators were cowards.”
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The next day, Rashid sent his own scathing resignation letter, accusing Harvard of failing to intervene on behalf of the program against what he viewed as months of defamatory attacks.
“My program was being attacked using extremely Islamophobic, anti-Arab language, and the school refused to respond, saying that they couldn’t get into an intra-Harvard fight,” he said.