On October 8, 2023, an Israeli American professor expressed solidarity with Jewish and Israeli students at a vigil for Hamas attack victims. As a member of a task force against antisemitism, he emphasizes professionalism in academia, rejecting leniency for students involved in campus activism. Amidst declining public trust in higher education, he argues that these institutions require support to uphold fact-based discourse vital for addressing societal challenges. The professor condemns political attacks against universities, asserting that academic integrity must remain separate from political considerations.
I am a member of Harvard's Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias. I have written numerous blog posts and opinion articles on this matter.
An assignment about Boolean circuits is clearly less important than combating campus antisemitism, let alone the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. But the value I want to encourage is professionalism.
As recently as a decade ago, the majority of Republicans had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in higher education, according to a Gallup poll.
Nothing justifies the unwarranted attacks by the Trump administration on universities as a whole, and on my own institution in particular.
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