Harvard Divinity School Project Was Shut Down After Allegatio...

Harvard Divinity School Project Was Shut Down After Allegations of Antisemitism

Harvard Divinity School's new program dismantled amid antisemitism allegations.

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Is this yet another sign that Harvard is moving closer to a deal with the Trump administration? Most of the action detailed in this NBC News exclusive report goes back months prior to Trump’s reelection, but the president may have played a role in sealing its fate.

The Religion an Public Life initiative was announced back in 2020 as the first new degree program at Harvard Divinity School in 50 years. By this year it was being dismantled, an outcome that fans of the program saw as cowardice.

Since January, all three of the program’s leaders and most of its staff have left or not had their contracts renewed amid internal and external allegations of antisemitism against the program. It will continue to operate under new leadership this fall, but with vast changes.

Former faculty members of the program, speaking publicly for the first time, shed light on how the program fell apart — and what it could portend for the future of free speech on campuses nationwide.

“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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