'Withholding Roth's participation in a human rights program due to his own staunch critiques of human rights abuses by governments worldwide raises serious questions about the credibility of the Harvard program itself,' penamerica said.
that he and Kennedy School Dean Douglas Elmendorf"had a perfectly pleasant chat for about half an hour or so, but toward the end he asked the question, 'Do you have any enemies?' And I said: 'I've got many. That's a hazard of the trade.'"
"But what he was clearly driving at was Israel," said Roth, who is Jewish."He didn't want to hear about how I've been sanctioned by China, sanctioned by Russia, or attacked by Rwanda or Saudi Arabia. He wanted to know: what was my position on Israel?" ;“Harvard @Kennedy_School Dean Douglas Elmendorf doesn't seem to understand that it is NOT academic freedom when Israel is exempt from criticism. He shouldn't be soliciting donors to an academic institution who think otherwise. https://t.co/ZNEphF01Jh;”Roth believes Elmendorf bowed to pressure from staunchly Zionist donors to the Kennedy School and withdrew his fellowship offer.
"I falsely assumed that the dean of the Kennedy School values academic freedom," he said."Maybe I'm naïve in retrospect, but I assume that criticism of Israel, as criticism of any other government, is just par for the course. That's what a leading foreign policy center does.
;“�� PEN America expressed dismay today over the Harvard @Kennedy_School of Government;’s decision to deny a planned fellowship for former @hrw Executive Director Ken Roth, reportedly due to Roth;’s criticisms of Israel;’s human rights record. https://t.co/P4IExzJzSy;”"There is no suggestion that Roth's criticisms of Israel are in any way based on racial or religious animus," the group added.
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