Here is the problem in a nutshell. Most Democrat voters don't realize that leftist idealogues have hijacked the Democrat party, actively pushing traditional Democrat politicians out. They don't yet understand that the Democrat party they knew doesn't exist anymore. Almost all of the major news organizations work together to lie to Democrat voters and feed them misinformation constantly. Corrupted government entities like the FBI and the DOJ, and the leftists running all social media, have worked together to censor and silence any dissenting voices. The goal is to create a false reality in the eyes of Democrat voters and shield them from the truth. This is vital to ensure their continued support on Election Day.
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The Harvard Scandal is Bigger Than Claudine Gay
With new examples of her plagiarism coming to light almost every day now, Harvard president Claudine Gay surely ought to resign in the best interests of the university she has so poorly led.
In one sense, Gay has become a distraction, which is exactly the sort of cliché one might expect a scandal-ridden leader like her to deploy if she calls it quits.
In another, though, L’affaire Gay is not a distraction. It has cast a light on the conduct of her bosses, the school’s board of directors, known as the Harvard Corporation, and shown them to be as high-handed, corrupt, and brittle as she is. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. (That’s Shakespeare. Do they still study him at Harvard?)
The 11 men and women of the Harvard Corporation are titans of business, academia, and law: the American elite. They include Penny Pritzker, the billionaire hotel heiress and former Obama secretary of commerce, and the former presidents of Princeton University, Shirley Tilghman, and Amherst College, Biddy Martin. Ken Chenault, the former CEO and chairman of American Express, Tino Cuéllar, the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Ted Wells, the chairman of the litigation department of Paul Weiss, are also part of the crew.
The group learned about the accusations of plagiarism against Gay on Oct. 24 through an inquiry from the New York Post. They responded by hiring the "leading defamation firm in the United States," which repped noted defamation victims like the NBC News pervert Matt Lauer and Putin crony Oleg Deripaska, to threaten and intimidate the Post. (It worked.)
In a Kafkaesque move, the corporation then circumvented the university’s well-established procedures for investigating academic misconduct and appointed an "independent" panel of scholars to review Gay’s work. They will not disclose the members of that panel, which—surprise!—found "no violation of Harvard’s standards for research misconduct." This wasn’t plagiarism, a capital offense in academia, but "duplicative language without appropriate attribution," which sounds an awful lot like plagiarism to those of us who didn’t go to Harvard.
That "independent review" did not consider all of Gay’s work. Given her thin academic record, it would not have been a heavy lift. When new plagiarism allegations emerged on Dec. 10 and Dec. 19, the corporation waived them off. In a statement to the Chronicle of Higher Education on Wednesday, the corporation indicated that a subcommittee of 4 of its 11 members determined that "no further action is required." So long, secret "independent" review board!
The fish rots from the head. After they inevitably drop the hammer on Gay, the members of the Harvard Corporation should see themselves out too.
Harvard: Pro-Palestinian Disruptions Occurred for ‘Years’ Before October 7
Pro-Palestinian activists regularly disrupted important university ceremonies for “years” at Harvard before the antisemitic outbursts that followed the Hamas terror attack in Israel on October 7, according to media reports at the university.
The latest edition of the Harvard alumni magazine, which devotes an article to the divisions on campus over the war, noted that “it was not unprecedented that during breaks between speaker’s at this year’s convocation, on September 4, organized groups broke in with cheers advocating Palestinian rights.”
Those “cheers,” an earlier edition of the magazine noted, had interrupted the speech of the minister of Memorial Church, who had “invoked the Native peoples and unnamed enslaved people who had, respectively, owned the land on which the University was built.” (Harvard was a cradle of the abolitionist movement.)
The Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper, had noted in September: “As has been the case in recent years, the ceremony — which was hosted in Tercentenary Theatre — was punctuated by shouts of protest by members of the Harvard College Palestine Solidarity Committee, who also held banners during the ceremony.”
These protests took place during a time of growing peace in the Middle East between Israel and neighboring Arab states. The university appears to have done little to discipline the pro-Palestinian students for their repeated disruptions of events.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
For enough money, the ivies are so open-minded their brains fell out
"At least 100 American colleges and universities illegally withheld information on approximately $13 billion in undocumented contributions from foreign governments, many of which are authoritarian.... Speech intolerance—manifesting as campaigns to investigate, censor, demote, suspend, or terminate speakers and scholars—was higher at institutions that received undocumented money from foreign regimes." — ISGAP report, "The Corruption of the American Mind," November 2023.
Qatar makes it possible for Ivy League universities to claim that they receive no funds from the Qatari state, because the donations are funneled through the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, a not-for-profit organization established in 1995 by the Emir of Qatar. This ensures that the foundation can identify itself as a private organization, which enables Qatar to conceal its state funding as private donations.
"At the time of writing, the State of Qatar contributes more funds to universities in the United States than any other country in the world, and raw donation totals omit critical, concerning details about the nature of Qatar's academic funding." — ISGAP report, "Networks of Hate," December 2023.
"We would pay them [journalists]... Some of them have become MPs now. Others have become patriots.... We would pay [journalists] in many countries. We would pay them every year. Some of them received salaries. All the Arab countries were doing this. If not all, then most of them." — Former Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim, February 2022.
Harvard Itself Unearthed New Case of Plagiarism Not Included In Previous Allegations—After Threatening To Sue New York Post Alleging Allegations Were ‘Demonstrably False’
Claudine Gay, the university’s president, lifted language from a 1981 article without using quotation marks.
Harvard University’s review of the plagiarism allegations against its president, Claudine Gay, unearthed a new case of what the university called "inadequate citation" that was not included in any of the documents sent to the school, raising fresh questions about the scope of her misconduct amid a steady drip of damaging revelations.
The new example comes from Gay’s dissertation, where she quoted a 1981 article by Richard Shingles, "Black Consciousness and Political Participation: The Missing Link," without proper attribution, Harvard told the Chronicle of Higher Education on Wednesday.
But Shingles, now an emeritus professor at Virginia Tech, was never named in the allegations Harvard received—either from an anonymous whistleblower on Tuesday or from the New York Post in late October.
Harvard elided that novelty in its statement to the Chronicle, listing the new example alongside previously reported ones as if it had already been flagged for the school. Harvard did not respond to a request to comment.
The new example, for which Gay has requested a correction, underscores just how long the list of 40-plus allegations has grown and the possibility that it could grow longer still. It also highlights the weaselly way in which Harvard has sought to downplay the charges, using mealy-mouthed terms like "duplicative language" or, in the case of Shingles’s paper, camouflaging the results of its own probe.
Though Harvard said Gay would add a citation to page 76 of Shingles’s article, it did not specify which passage she had lifted or what made her attribution "inadequate." But the Washington Free Beacon has identified what appears to be the passage in question.
Shingles, Richard D. "Black Consciousness and Political Participation: The Missing Link." The American Political Science Review, vol. 75, no. 1, 1981, pp. 76:
"Starting with the work of Gurin and Gamson, this article theorizes that black consciousness contributes to political mistrust and a sense of internal political efficacy which in turn encourages policy-related participation."
Gay, Claudine. Taking Charge: Black Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Politics. Dissertation submitted to the Department of Government, Harvard University, 1997, p. 12:
"Race consciousness, Shingles (1981) had argued, contributed to political mistrust and a sense of internal political efficacy which in turn encouraged policy-related participation."
Gay cites Shingles in the sentence but omits quotation marks around verbatim language. A subcommittee of the Harvard Corporation, the university governing body, found that this example—among the least severe uncovered so far—nonetheless warranted a correction.
Shingles did not respond to a request for comment.
The finding comes as Harvard’s board is under growing scrutiny for its handling of the allegations, which it initially tried to squash with a legal threat to the New York Post—before the school had even begun reviewing Gay’s work.
"These allegations of plagiarism are demonstrably false," Clare Locke, the pugnacious law firm retained by Harvard and Gay, wrote to the Post in late October, adding that it would sue for "immense damages" if an article was published. "The so-called ‘plagiarized works’ are both cited and properly credited."
Clare Locke reiterated that the allegations were false in a Nov. 7 letter to the Post, by which point the university had launched its own undisclosed probe.
That probe violated Harvard’s policies for investigating research misconduct and did not cover all the allegations the school had received. In its Wednesday statement, the university said that its review excluded Gay’s 1993 article, "Between Black and White: The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations," where some of the most clear-cut cases of plagiarism were found.
The irregularities have drawn criticism from Harvard professors. Richard Parker, who has taught at Harvard Law School for almost 50 years, told theBoston Globe that the half-hearted investigation "exudes contempt for our students and faculty."
"There are few things more repellent than a top official getting and taking a pass for something they punish underlings for doing," Parker said.
The double standard has raised concerns that Harvard, which sanctions dozens of students for plagiarism each year, could be vulnerable to a lawsuit if it continues holding students to a higher standard than its own president.
"If she gets away with something that students can’t then get away with," CNN’s Jake Tapper said Wednesday, "that could be messy, legally, for the school."
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