By Monday, March 30 take 5 minutes to submit a complaint:

1) To stop the erasure of Palestinian narratives, and anti-Arab, anti-Muslim racism at Harvard.

2) To demand cancellation of the 3/31 lecture by Amit Segal, who has made genocide-inciting remarks, as Israel expands its genocide to the Palestinian West Bank and Lebanon, and continues to starve and bomb Gaza.

3) To demand the reinstatement of the canceled programs and leaders, including the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Harvard Divinity School’s Program on Religion and Public Life and Professor Mary Bassett at the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights.

What happened now?

After 2 years of systematically eliminating all the main programs addressing Palestine at Harvard, Harvard now welcomes Israelis to speak alone about “survival in Gaza” and the “future of Gaza."

• On February 23, 2026, the Institute of Politics hosted a former Israeli hostage to tell “A Story of Survival in Gaza,” effectively erasing the nearly 2 million Palestinians whose survival remains in question as Israel continues to bomb and starve Gaza.

• On March 9, 2026, the FAS Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for the Study of World Religions hosted a lecture at the Harvard Divinity School, entitled: “Forging the Monotheistic Triangle: Jews, Arabs, Christians and the Promises of European Modernity,” which conflated Arabs and Muslims, which is racist and Islamophobic and raises questions about academic rigor in an event jointly sponsored by two Harvard departments

• On March 31, the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School will host Israeli Journalist Amit Segal (often accused of being Netanyahu’s mouthpiece) to talk about the “Future of Gaza.” Segal has made statements supporting Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza, and spouted Islamophobic rhetoric about Europe having “too many babies named Mohammad.” That a human rights center should host such a speaker raises questions about whether human rights apply to all people equally.

These are the epistemic consequences of Harvard’s systematic elimination of scholarly and rigorous programs with expertise in Middle Eastern history, culture and religions, including the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Harvard Divinity School’s Program on Religion and Public Life. Nearly half (47%) of Muslim students reported feeling physically unsafe on campus in a 2024 survey. Platforming Islamophobia contributes to this hostile environment, and makes Arabs and Muslims on campus less safe.