US EditionThe biggest takeaways from Harvard’s task force reports on campus antisemitism and anti-Muslim bias
- Harvard University released two reports on May 2025 addressing antisemitism and anti-Muslim bias following investigations by presidential task forces launched in January 2024.
- The task forces were created amid growing campus tensions, including protests and a legal battle with the Trump administration over a federal funding freeze exceeding $2 billion due to concerns about antisemitism.
- The reports document widespread experiences of alienation, harassment, doxxing, and fear among Jewish, Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian students and faculty, with many feeling silenced or pushed to the campus periphery.
- Survey data showed 67% of Jewish students and 92% of Muslim students feared academic or professional repercussions for expressing their opinions, while nearly 60% of Jewish students reported discrimination and 26% felt physically unsafe.
- The reports recommend policy reforms including faculty training, curricular changes, clearer protest rules, public denouncement of doxxing, improved safety measures, and fostering campus pluralism to rebuild community trust and inclusion.
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7 Takeaways From Harvard’s Task Force Reports
The two University task force reports on bias against Jewish, Israeli, Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian affiliates described reports of threats, slurs, and social exclusion on Harvard's campus and put forth recommendations to address these issues and promote pluralism across the University.
Major university report reveals troubling campus climate
A new report from Harvard University’s Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias reveals that Jewish and Israeli students, faculty and staff have faced unprecedented levels of hostility, exclusion and identity-based bias on campus in the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel.
Report on anti-Semitism highlights tensions at Harvard
Harvard published long-awaited reports on the spread of anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic sentiments on campus. A report on manifestations of anti-Semitism points out that a hostile atmosphere prevails on campus and therefore many students do not feel safe at Harvard.
Harvard task force reports reveal discrimination, hate on campus; president apologizes
Two long-awaited reports from Harvard’s task forces on antisemitism and anti-Israeli bias and anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian bias have been released, and President Alan Garber issued an apology.
Harvard Releases Report On Antisemitism: Impacted Campus Life Worse ‘Than We Would Have Imagined’
On Wednesday, Harvard University released its internal report titled “Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias.” “[A] new generation of student activists seems to have begun to perceive Israel as a symbol and vehicle of the evils of the United States and the rest of the Western world,” the report stated. “A Harvard faculty member who works closely with students reported to us that some Jewish students choose to hid…
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