Former national security adviser Jake Sullivan has been protested by students from Palestinian pro-universities during his first public release since joining Harvard Kennedy School faculty earlier this month, a campus newspaper reported.
8 Harvard Affiliates Unfolded banner According to Harvard Crimson, the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the University of Massachusetts Institute of Politics on Tuesday was when Sullivan discussed US foreign policy.
Protesters – Members of the unrecognized student group “Harvard Out of Occuped Palestine” did not “verbal interrupt” the event, but they held a poster that denounced Sullivan’s new role with faculty members, which began on April 1st.
“War criminals are not welcome here,” reportedly read one sign.
“We stopped the Hague after Harvard,” another said.
When asked directly about his refusal to call the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict “genocide,” Salvan replied.
“I think Israel was trying to defeat a terrorist group and they are trying to overact by doing so, and I think that’s completely different from calling it genocide,” he explained.
Campus police officers voluntarily allowed protesters to stay on their signs before they left their agreement “just before the end of the forum,” Crimson reported.
Meanwhile, Sullivan cut off under the Biden administration Pro-China luckyhe did not speak to the protesters during his lecture. There, he boasted about the “many, many, many times” he spent with China’s Foreign Ministry.
“I thought the way they handled it — the way people who had dissent expressed their views — would be acceptable,” former dean Graham T. Allison told Crimson. “I think it was actually the way things were done.”
“That’s the first revision in the field of open discussion,” he added.
Sullivan’s boast about his work with the Biden administration and China is found here.
Olivia Rondeau is a political reporter for Breitbart News, based in Washington, DC. X/Twitter and Instagram.
