After outcry, Harvard reversed course and restored a fellowship for Kenneth Roth, a leading human rights activist who criticized Israeli policies.
Dean Douglas Elmendorf of Harvard Kennedy School reversed course on Thursday and decided to allow former Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth to join the Kennedy School Carr Center for Human Rights Policy as a Fellow.
In the interview with NPR, Roth appealed to Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow to"clarify, where does Harvard stand on this?""He said, 'do you have any enemies'? Now, I mean, that's hard because I have tons of enemies." "But, you know, I had an inkling what he was driving at. So I said 'and also the Israeli government doesn't like me.'"Roth told NPR that mentioning Israel was"the kiss of death."
"At Human Rights Watch, I regularly received pushback because of what we said about this or that government, and I would say that Israel was at the top of the list," he told NPR.But Roth said he was never asked to exempt Israel from his scrutiny at Human Rights Watch. What worried Roth about his experience at Harvard was"younger academics who take the lesson that if you dare to criticize Israel, your career could be compromised.
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