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Collapse of applications for enrollment at the prestigious American university of Harvard while the others of the Ivy League, the cream of US education, have increased. The reason, according to the New York Times, is easy to say: the anti-Israel and pro-Gaza protests that have characterized the last few months. It all started with a letter from 30 student organizations calling “the Israeli regime entirely responsible” for Hamas’ October 7 attack. writes the US newspaper, a movement that “may have damaged the reputation of the university and discouraged some students from applying”. Harvard isn’t the only college protesting on behalf of Palestine, but it’s paying a bigger price. Applications have increased at the University of Pennsylvania, which has been hit by scandals, as well as at MIT and Columbia University, reports Corriere della Sera.

In the USA the debate on anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and freedom of expression is heated, as is the growing intolerance for woke culture. A Jewish student, Alexander Shabbos Kustenbaum, denounced Harvard University: “We decided to take legal action because we did not receive the answers we wanted from Harvard. We, as Jewish students, have the same rights as other students according to federal laws and the university’s own policy. We don’t believe that at this moment we are enjoying these rights, we feel we are being treated differently”, the American student told Radio Libertà in recent days. “If this insidious ideology, anti-Semitism, is not fought and driven away at a place like Harvard that is supposed to prepare the next generation of American leaders, then there is a dark future ahead of us. We filed the lawsuit in January, today we have updated the file, unfortunately adding other events that have occurred in the meantime. Harvard will have to respond by April 14. I invite everyone to read the file, which is online and public. Harvard has allowed anti-Semitism to occur and has given strength to anti-Semites”, he said on demonstrations in support of Gaza.