National Review Online editor Phil Klein, on today’s edition of The Editors, called Harvard’s sudden interest in academic freedom “a bit rich.”

Klein found it disingenuous “for Harvard to suddenly care about academic freedom and suddenly say civil rights laws are being too strictly applied,” in response to pressure from the Trump administration. He noted the harassment that Jewish students have endured there, adding, “Basically Harvard may as well have just declared it open season on Jewish students. It’s not a safe, welcoming environment for Jewish students. And [Harvard is] completely fine and okay with that.”

He also argued that if this type of harassment was happening to black students at Harvard, “it would not have taken the government to go to this length to try to do anything about it.”

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