Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, announced Monday that he was withdrawing from two fellowships at Harvard University, citing the institution's response to student groups that blamed Israel for a series of recent terrorist attacks by Hamas.

The school has been in national headlines since the Harvard Palestinian Solidarity Committee, a pro-Palestinian student group, released a now-infamous statement signed by more than 30 student groups that blamed the Israeli government for the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks. The attacks and Israel's subsequent military response have claimed more than 6,000 lives, according to estimates from both sides. Hamas has also taken nearly 200 hostages, including U.S. citizens.

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In a letter to Harvard President Claudine Gay, Hogan said he had been honored to accept fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics and the T.H. Chan School of Public Health but that the recent wave of antisemitism on campus had led him to reconsider.

"I cannot condone the dangerous anti-Semitism that has taken root on your campus, especially by more than 30 Harvard student organizations attempting to justify and celebrate Hamas' terrorism against innocent Israeli and American civilians," Hogan wrote in the letter. "This horrific terrorist attack was the greatest loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust and it should be universally condemned as exactly what it is: pure evil."

Hogan, who left office in January 2023, blasted the school for not "forcefully" condemning the antisemitism and said the institution's reputation was stained as a result.

"While these students have a right to free speech, they do not have a right to have hate speech go unchallenged by your institution," he wrote. "Harvard's failure to immediately and forcefully denounce the anti-Semitic vitriol from these students is in my opinion a moral stain on the University."

Since leaving office, Hogan has left open the possibility of running for office again, likely for president as a third-party candidate under the banner of No Labels, a centrist group that pushes bipartisan initiatives. The organization has openly discussed the idea of backing a presidential ticket in 2024 in the event of a likely rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

In his letter to Gay, the former Maryland governor said there was "no 'both sides' when it comes to the murder, rape, and kidnapping of innocent women and children."

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"I believe very strongly that in this matter there is no room for justification or equivocation," he added.

The Washington Examiner reached out to Harvard for comment.