Julia I. Bertelsmann, writing in the Crimson, addresses whether critics of Israel are persecuted at Harvard. Professor J. Lorand Matory says this is the case, claiming that critics of Israel “tremble in fear” on campus.

“In fear of what,” Bertelsmann asks, “becoming a bestselling author at the Harvard Coop?” She concludes:

It is not critics of Israel who live in fear at Harvard. Rather, it is students and faculty from the Arab and Muslim world who feel they must censor their criticisms of autocracy and human rights abuses in their home countries…Even at Harvard, critics of Iran and other undemocratic regimes in the Muslim and Arab world fear for their lives and liberty.