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On April 29, 2022, the Harvard Crimson published a blood libel against the nation state of the Jewish people. Its ignorant and bigoted screed was an example of journalistic malpractice, because of its willful errors of commission and omission. On April 30, I submitted a detailed op-ed refuting the Crimson editorial. On May 1, the Crimson said they were “reviewing” my submission; on May 2, they said they were “interested in running’ it;” and on May 4, they said they would run my piece “probably tonight” and promised to “reach out with edits later today if needed.” As a result of these assurance, I withdrew my op-ed from any other publication. Then on May 4, they “decided not to publish” my piece, using the phony excuse of “very high number of submissions . . . . combined with our currently limited production schedule.”
These are obvious lies: they were aware of the submissions and schedule when they told me less than one day earlier that they would publish it “probably tonight.” Moreover, their online edition has no space limitations. They deliberately baited me into not publishing it elsewhere until it was no longer timely.
When I protested their “disgraceful breach of journalistic ethics,” they changed their minds again and agreed to run it in the form of a much-shortened letter to the editor.
They asked me to eliminate the accusation that their editorial encouraged the current form of antisemitism. I refused. Then they demanded documentary proof of my opinions – something they did not provide for their own egregiously false statements. When I provided the documentation, they finally ran out of excuses, and they reluctantly published the shortened letter.
This bait and switch compounded their unethical action in knowingly publishing defamatory lies about Israel. Here is the full op-ed they accepted and then rejected.
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