Harvard and University of New Hampshire (UNH) are platforming war criminals of the former Biden administration — U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and White House Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa Brett McGurk — hiring them as professors while suppressing students’ dissent. At a time when university administrations — in collusion with the U.S. government — expel, deport, and disappear students for standing against genocide, employing war criminal sends a clear message to students: shut up and let the war criminals speak.
Sullivan and McGurk violated both domestic and international law by facilitating weapons transfers to Israel despite irrefutable evidence of Israel’s war crimes. If our students can learn anything from them, it’s how to be unstrategic, genocidal, incompetent leaders. The recently targeted and martyred journalist Hossam Shabat said, “If our voice is killed, then be our voice.” As journalists in Gaza were and continue to be killed, university students rose up in solidarity. Now, they’re facing unrelenting repression, so we must speak against the genocide and condemn universities for silencing students who talk about it. There are no institutions coming to save us — demanding accountability is our duty.