The controversy on campus reflects the divide on the conflict.
Long a place of political and philosophical debate, college campuses, like Harvard University, are now at the center of a controversial debate over the
"This is the most tense campus has ever been by far," Hejir Rashidzadeh, a Harvard law student, told ABC News. Pro-Palestinian students and groups at Harvard, however, rejected that they are blaming the victim. They said they are also afraid to speak their mind on campus. The vigil was held Thursday evening, with the student groups telling participants to wear masks, and masks handed out on site, to conceal their identities.
"On the first day, when everything started, I just got a message from my grandmother just letting me know that 10 members of our family had been killed," the student said. "This isn't the first time this has happened." "We have lived under siege and under war," she added of those in Gaza. "We have seen wars time and time again."
"It's hard to focus on your work and daily life when you know you have family that you kind of don't really know if they're safe," he said. A truck driving around Harvard's campus identifies people who signed onto a controversial letter supporting Palestinians in the wake of an attack by Hamas."Let me also state, on this matter as on others, that while our students have the right to speak for themselves, no student group -- not even 30 student groups -- speaks for Harvard University or its leadership," Gay wrote.
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