If you are not already upset at Harvard's reaction to the on-campus expression of support to Hamas and its actions, please take a moment to put yourself closer to what Jews and Israelis may be feeling today. Pick a different set of perpetrators and victims and place the attack physically and/or emotionally closer to you. Sadly, examples where terrorist attacks and/or atrocities associated with identity politics are not far in each and every populated continent. Just find one that is closer to you. Imagine [perpetrators] committed barbaric atrocities just as degenerated as those committed by Hamas against [victims] in [city], such as beheading babies in front of their parents, burning entire families alive, raping young girls before killing them and parading them as trophies or taking little kids as hostages (and the list of gory details can be tragically expanded). 

Would it be OK to have rallies at Harvard's campus blaming it entirely on the victims while the attack is still unfolding, the atrocities are still being committed and posted online? Would it be tolerable? Wouldn't you expect the school's administration to condemn if not the atrocities, at the very least the on-campus support to those atrocities (even if the expressions of support were allowed for the sake of protecting free speech)? Would it be OK for the school's administrators to remain silent for days? How would you feel about that silence? Wouldn't the silence or lack of condemnation to the on-campus support to the atrocities be de-facto normalizing hate speech? Wouldn't you believe that if this were to happen on the campuses of many leading universities including Harvard, Stanford, Penn, Columbia, etc. it would have far reaching real-world consequences even affecting the lives of those who may be totally distant from, completely indifferent to, or even show profound contempt towards these universities?

Would changing the perpetrator, the victim and the place make any difference? If it does, why is this one different? 

If you are not comfortable with the school's reaction, can you please support this request for change so that there is a loud and clear grassroots message to all constituencies that Jews and Israelis should never again meet such deafening silence and painful indifference from Harvard's leadership? 

Thanks for your empathy and support, please pass along.