The Washington Free Beacon has spent years documenting the anti-Semitism, DEI theology, and gravitational pull of mediocrity that now defines the Ivy League. But even we were not prepared for the clarity provided by Harvard University’s response to the conduct of two graduate students who accosted an Israeli classmate just weeks after Oct. 7.
Ibrahim Bharmal and Elom Tettey-Tamaklo were slapped with criminal charges for their conduct. As legal proceedings unfolded, Harvard responded decisively, refusing to cooperate with prosecutors.
Bharmal and Tettey-Tamaklo graduated earlier this year, Bharmal from the law school, Tettey-Tamaklo from the divinity school. Bharmal left Cambridge with a $65,000 Harvard Law Review "public interest" fellowship, which is underwriting his work for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Tettey-Tamaklo didn't leave at all—Harvard hired him as a graduate teaching fellow working to "advise faculty on curriculum design." It’s a busy time for Bharmal and Tettey-Tamaklo, who will have to juggle their new gigs with anger management classes and community service, the price they are paying to get out from under the assault charges.
Compare their cases with the man they targeted, Israeli business school student Yoav Segev.
Local prosecutors were unable to charge more students who harassed Segev because Harvard wouldn't cooperate with the investigation, a move one assistant DA described as "a shock to the Commonwealth."
When Harvard Business School considered sending a message addressing Segev's assault, university president Alan Garber advised against it, arguing that, while Segev was "technically within his rights" to film demonstrators at the "die-in," the way he did so appeared "provocative." He didn’t mention whether Segev was also wearing a short skirt.
Ibrahim Bharmal and Elom Tettey-Tamaklo, we salute you. For demonstrating that the nation’s "leading" "university" will excuse loathsome conduct, obstruct justice, and blame the victim—when he’s a Jew—rather than tell the left-wing nutcases in its midst to pound sand, we tip our hats to you. You may have single-handedly forestalled a deal between Harvard and the Trump administration. For that, you are Washington Free Beacon Men of the Year.