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Harvard’s students and employees have faced all the anti -Semitism and Islamic fear in a very extreme atmosphere on one of the best universities in the United States.

The issuance of reports on Tuesday follows the establishment of separate work teams on combating anti -Jewish feelings and anti -Muslims last year, amid protests on the campus on the Israeli war on Gaza.

It also comes at a time when Harvard University is involved in a legal battle with US President Donald Trump because of his decision to freeze more than a billion dollars in the university’s financing, a step that Trump’s claims have been taken in response to anti -Semitism on the campus.

In a statement announcing the results, the President of Harvard University, Alan Garper, said that members of the Jewish, Israeli and upper community reported that “public signs of their identities to avoid confrontation”, while members of Arab, Arab and Palestinian society described the feeling that they were “judged, involved, and silent.”

“The worry in particular is the readiness of some of the reported students to treat each other with contempt instead of sympathy, and they are eager to criticize and reject, especially when it is given to hide the identity and the distance provided by social media.”

“Some students have reported to be paid by their peers to the vicinity of the life of the campus because of those who are or what they believe in, which leads to the erosion of our common sense of society in this process.”

In its report, the work squad of anti -Semitism and anti -Israeli bias said in its report that the bias was “overcame, practiced and tolerated” at Harvard University and within the academic circles on a larger scale.

In an internet poll, 26 percent of the Jewish students reported that they were physically insecure, while 39 percent said they did not feel at home at the university, the work group said.

The work group said that approximately 60 percent of Jewish students reported “discrimination, stereotypes, or negative bias” due to their opinions, with only 25 percent believe that there is no “academic or professional punishment” to express their opinions.

Among other examples of the aforementioned bias in the report, the work group quoted an unveiled Arab -Israeli student as saying that the Israelis were “accustomed to social discrimination” from their first day on the campus.

The report reported that “people refuse to speak to you. They do not pretend to be nice. Some people pretend they are nice and end up with a conversation (A) in a polite way when they discover (I) Israeli and then do not speak to (me) again.”

The work group of combating anti -Muslims, anti -men and anti -Palestinian, found a similar climate of hostility, describing a “deep feeling of fear” between students and the state of “uncertainty, abandonment, threat and isolation” on the campus.

“The Muslim women who wear the veil and students supporting the Palestinians who were wearing Kefiyehs spoke about facing verbal harassment, called” terrorists “, and even paste.

He added that “the issue of doxxing was particularly highlighted as a major concern that does not affect only physical safety and well -being, but also future professional prospects,” referring to the practice of detecting personal information or identifying information online.

Nearly half of the Muslim students and employees who were included in the survey reported that they are physically unsafe on the campus, while 92 percent said they believed that they will face professional or academic sanctions to express political opinions.

“As Muslim students, we used to live in permanent fear,” the work group quoted an unveiled student as saying.

“There were trucks wandering all over the campus for several months, and the faces of Muslim students were shown … my colleagues who lost their jobs just because they were in the leadership of Islamic faith organizations were excluded to dry as soon as their offers are canceled, but they may think that there are anti -textile trucks that were wandering on the campus and planes that are developing with anti -contestants, I cannot think it cannot help in it. “

Both work teams have released a series of recommendations to combat prejudice on campus, including expanding access to the legal services equipped to control Doxxing and determine admission priorities from students who support the open investigation.

Garper said that the university will work to double its efforts to ensure that it is a place “in which ideas, enjoyment and dates are welcomed in the spirit of searching for truth” and “mutual respect is the rule.”

He said: “Especially when the tensions are high, we must adopt the challenge of seeing each other as we are in fact, unique individuals who have complex beliefs and identities, and leave our prior concepts behind us and meet each other gently and anxiously.”