From the Washington Free Beacon: A Harvard Business School professor who participated in a library protest in favor of student anti-Israel protesters is planning to teach a “case” in her class on Friday about divesting from Israeli and other companies because of “their possible complicity in the crisis in Gaza.”
A copy of the 26-page “case” obtained by the Washington Free Beacon puts the decision in the context of responding to “the apartheid regime in South Africa.” The Free Beacon is not printing the case in its entirety because Harvard Business copyrights the materials. The case makes gestures at even-handedness, noting that the movement to boycott, divest, and sanction Israel “faced criticism of antisemitism in its singling out of Israel, as opposed to the numerous other states engaged in human rights violations globally, for divestment.” Yet on careful analysis, the case as drafted is slanted against Israel from the very first sentence, which describes the October 7, 2023, attack as one by “Palestinian armed groups” rather than by terrorists. The word “terrorists” doesn’t appear in the whole case, including in an extensive discussion of what the case calls a “separation barrier” or “wall”—actually a security fence that Israel built to prevent terrorist attacks.
The case is about whether the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global—at $2.1 trillion, one of the world’s largest—should divest from Caterpillar, IBM, Microsoft, and Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Holdings Inc. and Unilever on account of being “‘too’ complicit in unethical activity to justify investment.”
The lead author of the case and the teacher of the business school class is Reshmaan Hussam. Hussam co-wrote an October 2024 Harvard Crimson article about participating in a library protest wearing a black scarf as a variation on “traditional Palestinian keffiyehs” worn by students. “Our students’ suspensions from the library come amid a wave of new, excessively restrictive rules governing campus speech that have been codified in direct response to student protests about the devastation in Gaza,” she wrote. She was also quoted in Harvard Magazine coverage of the faculty in-library protests, which the participants described as “study-ins.”
A Harvard Business School professor who protested in the library in favor of anti-Israel student activists is now set to teach a case study about divesting from Israeli companies because of their “possible complicity in the crisis in Gaza,” @IraStoll reports. pic.twitter.com/rn0R2DpZW5
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) March 26, 2026
The lead author of the case and the teacher of the business school class is Reshmaan Hussam. Hussam co-wrote an October 2024 Harvard Crimson article about participating in a library protest wearing a black scarf as a variation on “traditional Palestinian keffiyehs” worn by… pic.twitter.com/MvStz2sFvY
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) March 26, 2026
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