"Last Tuesday afternoon, Dean Andrea Baccarelli at the Harvard School of Public Health sent out a brief message announcing that one of the country's most experienced and accomplished public health leaders, Dr Mary T Bassett, would step down as director of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights. The email struck a polite, bureaucratic tone, thanking her for her service and offering an upbeat rationale for a new focus on children's health."
"The decision was not a routine administrative transition. It was the culmination of a year of escalating pressure on the Center for Health and Human Rights for its work on the health and human rights of Palestinians. Powerful figures inside and outside Harvard, including the former Harvard president and now thoroughly disgraced economist Larry Summers, condemned this work and claimed it foments antisemitism."
Dean Andrea Baccarelli announced that Dr Mary T Bassett would step down as director of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, thanking her and offering a rationale focused on children's health. The announcement omitted that Bassett had been asked to resign two hours earlier and told to vacate her office by year-end. The removal followed a year of escalating pressure over the Center's work on Palestinian health and human rights. Powerful figures, including former Harvard president Larry Summers, condemned the work and alleged it foments antisemitism. Hundreds of faculty and students denounced the ouster. The episode exposes conditional commitments to universal moral missions across human rights institutions, global public health organizations, and American universities when confronted with Palestine-related political pressures.
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