The Harvard Corporation broke with the university’s faculty on Wednesday, and voted to deny thirteen seniors from graduating on Thursday because they broke university rules by participating in the 20-day long anti-Israel encampment.

Despite the faculty group overwhelmingly voting to confer the degrees to the anti-Israel students, the Corporation cited the student handbook rules requiring good standing for graduation in their decision.

“Today, we have voted to confer 1,539 degrees to Harvard College students in good standing,” the Corporation wrote in a statement on Wednesday, according to the Harvard Crimson. “Because the students included as the result of Monday’s amendment are not in good standing, we cannot responsibly vote to award them degrees at this time.”

The Corporation is the university’s highest governing body and consists of 13 members, including Harvard’s interim president, Alan Garber. The annual Faculty of Arts and Sciences is a sparsely attended meeting where faculty vote to approve the list of degrees for conferral, according to the Crimson.

Student Shraddha Joshi posted an email on her Instagram that informed her that she would not be graduating this spring. 

“Because of your probation, you are not a student in good standing under the express provisions of the Harvard College Student Handbook, and as a result, the Corporation did not vote to confer your degree,” it states.

Joshi is a co-organizer of the October statement blaming Hamas’s terror attack on Israel, according to Canary Mission.

Although during the meeting members made the case that they had the authority to allow the students to graduate and approve disciplinary actions, the Corporation disagreed that this power applied in this situation.

“We respect each faculty’s responsibility to determine appropriate discipline for its students,” the Corporation wrote. “Monday’s faculty vote did not, however, revisit these disciplinary rulings, did not purport to engage in the individualized assessment of each case that would ordinarily be required to do so, and, most importantly, did not claim to restore the students to good standing.”

The Corporation also mentioned concerns about the precedent breaking the handbook rules could set. 

“We also considered the inequity of exempting a particular group of students who are not in good standing from established rules, while other seniors with similar status for matters unrelated to Monday’s faculty amendment would be unable to graduate,” the Corporation wrote.

The 20-day encampment drew criticism from many Harvard affiliates including Garber himself who said the protesters were disruptive, caused events and exams to move, and had situations where people were harassed and followed. 

“The encampment favors the voices of a few over the rights of many who have experienced disruption in how they learn and work at a critical time of the semester,” Garber wrote in a May 6 statement threatening suspension. “I call on those participating in the encampment to end the occupation of Harvard Yard.”

The encampment ended last week after administrators negotiated with the anti-Israel students, reportedly agreeing to be lenient to those facing disciplinary action and allowing them to meet with governing boards about divesting from Israel.

On Friday, the Harvard College Administrative Board suspended five students and placed more than 20 more on probation, according to the Crimson.

Comedian Bill Maher spoke to Megyn Kelly about the pro-Hamas madness on college campuses, and both agreed that the social justice warriors have lost it by sticking up for terrorists.

During Sirius XM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast, Kelly asked the host of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” how we got to a place where the Left is defending terrorists and supporting murderers like Hezbollah and Hamas with pro-Palestinian protestors “chanting at Jews that they can’t go to class.”

“If I ever needed a reason or rationale for making the case that the Left has changed, it would be this,” Maher replied. “The fact that they’re now marching for the terrorists, really? The people who see themselves as the most liberal people in the world, the social justice warriors, are standing with some of the most illiberal people in the world.”

“Look kids, I know you’re looking for a cause,” he added. “And that’s admirable, that kids want to have a cause. I got one for you. Women. Women around the world, especially in Muslim majority countries. Hamas? I mean, really, you’re marching for Hamas?” 

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The “Real Time” host said “every possible thing that is a left-wing cause they [Hamas] violate, even the people of course under the rule of Hamas hate them. It’s a fascist dictatorship. It’s worse. It’s a fascist dictatorship with a hard Right, religious bent. It’s like the worst of all worlds. And those are your heroes?”

Kelly brought up the recent TikTok trend by some young people praising September 11th terrorist attack mastermind Osama Bin Laden.

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“This is one of the big problems with the Left today is they see race in everything,” Maher replied. “As the guy who is trying to, like, be the common sense person in the middle, just speak for the normies, everything, I think to a lot of people, strikes at the way it strikes me as we start with one thing, this idea over here and then we’re all the way on the other side over here.”

“And of course it’s great that we got more impatient with racism in this country; that is the appropriate response … and then it goes all the way to and ‘no one who is a person of color can ever do anything wrong,’” he added.

“That’s how you get, ‘we don’t talk about China,'” Maher continued. “North Korea starves its people. China puts the Uyghurs in concentration camps. The president of Burundi … said we should march the gays into football stadiums and kill them for just being gay … but none of these crimes are coming from white people, so crickets. Really kids, nothing? No marching against any of this?”

In December, Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye said, “If you want to attract a curse to the country, accept homosexuality.”

“I even think that these people, if we find them in Burundi, it is better to lead them to a stadium and stone them,” the president said. “And that cannot be a sin.”