Harvard hires Divinity School graduate who faced assault charges against an Israeli student at a protest

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A Harvard University postgraduate initially charged with assaulting 1 of his Israeli classmates astatine a high-profile "die-in" protestation successful October 2023 has been hired by the Ivy League college, according to reports.

Per the Washington Free Beacon, Divinity School postgraduate Elom Tettey-Tamaklo has started his caller occupation arsenic a postgraduate teaching chap successful August.

According to the National Review, Tettey-Tamaklo is liable for advising module connected program plan and consulting connected analyzable world taxable matter, and whitethorn beryllium receiving a stipend of up to $11,000.

In 2023, astatine the field protestation held aft the Hamas panic attack, Tettey-Tamaklo was filmed confronting first-year Harvard Business School pupil Yoav Segev arsenic helium tried to movie the protest, the National Review reported.

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Harvard Protest

In 2023, astatine the field protest, Tettey-Tamaklo was filmed confronting a first-year Harvard Business School student.

Tettey-Tamaklo was charged with misdemeanor battle and battery. Later, a justice ordered him to implicit anger-management classes, instrumentality a Harvard dialog people and implicit 80 hours of assemblage service.

After fulfilling those terms, a Boston Municipal Court justice dismissed the lawsuit successful November 2024.

Despite the controversy, Harvard allowed Tettey-Tamaklo to proceed his studies astatine the Ivy League schoolhouse earlier hiring him successful his caller role.

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Harvard postgraduate students Elom Tettey-Tamaklo (left) and Ibrahim Bharmal were arraigned connected battle charges stemming from an incidental past October astatine a protestation implicit the Israeli-Hamas conflict.  ( David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

In 2023, the battle incidental drew involvement from the Trump administration, which asked Harvard to analyse the confrontation and expel Tettey-Tamaklo and different students involved.

At the time, it warned that the university’s national backing depended connected ensuring a field escaped from antisemitic harassment.

Harvard declined to enforce world sanctions beyond removing Tettey-Tamaklo from a proctor presumption owed to what officials described arsenic "student discomfort."

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Pro-Palestinian Harvard students

The pro-Palestinian Harvard students were arraigned successful 2024, a twelvemonth aft the 2023 protestation clash connected campus. ( David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Tettey-Tamaklo was not the lone pupil charged. Harvard Law School postgraduate Ibrahim Bharmal besides took portion successful the protestation and faced the aforesaid battle charges.

Harvard continued to enactment him, and helium aboriginal received a $65,000 Harvard Law Review fellowship.

According to reports from the Harvard Crimson, astatine the time, some defendants maintained that they did not marque carnal interaction with Segev and argued that they were subjected to racially biased policing by the Harvard University Police Department.

The outlet said the constabulary study indicated that protesters pressed their torsos against Segev arsenic they tried to artifact his camera, though the officers identified Tettey-Tamaklo, Bharmal and 1 different idiosyncratic arsenic the "most prolific and aggressive."

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Meanwhile, Segev has filed a national suit accusing Harvard of failing to support him and obstructing efforts to question disciplinary action.

He alleges the assemblage utilized "misleading tactics" that prevented him from pursuing administrative remedies during the transgression investigation.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Harvard for comment.

Emma Bussey is simply a breaking quality writer for Fox News Digital. Before joining Fox, she worked astatine The Telegraph with the U.S. overnight team, crossed desks including foreign, politics, news, athletics and culture. 

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