Amid Israel-Palestinian war protests, pro-Palestine demonstrators raised a Palestinian flag where the U.S. flag typically hangs. It was not authorized by Harvard.
. The protesters are calling for universities to divest and cut ties with Israel in response to the Palestinian death toll in Gaza.claims that on Harvard’s campus, Harvard University officials replaced the American flag with a Palestinian flag amid the protests, implying that the university was siding with the pro-Palestinian activists.WHAT WE FOUND
According to Harvard, American flags were not being flown at the time the Palestinian flags were raised. University standard procedure is that the American flag is raised on University Hall at 7 a.m. and lowered at 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, Harvard says.
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