A lawyer for the Department of Justice arguing that Harvard University allows antisemitism on campus once wrote an essay as an undergraduate at the school from the perspective of Hitler and was told to redo the assignment, The Boston Globe reported.
DOJ attorney Michael Velchik, who said in federal court that Harvard displays “a wanton indifference to antisemitism,” was tasked in a Latin class during his senior year with writing a short essay from the perspective of a controversial figure from history, mythology, or literature.
Velchik selected Hitler, according to three people who studied in the same department as Velchik at the time. But the instructor refused to grade it and instead asked Velchik to write about a different figure.
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