Harvard University has hired a student who was charged with assaulting an Israeli classmate at a “die-in” protest in October 2023, just weeks after the Hamas terror attack.
Elom Tettley-Tamaklo was caught on camera at the protest accosting a first-year student, an Israeli man who was then studying at Harvard Business School. After the encounter, Tettley-Tamaklo was charged with misdemeanor assault and battery. He was ordered by a judge to take an anger management course and complete 80 hours of community service as part of a pre-trial diversion agreement.
Tettley-Tamaklo was allowed to continue his studies at Harvard Divinity School after the incident and was hired as a Graduate Teaching Fellow in August, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Tettley-Tamaklo, who recently graduated from Harvard Divinity School, is now tasked with “advising faculty on curriculum design” and will be “consulted on complex subject matter,” according to the LinkedIn post, which was first reported by the Washington Free Beacon. Graduate Teaching Fellows are typically drawn from the ranks of Ph.D. students and are paid a salary of up to $11,000 for their work.
As Tettley-Tamaklo’s case was playing out, the Trump administration called on Harvard to investigate the October 2023 incident and expel Tettley-Tamaklo and his co-conspirators. In a letter addressed to the president of Harvard, the administration laid into Harvard’s leadership for tolerating antisemitic harassment on campus and threatened to revoke federal funding if reforms were not instituted.
Federal funding “depends on Harvard upholding federal civil rights laws, and it only makes sense if Harvard fosters the kind of environment that produces intellectual creativity and scholarly rigor, both of which are antithetical to ideological capture,” the letter reads.
