CAMBRIDGE — Harvard has officially gone full woke clown show. The embattled Ivy League titan — already drowning in scandals over antisemitism, spineless leadership, and donor revolts — has now hired an anti-Israel protester arrested and charged after allegedly attacking an Israeli student during a 2023 campus “die-in.”

Yes, the same activist at the center of one of Harvard’s ugliest intimidation scandals is now being paid to teach Harvard students.

Elom Tettey-Tamaklo, a Harvard Divinity School graduate, has been hired as a Graduate Teaching Fellow beginning in August 2025, putting him front-and-center in the classroom less than a year after his criminal case was wiped clean through a diversion deal.

The 2023 incident — now infamous nationwide — erupted when Israeli student Yoav Segev tried filming a pro-Palestinian “die-in” at Harvard Business School. What happened next looked less like an academic protest and more like a mob scene: protesters surrounding him, blocking him from leaving, shouting him down, and escalating the encounter.

Segev said Tettey-Tamaklo shoved him and slapped his phone — the confrontation ricocheted across social media as another example of anti-Israel activists turning elite campuses into pressure cookers for Jewish students.

Harvard students protesting against Israel surround a Jewish student and stop him from being able to leave.

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Prosecutors charged him with misdemeanor assault and battery. He avoided trial by completing anger-management classes, a negotiation course, and 80 hours of community service — after which a Boston judge dismissed the case in November 2024.

But Harvard, always eager to prove its ideological purity, has now rewarded him with a classroom platform — even as the university faces a federal lawsuit from the Israeli student accusing Harvard of shrugging off threats, harassment, and a hostile campus environment.

The timing could not be more absurd. Harvard has spent the past two years insisting antisemitism isn’t a problem, watching billion-dollar donors pull the plug, and stumbling its way through public hearings that made the school look like it couldn’t denounce terrorism without a focus group.

And now? It hands a teaching gig to someone arrested in a case that became a symbol of exactly what Harvard pretends doesn’t exist.

Critics say the move is quintessential Harvard: protect the activist, forget the victim, and let the ideology guide the HR decisions. They argue this isn’t just a hire — it’s a message. A warning shot that if you’re Jewish or pro-Israel on campus, you’re on your own. But if you join the activist class, even with an assault charge in your rearview mirror, Harvard will open the door and hand you a chalkboard.

Supporters of Tettey-Tamaklo say the diversion program’s completion clears the slate. But many see something far simpler: Harvard doubling down on the same campus radicalism that dragged it into a national crisis.

As the next school year approaches, one thing is certain: Harvard isn’t just ignoring the criticism — it’s practically auditioning for more.