WASHINGTON FREE BEACON: .......-----------------------....... https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!By1D!,w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61839cb5-af87-4adc-8807-82526a481884_736x554.png Harvard “bioethicist” Bilal Irfan in a screenshot from a Harvard-sponsored Jewish Voice for Peace event, March 22, 2026 As Harvard faces a lawsuit from the federal government over “relentless antisemitic on-campus discrimination,” the university’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights “co-sponsored an event with a boycott-Israel advocacy group in which a Harvard researcher accused Israel of ‘genocide’ in Gaza,” Free Beacon senior writer Ira Stoll reports. The online event from the Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council took place two days after the Justice Department announced the suit and featured Harvard “bioethicist” Bilal Irfan as its main speaker. Irfan spoke of “Israel’s policy of destroying the health system,” which he said was part of the Jewish state’s “genocidal aims.” He made no mention of the Oct. 7 Hamas terror rampage, referring instead to Oct. 28, 2023, as “three weeks into the genocide.” He demonized Israeli doctors as “pro-genocide,” accusing Israel of “sexual violence against children” and of detaining children “in small cages.” He concluded by urging attendees to “continue advocacy in your personal and professional lives.” Harvard’s anti-Semitism task force singled out the FXB Center, which sits within Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, for presenting “a demonizing view of Israel and Israelis.” Stoll writes: As Robert Friedman, who graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 2024, noted in a November 18, 2025, report on a previous FXB webinar, the task force report described the FXB webinars about Gaza as “characterized by bias and misinformation,” noting, “The accumulation of dis- and misinformation of this kind about Israel is a form of demonization, and we were told it was experienced as such by Israeli and Jewish members of our campus community.” Said Friedman, “When a webinar like this is presented even after students have complained about the series and after a presidential task force has faulted them—and even after Harvard became subject to lawsuits and federal investigations for antisemitism—it raises questions of institutional intent.” That observation applies a second time around, and with emphasis, again, here. READ MORE: Israel’s ‘Genocidal Aims’ Denounced by Harvard Researcher at Harvard-Sponsored Event Days After U.S. Government Files Antisemitism Lawsuit Against University Comment