The visit under the radar of former President Joseph R. Biden at Harvard University may not be as well as expected, thanks to the demonstrators, the blunders and a situation of ice cream.
The newly retired democrat was greeted by a dozen anti-Israeli activists after Word disclosed his off-center seminar on Wednesday with a limited group of teachers and students organized by Harvard Kennedy School Institute for politics.
“Biden, Biden, you can’t hide! You commit a genocide,” sang the demonstrators who also hit the battery and sounded Bells, according to the Harvard Crimson.
Mr. Biden appeared at the invitation of the former main advisor to the White House, Michael Donilon, a long -standing hand of Biden as a resident scholarship holder at the Institute.
The ex-president offered university support in his power test against campus anti-Semitism and ideological extremism with the Trump administration, which recently suspended $ 2.2 billion in federal funding and threatened to revoke Harvard tax exemption.
“Harvard intensified in a way that no one else did,” said Mr. Biden, according to The Crimson, citing two students who attended the private rally. “You should be really grateful.”
Mr. Biden, 82, has largely disappeared from public view after leaving his duties on January 20. He made his first public remarks on Tuesday, exploding President Trump on Social Security in a speech among defenders, advisers and representatives of the disabled conference in Chicago.
In Harvard, Mr. Biden showed that his penchant for verbal stumbles and errors had not deserted him.
“His appearance was marked by stammers of the genre that became political parates during the 2024 presidential race, in particular in reference to Ukraine in Iraq while discussing the invasion of Russia before Donilon corrects it,” reported the student newspaper.
“And when Biden bitten in an ice cream bar after the conference, the partially melted dessert fell to the ground,” said the report published Thursday.
Mr. Biden did not meet Harvard president Alan Garber, during his visit, reported the newspaper.
