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...Gabriel Ashkenazi, a 2004 graduate of Harvard Business School who was appointed chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Forces this weekend, has come under fire from activists at Harvard who say Ashkenazi was responsible for human rights abuses before his arrival in Cambridge...
...mails to The Crimson, the activists alleged that Ashkenazi was responsible for abuses during Israel’s 22-year occupation of southern Lebanon and for his role in overseeing the construction of the barrier separating Israel and several of its settlements from the rest of the West Bank. They also questioned the Business School’s decision to admit Ashkenazi, noting that the alleged abuses had occurred and been documented before he arrived at Harvard...
...violations of human rights or humanitarian law,” said Darryl C. Y. Li ’01, a PhD student in anthropology and human rights and a member of Harvard’s Alliance for Justice in the Middle East. “We are concerned because [Ashkenazi] was the commander of specific units that committed specific abuses against specific victims...
According to some Israeli news accounts—including one in Haaretz, regarded as one of Israel’s newspapers of record—Ashkenazi was “often seen as the most moderate member of the General Staff” when he served as its second-in-command...
Though the activists criticized Ashkenazi's role in building the separation barrier—saying it has been “universally condemned as illegal by the international community”—they emphasized that his actions in southern Lebanon were more problematic. As the “effective supervisor” of the South Lebanon Army (SLA), and later as head of the Israeli Northern Command, they charged, Ashkenazi was responsible for many of the abuses that occurred in the occupied Lebanese territories...