Sazi Bongwe, a Harvard University student who won a Rhodes scholarship to study at the University of Oxford, penned an op-ed in the Nation in which he appeared to refer to Palestinians “daring to resist” on Oct. 7.

“Israel has made it clear that with every bomb it is teaching a lesson: Resistance is futile; resist at the risk of annihilation,” the Johannesburg native wrote on Sept. 18, 2024. “The Palestinian’s suffering, Israel declares to the world, is all the fault of the Palestinians for daring to resist.”

In the same piece, he referred to Israel launching a “brazen campaign of genocidal bombing and starvation” and using “starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza.”

An official Harvard University publication confirmed his Rhodes scholarship. (JNS sought comment from Harvard and Oxfo

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