Harvard University just announced it's handing out cushy Radcliffe Fellowships — worth at least $89,550 over nine months — to four anti-Israel activists, because apparently the best use of an Ivy League endowment is bankrolling people who think the Jewish state is an "ecofascist" nightmare. This while the university is still locked in a bare-knuckle fight with Congress over its federal funding.

You genuinely cannot make this stuff up. Harvard is on its knees begging Washington for money with one hand and writing five-figure checks to professional Israel-haters with the other. Brilliant strategy.

The Washington Free Beacon's Ira Stoll broke down the Radcliffe Institute's 2026-2027 fellowship class, and buried in the "full list" — conveniently separated from the main press announcement — were four fellows whose résumés read like a Hamas sympathizer's LinkedIn. We're talking about a filmmaker, a "journalist" working for a Qatari-owned outlet, an English teacher at a Hamas-linked university in Gaza, and a professor who has publicly characterized Israel as an "ecofascist state" guilty of "domicide" and "scholasticide."

"Scholasticide." That's a word someone invented to sound academic while accusing Israel of destroying education. Meanwhile, the university handing this person $89,550 to sit around and think deep thoughts apparently sees no irony whatsoever.

And the benefits don't stop at the nearly ninety-grand stipend. These fellows also get a housing allowance, child care, health care coverage, moving expenses, full Harvard library access, athletic facilities, office space, and paid undergraduate research assistants. It's basically a luxury resort package for hating Israel on an Ivy League campus.

Let's remember where we are in the timeline. Harvard has spent the last two years getting dragged through congressional hearings over rampant antisemitism on campus. Jewish students have been harassed, intimidated, and told they're not welcome at a university their families helped build. Congress responded by turning off the federal funding spigot. And Harvard's big move? Reward the very activists who created the problem in the first place.

The Radcliffe Institute tried to be slick about it, too. They didn't trumpet these four in the main fellowship announcement. Stoll had to dig through the full list to find them buried at the bottom, like a restaurant hiding the health code violation behind the specials board. If you're proud of your fellows, why hide them?

Because they know exactly what they're doing. They know Congress is watching. They know donors are furious. They know Jewish alumni are closing their checkbooks. And they simply do not care. The ideology comes first — always has at Harvard, always will.

Here's the kicker: every single dollar Harvard spends on these fellowships is a dollar they could have used to, oh I don't know, protect Jewish students on campus. Or fund actual scholarship instead of activist cosplay. Or maybe just pay back some of that federal money they claim they desperately need.

But no. $89,550 per activist, times four, plus housing, health care, child care, and a personal undergraduate assistant. Your tax dollars didn't directly fund this — but they funded the university that made it possible. And Congress should remember that the next time Harvard comes crawling back to Capitol Hill with its hand out.

If you ever needed proof that the Ivy League is a lost cause, here it is: $90,000 a year to hate Israel, and they wonder why the funding got cut.