A Harvard University graduate charged with assaulting an Israeli classmate during an anti-Israel protest is now on the Ivy League’s payroll in a curriculum-design and consulting position.
Elom Tettey-Tamaklo, 29, landed a Graduate Teaching Fellow role in August with a stipend of up to $11,000, just months after earning his master’s degree in religion, ethics and politics from Harvard Divinity School in May, according to his LinkedIn.
His profile states he is now advising faculty on curriculum design and boosting “academic rigor” in global history, politics, migration, and development.
The accused agitator is also using his migration and refugee-studies expertise to consult on “complex subject matter,” lectures and workshops, his profile shows.
In 2023, at the campus protest, Elom Tettey-Tamaklo was filmed confronting a first-year Harvard Business School student. @canarymission/XTeaching fellows at the Cambridge, Mass., institution generally earn stipends between $3,400 and $11,040, according to the Washington Free Beacon, which first reported the appointment.
Tettey-Tamaklo was charged with misdemeanor assault and battery in October 2023 after a now-viral video showed him and another student confronting and berating a first-year Israeli business school student during a “die-in” protest immediately following Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel.
An FBI probe was also launched into the incident.
Elom Tettey-Tamaklo (left) and Ibrahim Bharmal were arraigned on assault charges stemming from an incident last October at a protest over the Israeli-Hamas conflict. Boston Globe via Getty ImagesA judge later ordered him to complete an anger management course and 80 hours of community service, and the case was reportedly dismissed in November 2024, according to local reports.
While the university did not formally punish him, he was removed from his proctor position due to “student discomfort” but later received a $65,000 Harvard Law Review fellowship, the National Review reported.
America’s oldest college was later slammed by the Trump administration for refusing to expel Tettey-Tamaklo and other students involved, with federal funding threatened to ensure a campus free of antisemitic harassment.
Earlier this year, the Trump administration cut off federal grant money to Harvard and Columbia as a penalty for failing to combat antisemitism after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and the Jewish state’s subsequent invasion of Gaza.
Harvard declined to impose academic sanctions beyond removing Tettey-Tamaklo from a proctor position. REUTERSIn September, the $2.4 billion in frozen federal funding was restored after the Massachusetts school reached a tentative deal with the administration.
Harvard did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
