Harvard Medical School canceled a lecture last week over concerns that plans for patients from the Gaza Strip to speak would give a one-sided view of the Israel-Hamas war, The Boston Globe reported. 

“In the days since the session was first publicized last week, we heard from students and faculty members who expressed concerns about hearing from individuals impacted in Gaza without also hearing from individuals impacted in Israel,” George Q. Daley and Bernard S. Chang, two deans at the medical school, said in an email to first-year medical and dental students, according to the Globe. “The conflict continues to inflame passions and provoke divisions in our community, and it is our aim to ensure that HMS provides a constructive, non-polarized educational environment for students of all backgrounds and beliefs.”

Administrative uneasiness about the potential consequences of the now-canceled lecture follows more than a year of internal and external scrutiny over Harvard University’s response to war-related protests, and specifically antisemitism, on campus.   

The event was set to include a lecture by Dr. Barry Levy, an epidemiologist and alumnus of the medical school, and a moderated discussion with families of patients from Gaza who are being treated in Boston. 

The Globe reported that there may be plans underway to reschedule the event, but the details aren’t clear. Meanwhile, some students “were outraged” by the cancellation and have made that known to administrators.