Harvard Chooses Prof Who Called Israel 'Apartheid' State to Co-Chair Antisemitism Task Force

Tré Goins-Phillips : Jan 22, 2024
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"Harvard University—the rot of antisemitism at the disgraced school sinks to a new low..." -X post by Stop Antisemitism

[Faithwire.com] Harvard University announced the creation of an antisemitism task force late last week, and it's already facing intense scrutiny for choosing as its co-chair a professor who has accused Israel of ethnic cleansing and labeled the Jewish state "a regime of apartheid." (Image: Unsplash-Pascal Bernardon)

Interim Harvard President Alan Garber named Derek Penslar, an historian and director of Harvard's Center for Jewish Studies, as the task force's co-leader, an appointment that quickly drew the scorn of Jewish leaders and prominent figures within the Ivy League school's ecosystem, Jewish Insider reported.

"Yes, we have a problem with antisemitism at Harvard, just like we have a problem with Islamophobia and how students converse with each other," Penslar told JTA earlier in January. "The problems are real. But outsiders took a very real problem and proceeded to exaggerate its scope."

Those comments, though, are mild in comparison to things Penslar said last year... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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