A visiting scholar at Harvard’s Divinity School is calling out the Ivy League institution, demanding that it own up and confront its “history of antisemitism.”
“It is time to admit it, face it and overcome it. One can criticize policy without calling for an end to the only homeland Jews have ever known,” Rabbi David Wolpe wrote in an op-ed published Friday in the school’s paper, the Harvard Crimson.
“Harvard has a long and disrespectful history of antisemitism, as Harvard President Claudine Gay said in her speech to Harvard Hillel in October. It is time to acknowledge it, face it and overcome it,” he wrote.
“One can criticize policy without calling for an end to the only homeland Jews have ever known. One can demand a Palestinian state without globalizing the intifada – the term for the protests that previously resulted in more than 110 suicide bombings targeting buses, cafes and shopping malls,” he added.
“Israel is the only country in the world that is routinely and extensively targeted for elimination. So is anti-Zionism synonymous with antisemitism?” asked Wolpe.
Rabbi David Wolpe calls on Harvard to confront antisemitism. Getty Images
The piece came after Gay’s comments to Congress that campus calls for the “genocide” of Jews did not necessarily violate the university’s code of conduct.
Wolpe has been a critic of Gay and the university, though he only mentions his October comments in this piece.
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He previously told The Post that Jewish and pro-Israel students were the targets of “deliberate attempts” for intimidation on campus.
In addition to his debacle before Congress, Gay faced widespread calls for his resignation after The Post discovered a consistent pattern of plagiarism in his academic writing — an issue the school publicly denied before launching an investigation.
Harvard has been rocked by allegations of antisemitism in recent weeks. David McGlynn Rabbi Wolpe has already resigned from Harvard’s Antisemitism Advisory Group. Reuters
Earlier this month, Wolpe resigned from Harvard’s Antisemitism Advisory Group — citing an unacceptable campus climate.
“The ideology that grips too many (Harvard) students and faculty, an ideology that works only along the axis of oppression and positions Jews as oppressors and therefore intrinsically evil, is evil.” Wolpe said in a statement X explained his decision.
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