Harvard’s ‘Anti-Antisemitism’ Farce

Harvard’s effort to root out antisemitism has officially entered Keystone Kops territory. Business prof Raffaella Sadun, appointed co-chair of the troubled task force just last month, abruptly resigned over the weekend — reportedly because its mandate doesn’t include any high-priority changes to actually combat Jew-hatred.

The remaining co-chair, meanwhile, is Derek Penslar, an Israel-hating historian who says the problem of Jew-hatred at Harvard had been exaggerated by “outsiders.”

This follows the earlier resignation of world-famous rabbi David Wolpe from the task force, warning that the “system at Harvard” — and “the ideology that grips far too many of the students and faculty” and that “places Jews as oppressors” — is “itself evil.”

And now-ousted prez Claudine Gay’s inability to tell Congress if calls to genocide Jews violate Harvard’s code of conduct.

No real surprise that a university whose staff and faculty came out in force to support the terrorist killers of Hamas after Oct. 7 never planned to actually do anything about dealing with its deep-rooted Jew-hatred.

Plainly, Harvard’s rampant Jew-hatred, far from being exaggerated by “outsiders,” has been fostered by insiders who then set up the task force to whitewash the school, its faculty and its administration.

And to shore up the hard-left political complex in which rank hatred of Jews is laundered via social-justice jargon and junk history into a legitimate form of social protest against the nonexistent “colonialism” that allegedly underlies the foundation of Israel and the nonexistent “apartheid” that Jew-haters claim reigns there today.

The task force is a moral disgrace, and anyone blind enough to remain a member now deserves only public shame.