A visiting scholar at Harvard’s Divinity School is calling out the Ivy League institution, demanding it own up and face its “history of antisemitism.”
“It is time to admit it, confront it and overcome it. One can criticize policies without calling for the end to the only homeland Jews have ever known,” Rabbi David Wolpe wrote in an op-ed published Friday in the the school paper, the Harvard Crimson.
“Harvard has a long and ignoble history of antisemitism, as Harvard President Claudine Gay said in her remarks to Harvard Hillel in October. It is time to admit it, confront it and overcome it,” he wrote.
“One can criticize policies without calling for the end to the only homeland Jews have ever known. One can demand a Palestinian state without globalizing the intifada — the term for a protest that previously resulted in over 110 suicide bombings that targeted buses, cafes, and malls,” he added.
“Israel is the only country in the world that is routinely and widely targeted for eradication. So is anti-Zionism synonymous with antisemitism?” Wolpe asked.
The piece comes on the heels of Gay’s comments to Congress that campus calls for the “genocide” of Jews would not necessarily be a violation of the university’s code of conduct.
Wolpe has been a critic of Gay and the university, though he only mentioned her October comments in this piece.
He previously told The Post that Jewish and pro-Israel students are the target of a “deliberate attempt” at intimidation on campus.
In addition to her disaster before Congress, Gay is facing widespread calls to resign after The Post discovered a consistent pattern of plagiarism in her academic writing — an issue the school publicly dismissed before even launching an investigation.
Earlier this month, Wolpe resigned from his position at the Harvard’s Antisemitism Advisory Group — citing an unacceptable campus climate.
“The ideology that grips far too many of (Harvard’s) students and faculty, the ideology that works only along axes of oppression and places Jews as oppressors and therefore intrinsically evil, is itself evil.” Wolpe said in a statement X explaining his decision.