Rabbi: I Can't Stay on Harvard's Anti-Semitism Board After Gay's Testimony

1/3 Resigning, a Hanukkah Message: As of today I have resigned from the antisemitism advisory committee at Harvard. Without rehashing all of the obvious reasons that have been endlessly adumbrated online, and with great respect for the members of the committee, the short…

— David Wolpe (@RabbiWolpe) December 7, 2023

“Without rehashing all of the obvious reasons that have been endlessly adumbrated online, and with great respect for the members of the committee, the short explanation is that both events on campus and the painfully inadequate testimony reinforced the idea that I cannot make the sort of difference I had hoped,” Rabbi David Wolpe, a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Divinity School, wrote on Twitter. …

“[T]he system at Harvard, along with the ideology that grips far too many of the students and faculty, the ideology that works only along axes of oppression and places Jews as oppressors and therefore intrinsically evil, is itself evil,” he wrote. “Ignoring Jewish suffering is evil.”

[It sounds as though Wolpe began to wonder whether he was being used as window dressing after getting a good look at Gay’s positions. I’d say that he’s correct to worry about that, if so. — Ed]