Harvard’s New Antisemitism Task Force Co-Chair Accused of Antisemitism
Derek Penslar-Co-chair of Harvard’s antisemitism task force/mage: Harvard University
Harvard can’t seem to get a handle on their antisemitism problem.
A newly created task force convened to fight antisemitism on campus has already come under fire after comments from the co-chair of the Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism, Jewish history professor Derek Penslar, have come to light.
The New York Post reports that a passage in Penslar’s 2023 book declares, “Veins of hatred run through Jewish civilization.”
“Israel’s dispossession of Palestinians from their land and oppression of those who remain have made it one of the most disliked countries on the planet,” Jewish history professor Derek Penslar claimed in his tome, “Zionism: An Emotional State,” in which he wrote,
