{"id":2156783,"date":"2024-01-23T11:04:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T16:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elise-stefanik-slams-harvards-appointment-of-anti-israel-prof-to-anti-semitism-task-force\/"},"modified":"2024-01-23T11:04:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T16:04:03","slug":"elise-stefanik-slams-harvards-appointment-of-anti-israel-prof-to-anti-semitism-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elise-stefanik-slams-harvards-appointment-of-anti-israel-prof-to-anti-semitism-task-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Elise Stefanik Slams Harvard\u2019s Appointment of Anti-Israel Prof to Anti-Semitism Task Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felise-stefanik-slams-harvards-appointment-of-anti-israel-prof-to-anti-semitism-task-force%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2156783&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\tRep. Elise Stefanik (Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) slammed Harvard University Tuesday for appointing an anti-Israel professor to a leadership position on its task force to combat anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Harvard has become a disgraced bastion for anti-Semitism,&#8221; Stefanik, a Harvard alumna, said in a statement. &#8220;Not only did Harvard\u2019s leadership allow anti-Semitism to rage on campus as Jewish students faced incessant harassment and physical assaults, they have now shown willful negligence by appointing Derek Penslar as the co-chair to their Anti-Semitism Task Force.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stefanik&#8217;s comments come days after the <em>Washington Free Beacon\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/harvard-anti-semitism-task-force-member-called-israel-a-regime-of-apartheid\/\">reported<\/a> that Penslar had signed an open letter in August calling Israel a &#8220;regime of apartheid&#8221; and called on the United States government to &#8220;restrict American military aid&#8221; from being used in &#8220;the Occupied Palestinian Territories.&#8221; The report also revealed that Penslar had organized faculty in support of former university president Claudine Gay after she <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/watch-mit-penn-harvard-presidents-say-calls-for-jewish-genocide-do-not-violate-code-of-conduct\/\">testified<\/a> to Congress that calling for the genocide of Jews would not necessarily violate her school&#8217;s code of conduct.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The indefensible decision to appoint Penslar to a task force meant to investigate anti-Semitism will undoubtedly lead to the undermining of this task force\u2019s mission,&#8221; Stefanik said. &#8220;It is disturbing that Harvard\u2019s leadership continues down this path of complete and total failure to stand up for the rights and safety of Jewish and Israeli students.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stefanik joins a list of prominent Harvard alumni who have <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/harvard-anti-semitism-task-force-co-chair-under-fire-following-free-beacon-report\/\">slammed<\/a> their alma mater for the appointment of Penslar.\t<\/p>\n<p>Former Harvard president Larry Summers called Penslar &#8220;unsuited&#8221; for the task force. He added that he has &#8220;lost confidence&#8221; in the Harvard leadership&#8217;s ability to create an environment &#8220;where Jews and Israelis can flourish.&#8221; Summers also said that, while he did not believe Penslar was anti-Semitic, the professor had &#8220;publicly minimized Harvard&#8217;s anti-Semitism problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another prominent alumnus to criticize the university is billionaire investor Bill Ackman, who took part in the campaign pressuring Harvard to fire Gay. He said the school &#8220;continues on the path of darkness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Elise Stefanik (Getty Images) Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) slammed Harvard University Tuesday for appointing an anti-Israel professor to a leadership position on its task force to combat anti-Semitism. &#8220;Harvard has become a disgraced bastion for anti-Semitism,&#8221; Stefanik, a Harvard alumna, said in a statement. &#8220;Not only did Harvard\u2019s leadership allow anti-Semitism to rage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2112,"featured_media":2156784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2156783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2156784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}