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Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

An insider’s account of the Harvard Antisemitism Committee — with Rabbi David Wolpe

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

Ark Media

Society, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Israel, News Commentary, News, Politics, Elections, Palestine, Dan Senor, Government

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Understanding where and how antisemitism has come to exist at an institution like Harvard is the focus of today’s conversation. We will hear the perspective of Rabbi David Wolpe — visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School — who tried to advise Harvard’s leadership on how to address it; after October 7, he joined Harvard’s Antisemitism Advisory Group. Rabbi Wolpe is also the inaugural rabbinic fellow at the Anti-Defamation League, and he was the long-time rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles. He is the author of eight books, including the national bestseller “Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times”. His book “David: The Divided Heart” was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards.

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0:00.0

There's a terrible paradox here. I mean, how do you wrap your head around the idea that Jews are the subject of 60 to 70 percent of the hate crimes?

0:07.5

They're 2 percent or less of the population. And yet at the same time they also have positions of power in almost every

0:19.5

industry that matters in this country even though there are so few and they're subject to

0:26.8

so much prejudice. So it doesn't fit and therefore all the prejudice has to be

0:31.8

discounted.

0:32.6

There's too much cognitive dissonance.

0:34.5

And Jews are just oppressors, and that's it.

0:37.2

It's like operations on social realities

0:40.4

with a meat cleaver, and anything that doesn't't fit you just lop it off and the Jews don't fit.

0:47.0

They just don't. Earlier this month an oversight board at Harvard University said it had become aware of allegations

1:05.6

regarding three articles by Harvard University President Claudine Gay earlier in her career in which she failed to provide proper citations of other people's

1:16.8

work or quotations.

1:19.8

According to Harvard, an independent review found, and I quote here, no violation of Harvard's standards

1:26.3

for research misconduct, close quote.

1:30.4

But it did report that it had found, quote, a few instances of inadequate citation, close quote.

1:38.0

Now, earlier this week a congressional committee announced an inquiry into how Harvard has handled allegations of plagiarism.

1:47.0

Around the same time, in fact the same day, Harvard said that a different review had found

1:52.1

even more instances of failure to cite the work of others

1:56.5

in President Claudine Gay's writings, including in her 1997 doctoral dissertation, which was written at Harvard University in the government department.

2:07.5

Now there are a number of issues here. There's the issue of the university's current policy on plagiarism, which appears to apply one standard for its students and its faculty,

2:18.0

and another standard for its president.

2:22.0

Then there is the debate about what should actually constitute plagiarism,

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