Harvard Also Has Christian Antisemitism

The school owns a ‘nondenominational’ church, which bashes Israel from its pulpit.

By Ira Stoll. Mr. Stoll writes at TheEditors.com. He was a Harvard employee, 2019-23. Excerpts:

"‘As queer and trans people, political radicals, abolitionists and anti-Zionists, imagination is our calling,” a Harvard Divinity School student pronounced on campus. She denounced Israel’s “state violence, settler colonialism, fermented trauma and religious nationalism.”"

"It was a sermon at morning prayers inside Harvard’s Memorial Church."

"The Harvard Corp. selects and employs its minister. The church website, with audio and transcripts of sermons, has a Harvard.edu address."

"When it comes to Israel and the Jews, as the Divinity School student’s speech indicates, Harvard’s main campus church has been heavy on critique and light on compassion."

"On Nov. 26, 2023, Mr. Potts told his congregation: “We know what hell looks like. It looks like Jerusalem 2,000 years ago. It looks like Gaza today.”" (the Rev. Matthew Ichihashi Potts, a Divinity School professor and Memorial Church minister)

"On April 28, 2024, in a Sunday sermon, Mr. Potts praised the anti-Israel occupiers of Harvard Yard"