Harvard Insider Explains Who Is Really Funding Elite Colleges & Why the Spread of Antisemitism on College Campuses Should Concern Us All

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Mayim Bialik

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🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

When one of America’s most respected rabbis—Rabbi David Wolpe—resigns from Harvard’s antisemitism advisory committee in protest, it sparks national outrage. In this explosive exposé, Rabbi Wolpe (Max Webb Emeritus Rabbi of Sinai Temple in LA, Scholar in Residence for the Maimonides Fund, and Rabbinic Fellow of the ADL) shares the inside story behind the Harvard antisemitism protests, exposing what’s really happening on elite college campuses. From his firsthand experience on Harvard's antisemitism task force, Wolpe reveals shocking accounts of Jewish students being harassed, the disturbing impact of foreign funding promoting anti-Western ideology, and how DEI policies are contributing to a toxic campus culture where antisemitism is normalized. This is not just about Harvard—it's about the rise of antisemitism on college campuses, threats to free speech, and the future of American education.

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0:00.0	Harvard has an anti-Semitism problem,
0:03.0	but the problem is bigger than anti-Semitism.
0:06.0	Our country is being influenced by people who are anti-Western.
0:12.0	They did an experiment at one of the colleges where they put up a whole bunch of American flags,
0:16.0	and guess what, the next day they were all torn down.
0:18.0	The Houthi flag reads,
0:20.0	Death to America, Death to Israel, Death to Jews. And that is all torn down. The Houthi flag reads, death to America, death to Israel, death
0:22.2	to Jews. And that is all one sentiment. That was celebrated on many of the campuses we're discussing.
0:28.2	It is a large anti-Western movement, and it has profound implications for America and for Americans,
0:35.5	and they can't afford to turn away. There is an insidious infiltration of our university system and our education system
0:43.5	that literally is using the Jewish cause to insert its ideology, which is explicitly
0:50.3	anti-liberal, anti-democratic, and anti-Western.
0:54.9	It's devastating to the structure of the academic institution if you believe in it.
1:07.1	Hi, I'm I'm Bialik.
1:08.6	I'm Jonathan Cohen.
1:09.6	And welcome to our breakdown.
1:11.9	We're going to be talking today about something that we've been hesitant to talk about, but it's important. It's important
1:17.0	if you value the ideals of Western society, if free speech is important to you, if freedom of
1:23.3	religious expression is important to you, if freedom to express your gender or sexual identity
1:28.6	is important to you, if the ability to receive an education without threat is important to you.
1:35.6	We're going to be talking in particular about Harvard and about the university system in general.
1:40.2	What's happening on college campuses for the past few years are a lot of conversations about who can protest where, who feels safe, where.
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