‘A Deeply Concerning Turn of Events’: Harvard Professor Raffaella Sadun Resigns as Co-Chair of Presidential Task Force on Antisemitism

In response to Harvard Business School Professor Raffaella Sadun’s resignation as co-chair of Harvard’s presidential task force on antisemitism, Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) Sacha Roytman issued the following statement on Monday:

“The resignation of Professor Sadun is a bad sign for the future of Harvard’s antisemitism task force. Professor Sadun reportedly resigned after growing concerned that Harvard wouldn’t implement the task force’s recommendations. This is a deeply concerning turn of events and suggests that Harvard continues to be uncommitted to fighting antisemitism and protecting its Jewish students, faculty, and staff. Harvard must make assurances to put together a task force that not only is committed to making tangible recommendations but that will actually serve to identify and fight antisemitism and implement those recommendations.”

The full details of Sadun’s resignation can be be read in The Harvard Crimson HERE.

Rabbi David Wolpe resigned from the same task force in early December, after then-Harvard President Claudine Gay’s congressional testimony in which she failed to explicitly say that calls for genocide of Jews violated campus anti-harassment rules.

Gay later stepped down from the presidency following revelations of suspected plagiarism in multiple past academic works.

The task force was established at the end of October amid criticism of Harvard’s response to the October 7th Hamas massacre in Israel and the global wave of antisemitism it triggered.