Former Harvard pres Larry Summers has ‘lost confidence’ in university after anti-semitism scandal

Harvard’s President Emeritus Larry Summers posted over the weekend that he had “lost confidence” in the university’s ability to be a place “where Jews and Israelis can flourish."

Summers made the remarks in response to the Harvard Corporation’s pick to co-lead a new antisemitism task force for the university.

After Friday’s new anti-Semitism task force announcement, I have lost confidence in the determination and ability of the Harvard Corporation and Harvard leadership to maintain Harvard as a place where Jews and Israelis can flourish.

The previously touted advisory committee has…

— Lawrence H. Summers (@LHSummers) January 21, 2024

On Friday, interim Harvard President Alan Garber announced that the institution is creating two task forces to combat antisemitism and Islamophobia and appointing Harvard Professor Derek Penslar, a professor of Jewish history and the director of Harvard's Center for Jewish Studies, as co-chair of the antisemitism task force.