Harvard’s New Hire Says She’s Boycotting Israel and Avoids Synagogues. She’ll Be Teaching Judaism.

“Left Zionism behind,” she says.

Hasia Diner, 79, seen here in a propaganda video denouncing Birthright Israel as propaganda, will be teaching a new Harvard class on American Judaism.

Harvard University, which faces lawsuits and federal investigations over antisemitism, is launching a new course this spring titled “American Judaism.”

The teacher?

In 2014 she called the term “anti-Semitism” “profoundly overused” and said it should not apply to those who boycott Israel.

In a 2016 article in Ha’aretz, she declared that she had “left Zionism behind.”

“The Israel I once loved was a naive delusion,” she wrote, calling Israel, “a place that I abhor visiting, and to which I will contribute no money, whose products I will not buy, nor will I expend my limited but still to me, meaningful, political clout to support it.”

She wrote that Israel’s immigration laws allowing Jews from abroad to become citizens “can no longer look to me as anything other than racism.”

She wrote, “I feel a sense of repulsion when I enter a synagogue in front of which the congregation has planted a sign reading, ‘We Stand With Israel.’ I just do not go and avoid many Jewish settings where I know Israel will loom large as an icon of identity.”