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A seminary affiliated with Columbia University has hired two left-wing, anti-Israel academics who abruptly resigned from Harvard as they faced criticism for their anti-Israel bias and efforts to “dezionize Jewish consciousness,” @jessicaschwalb7 reports.

@jessicaschwalb7 Union Theological Seminary announced that Diane Moore and Hussein Rashid, who led Harvard’s Religion and Public Life program, will lead a new program by the same name at UTS aimed at teaching students how religion “can be instrumental in just peacemaking.”

@jessicaschwalb7 Moore left Cambridge in January 2025—a semester before her planned “retirement.”

Rashid followed a day later, publicizing a resignation letter that accused the Ivy League school of “anti-Muslim bias” and doing an interview with CNN.

Their sudden exits came amid scrutiny from Harvard’s task force on anti-Semitism, which took issue with an August 2024 paper coauthored by Moore indicating that one goal of the Religion and Public Life program’s annual student trip to Israel and the West Bank was to “dezionize Jewish consciousness.”

@jessicaschwalb7 Four days after Oct. 7, Moore and Rashid coauthored a statement urging students to “challenge single story narratives that justify vengeance and retaliation.”

@jessicaschwalb7 UTS, which gives students access to Columbia’s campus and facilities like libraries, now says Moore and Rashid are an embodiment of the seminary’s commitment “to interreligious engagement.”

@jessicaschwalb7 The pair’s hiring by a Columbia affiliate cements a pattern in which academics ousted by Harvard find refuge in Morningside Heights.

@jessicaschwalb7 Rosie Bsheer, who was removed from her leadership post at Harvard after bringing a litany of anti-Israel speakers and few, if any, dissenting voices, is a finalist for Columbia’s Edward Said chair in Arab Studies, the Free Beacon first reported.

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