Harvard Med School, Fordham profs launch program to combat Jew-hatred in psychology education

Dean McKay, a psychology professor at Fordham University, and Miri Bar-Halpern, a psychology lecturer at Harvard Medical School, plan to create a program to fight Jew-hatred in their field.

McKay told JNS that the initiative, which the Academic Engagement Network is supporting with a $75,000 grant over three years, will “address issues in professional training that may have antisemitic components to it, which is growing increasingly common in the profession.”

Anti-Zionism is embedded in the “decolonial psychology movement,” which teaches that Zionism is a “settler-colonial” movement and that “...