DEI programs also fuel antisemitism. Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a former associate dean and professor at University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and founder of Do No Harm, watched with dismay as DEI radicalized Penn’s campus culture. “At the heart of DEI is a simple binary: the world is divided between oppressors and the oppressed,” he stated. “Proponents of DEI cast white people as oppressors and black people as the oppressed. While they apply this frame primarily to America, they often apply it to Israel, too. Apparently, Israel is a bastion of Jewish whiteness, with a racist commitment to shattering the lives of nonwhite Palestinians.” To be sure, Jews have reached the height of numerous fields, and Israel is a successful and thriving country. This makes the category “oppressor” seem applicable to those who buy into the ideology, but Jews have also been an embattled minority, subject to centuries of persecution. The simplistic oppressed-oppressor framework so common in DEI cannot cope with the complexity of the Jewish experience, and defaults into placing Jews into the white oppressor box. Dr. Tabia Lee, the former head of DEI at the Silicon Valley-based De Anza College, wrote that she was “told in no uncertain terms that Jews are ‘white oppressors’ and our job as faculty and staff members was to ‘decenter whiteness.’”