Despite the congressional hearings and public backlash against Ivy League universities about their acceptance of antisemitism on campus, the leaders of these institutions don’t appear to have learned their lesson.
The University of Pennsylvania recently announced that a political cartoonist named Dwayne Booth would be allowed to return to the university to teach a class on political humor. The course, titled “Sick and Satired: The Insanity of Humor and How it Keeps Us Sane,” is set to run from August to December 2024.
The problem? Booth is a virulent antisemite who has infused his cartoons with anti-Jewish bigotry, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
Dwayne Booth, a lecturer at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication, will teach a course during the upcoming fall semester titled “Sick and Satired: The Insanity of Humor and How it Keeps Us Sane,” according to a new…