Liberal Forum

DeSantis appointee to Florida university board under fire for comments about Jews, womenA professor and conservative activist nominated by Gov. Ron DeSantis to chair a Florida university board is in political hot water this week over a series of tweets counting the number of Jews, women, seniors and gay lawmakers among Senate Democrats and lamenting that there were too few “straight, white non-Jews” available to lead or reform the party.

Yenor has insisted that his remarks were not antisemitic. He told Jewish Insider that he “was saying that Democrats would not abide having Jews in leadership roles, based on the Josh Shapiro experience,” referring to presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s decision to pass up the Jewish governor of Pennsylvania as her 2024 running mate.

I believe him...