Eric Trager (MAGA ‘McGurk’), recently appointed Senior Director for the Middle East and North Africa on President-elect Donald Trump’s National Security Council, became embroiled in a controversy during his time at Harvard University. 

While serving as secretary of Harvard Students for Israel (HSI) in 2004, Trager went undercover in an effort he said was aimed at gauging anti-Semitism within a campus anti-war group, the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ). Trager created a false persona, Fabian Cooper, and posted anti-Semitic content under this assumed name on HIPJ’s blog. One post referred to Israel as the “AshkeNAZI state” and praised Palestinian suicide bombers as “freedom fighters,” while another glorified Saddam Hussein.

Harvard Crimson, citing Amee Chew ’04, an HIPJ member, noted “the group removed both posts from its website within minutes of their appearance.”

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