Campus antisemitism is an America First issue. Alumni must stay in the fight.
Earlier this month, a federal judge dismissed the Trump administration’s lawsuit against Harvard on the grounds that the antisemitism alleged by the Justice Department was "too isolated and episodic" to show that Harvard had violated federal law.
While this was a setback in the valiant effort by the federal government to address campus antisemitism, federal efforts alone will not result in meaningful change.
The root of the problem is a rotten academic culture that begins in the classroom and is protected and fueled by administrators.
Whoever owns the classroom owns the culture, and that culture is primarily responsible for the threat to Jewish safety today.
JUDGE’S HARVARD ANTISEMITISM RULING SENDS TRUMP JUSTICE DEPARTMENT BACK TO DRAWING BOARD Recently, 170 Harvard faculty members — Jews and non-Jews alike — published an open letter highlighting antisemitic incidents that have taken place at the institution.
These incidents included an Israeli undergraduate student at Harvard being "told to leave a classroom by an instructor because her being Israeli made other students uncomfortable." Other Jewish students experienced demands to "renounce Zionism" and faced ostracism when they refused.
Such incidents are allowed to happen by administrators who foster a culture of impunity.
DAVID MARCUS: TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY DUFFY IS RIGHT; HARVARD JUST AIN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE Antisemitism on campus is an America First issue because it is an outgrowth of the crisis in our education system.
Malign actors like Qatar have embedded themselves in American academia through lavish spending that university administrators happily accept.
Qatar’s foreign influence operations directed at American universities raise concerns about national security, institutional integrity, and equal protection under law.
During the height of the "tentifada," the encampments and associated violations of student codes of conduct and criminal law were justified by many as displays of "free expression." Signs and screams wishing away the existence of Israel and the presence of Jewish students violated the rights of Jewish students to free expression and religious liberty around the country.
DOJ SUES UCLA OVER ALLEGED ‘JUDENREIN’ CONDITIONS DURING ANTI-ISRAEL ENCAMPMENT When I was a student at George Washington University, I found inversions of justice and perversions of language.
A friend of mine standing peacefully across the street holding an Israeli flag was told to leave while the tents stayed up for weeks.
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