“These universities have shown themselves to be evil at the core.” Why former UPenn patron David Magerman has given up on the Ivy League
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Jewish students at campuses across America have been on the sharp end of a surge in anti-Semitism disguised as anti-Israel activity in recent years. While pro-Israel speakers were harassed, university administrators sat by, and Jewish life on campus suffered.
In the wake of the October 7 attacks, that slow-burn deterioration turned to something far worse. Long before Israel had begun its offensive into Gaza, left-leaning academics joined an army of students in a vicious campaign of victim-blaming. Belated, pro-forma and equivocating statements from university officials against Hamas’s actions were drowned out by the ferocity of pro-Hamas support across many campuses.
At the very institutions that abound with safe spaces to shield students from discrimination of all types, expressions of vicious anti-Semitism were given the go-ahead.
Some donors tried to push back, leveraging their support to force the universities to treat the concerns of Jewish students with at least as much seriousness as fat-phobia, but the pro-Palestinian hysteria was allowed to continue.
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