A study by professors Jay P. Greene, Albert Cheng, and Ian Kingsbury, found that the more education a person has, the more anti-Semitic he is likely to be
Jewish students at Harvard have sued under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, charging Harvard with having become “a bastion of rampant anti-Jewish hatred and harassment.” And Harvard is not alone among elite universities in facing similar suits. Tenured faculty members at Columbia, Yale, and George Washington exalted over the slaughter of 1,200 Jews on October 7 and the taking of over 200 hostages, without any response from their universities.
Novelist and essayist Dara Horn, a Harvard alumna, was appointed by Harvard’s recently resigned president Claudine Gay to a campus commission on anti-Semitism. In that role, she was immediately deluged with material from current Jewish students at Harvard, where the Jewish population has declined from between 25% and 30% at the end of the ’60s to under 10% today. She learned quickly that the title of her highly acclaimed collection of essays, People Love Dead Jews, is obsolete. As John Podhoretz notes, the largest scale killing of Jews since the Holocaust, instead of winning sympathy for Jews, has “become a wellspring of a new and unprecedented series of assaults on Jews in the United States.”
In a recent Atlantic essay, “Why the Most Educated People in America Fall for Anti-Semitic Lies,” Horn details some of the avalanche of documentation that she received. Jewish students, she makes clear, are not trying to censor speech, no matter how offensive to Jews — like a recent cartoon circulated by pro-Palestinian student groups, depicting a hand with a Jewish star and a dollar sign holding nooses around the necks of an Arab and a black man.
Rather, they have been subjected to conduct that not only violates the Harvard student code but moves far beyond speech into the realm of action: mezuzos torn from door frames; posters defaced with pictures of Hitler, yemach shemo; being forced to run a gauntlet of students with bullhorns celebrating the slaughter of Jews in university libraries, classrooms, and dining halls; professors singling out Jewish students in class for humiliation; dorms rooms defaced with (unprintable) anti-Semitic epithets, threats of physical violence and death; and being spat at.
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