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College Presidents Tell Congress They’ve Done Nothing About Antisemitism

Pro-Israel faculty members have been more likely to be barred from campuses than pro-Hamas ones.

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The House held its latest batch of hearings on antisemitism to the frustration of the Democrats because the folks being dragged in front of the cameras, university presidents, shine a light on their party’s hate.

This time around, the focus was on the pro-Hamas encampments and university presidents dodged the issues (this time around they also avoided saying that they weren’t sure if calls to kill all the Jews were wrong) by refusing to discuss actions by faculty and students, and pledging only to have commissions on antisemitism.

Since these commissions will be selected by university leaders and made up of their political allies, but the outcome is already pre-determined.

The bottom line is that if the KKK had set up encampments on college campuses, they would have been booted not in days or weeks, but hours at the longest. Any students and faculty involved with them would have also been suspended and barred from campuses.

Instead, pro-Israel faculty members have been more likely to be barred from campuses than pro-Hamas ones.

University presidents admitted that virtually no students have been disciplined. They tried to put off members of Congress by promising that there was a process underway, The process involves giving terror supporters a pass while dragging things out for as long as possible.

Administrators claimed that they didn’t want to call the police because it would undermine “student safety”, while allowing harassment and attacks on Jewish students did not threaten anyone’s safety. Or anyone who mattered.

And Rep. Ilhan Omar jumped in to claim that the Hamas supporters were the real victims.

The media is covering the hearings in predictable fashion and while they are important, the really important question is whether they will lead to action. Civil rights laws are in place that prevent exactly this kind of behavior. They won’t be enforced at the local level where, for example, the majority of the LA Board of Supervisors voted to help the supporters of killing Jews, but they can be enforced at the local level. Biden won’t do it, but Congress has levers for making it happen, including tying funding to enforcement mechanisms.

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Daniel Greenfield

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

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  1. University Presidents, a rich subject for criticism. At Berkeley they generally caved to the protestors.

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  5. Many of these university administrators are Jewish themselves but have done nothing as antisemitism on their campuses has grown. In fact, insofar as they have hired only leftists and promote marxist teachings to their students, they have contributed to antisemitism as Jews have been moved from the category of oppressed to oppressors.

    Along with other Presidents, Jewish heads of universities come across in their testimony as more concerned about the feelings of the pro-Palestinian protestors (even when that fig leaf exposes they’re pro-Hamas, a designated terror group) than they are the security of Jewish students. What’s up with that?

    One is reminded that antisemitism in pre-war Germany also started in their academia and spread outward.

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  6. The goal of any leftist is to destroy institutions while simultaneously using the “levers of power” of the institutions to maintain and expand control. The amount of cognitive dissonance required to do this is off the charts. Everything they do is deception designed to expand their power and control. Take a look at many major American cities. The left can maintain their grip on power for decades while simultaneously destroying their cities and keeping the people coming back for more-indefinitely. In the same fashion leftist administrators and professors can destroy education while at the same time expanding and tightening their grip on the education system for decades on end. For Bolsheviks the revolution is ongoing and never ending.

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    • People with Jewish heritage were over-represented among the Bolshevik movement that eventually devoured them under Stalin. Jewish profs and other influencers who side with the pro-Hamas protestors are repeating their errors. With the Jewish vote split this way, one has to hope that “our” Jews are better than “their” Jews but has it yet occurred to anyone that a house divided is susceptible to falling and it’s a small house on the world stage.

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  7. There should be no special rights or oppressor / oppressed categories.

    Natural / Constitutional rights extend to every person under our laws. Speaking and thinking about rights belonging to categories of people muddles our thinking, creates victim classes and destroys equality under the law.

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