Liberal universities are creating a new generation of antisemites
Zachary Faria
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The growing displays of antisemitism across the country make it clear that liberal universities have fostered a new generation of antisemites who think they have the right to harass and threaten Jewish students on their own campuses.
Cornell University had to inform Jewish students to stay away from the university’s Center for Jewish Living amid threats and admitted that it would not be able to protect them. Yale’s student-run newspaper cast doubts on the conclusively established fact that Hamas terrorists raped and beheaded Israeli civilians during the Oct. 7 invasion and massacre that started the war. And protests are continuing on campuses across the country as students march in solidarity with the antisemitic terrorists who slaughtered more than 1,400 civilians.
You need look no further than university staff and faculty to see why this is happening. Take Cornell, which has since reported the threats against Jewish students to the FBI and stationed security around the Jewish center. Just two weeks ago, a professor at Cornell spoke to a crowd of student protesters and called Hamas’s slaughter of Jews “exhilarating” and “energizing.” You need not look far for examples of professors at other universities tacitly (or, more often, openly) cheerleading Hamas’s massacre and dehumanizing of Jews, including at Yale, Columbia, and in the University of California system.
The antisemitism that has taken root among college students is a direct result of the hateful left-wing ideology that has been fostered and promoted at universities. It is a combination of the racial obsession that has been put front and center in higher education and the promotion of violence as an acceptable solution to “hateful” views. Therefore, students view Hamas terrorists as victims of a slaughter they perpetrated and think they can respond with violence toward Jews for committing the crime of existing.
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These ideologically broken, hateful professors have passed on their broken, hateful views to their students, and this is the result. Higher education does not just have problems with affordability and bureaucratic bloat; it is creating new antisemites by the day, peddling the same antisemitic tropes of generations past and openly defending terrorism. It is a problem that can’t be solved simply by trying to shame everyone involved.
The move by Wisconsin Republicans to defund DEI programs and by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) to shutter pro-terrorist student organizations are good first steps, but the response must be more comprehensive. Every element of funding for universities must be reevaluated because taxpayers shouldn’t be expected to fund the creation of a new generation of antisemites in the U.S.