Jews in American academia seem to have been surprised by the recent wave of antisemitism. I would like to ask them and other American Jews four questions.
While Israel is fighting to eradicate Hamas, the shockwaves of the war in Gaza have reverberated thousands of miles away. In a surge of activism, large numbers of students on America’s college campuses have lined up behind the Palestinian terrorist group, waving the Palestinian flag and expressing antisemitism at a level never seen before in America.
The pro-Hamas activism began already days after the October 7th Palestinian terrorist attack in Israel. It has continued since then, and it seems to have taken our academic institutions by surprise. This is especially the case with Jewish-American members of the faculty, who are now struggling to understand the new reality in which they live and work.
