As universities try to compete for more students and faculty, homogenous opinion is spreading on campus, and academia has metastasized from liberal to illiberal bias.
"If Harvard president Claudine Gay wasn’t a person of color and a member of the LGBTQ+ community, they’d likely have shown her the door by now (as was the case for University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill, a white woman)."
Another Substack columnist (I don't remember who) speculates that if Penn had an endowment as large as Harvard's Magill would have kept her job. Harvard is so well funded ($51 billion) it feels it can tell its wealthy Jewish donors to go to hell. My grad school alma mater Columbia has an endowment smaller than Penn's, which is probably why Columbia kicked SJP and JVP off of its campus (which nonetheless remains a hostile environment for Jewish students and faculty).
The goal of Diversity Intiyiaives is the destruction of Diversity and Heritage in favor of a homogeneous brown population of eternal slaves with no sense of community and no hope of Social Mobility.
It's not more complicated than that. Jew Hate is just conducive to the elimination of Diversity.
Antisemitism in these universities has been going on for years, especially at Stanford and Collumbia, hotbeds of antisemitism. There are more Arab teaching assistants at Columbia than any other university. Couple that wth Qatar billions to these universities for hospitals, tech centers, and you known why the university president's mouths were duck taped. There was a survey yesterday in which 18-24 years said Israel should give up Israel to Hamas. I had to reread it to make sure I read what I did. In the US, DEI has begun at the elementary through high school levels to indoctrinate the students with the oppressed vs. oppressor mentality. The poison ivy universities are an abomination. Parents would be smart to take their children out of those uni's and put them in a university where they will get an education and preparation for careers. Others should attend trade schools if that's where their interest is. Why take on exhoribitant debt to be indoctrinated? I went to UPenn in the 80's to start a doctoral program, and I can tell you, I could get an 'A' with my eyes closed. I was so disappointed in the quality of the coursework, I left. That was many years ago, so I can just imagine how far the standards have fallen. Maybe it hasn't gotten bad enough until everything turns around again. i remain hopeful, but it will take a lot to do that with the universities. To change the way the world feels about Jews is a whole other challenge.
Another important precedent is that the rise of antisemitism in Nazi Germany seems to have been propelled by German universities. I recently saw an exposition of this fact but forgot where - perhaps Tablet or Mosaic.
It is well past time that Jewish philanthropy went to creating world-class universities in the United States with a Jewish worldview (like the Christians have done with some of their universities). We are supposed to be the people with all the brains? We constantly win Nobel Prizes? Well, instead of pouring money into Ivy League universities that have shown their true anti-Semitic colors, let us create our own bastions of learning in the sciences and arts - and continue to support higher education in Israel, too, of course.
In the wake of the Israsel-Hamas war, antisemitism has spiked on campuses, but the level of hostility to Jews and Israel on campus differes significantly across schools and does not seem related to incidents.
Len, it will be interesting to learn what you discover, and what you might mean by "incidents." In any event, apart from punctuation, in two sentences you've spelled three words incorrectly: Universitty, Israsel, differes. No offense meant, but your research discoveries will be taken more seriously if you take a moment to proofread your comments before posting.
"If Harvard president Claudine Gay wasn’t a person of color and a member of the LGBTQ+ community, they’d likely have shown her the door by now (as was the case for University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill, a white woman)."
Another Substack columnist (I don't remember who) speculates that if Penn had an endowment as large as Harvard's Magill would have kept her job. Harvard is so well funded ($51 billion) it feels it can tell its wealthy Jewish donors to go to hell. My grad school alma mater Columbia has an endowment smaller than Penn's, which is probably why Columbia kicked SJP and JVP off of its campus (which nonetheless remains a hostile environment for Jewish students and faculty).
The goal of Diversity Intiyiaives is the destruction of Diversity and Heritage in favor of a homogeneous brown population of eternal slaves with no sense of community and no hope of Social Mobility.
It's not more complicated than that. Jew Hate is just conducive to the elimination of Diversity.
Antisemitism in these universities has been going on for years, especially at Stanford and Collumbia, hotbeds of antisemitism. There are more Arab teaching assistants at Columbia than any other university. Couple that wth Qatar billions to these universities for hospitals, tech centers, and you known why the university president's mouths were duck taped. There was a survey yesterday in which 18-24 years said Israel should give up Israel to Hamas. I had to reread it to make sure I read what I did. In the US, DEI has begun at the elementary through high school levels to indoctrinate the students with the oppressed vs. oppressor mentality. The poison ivy universities are an abomination. Parents would be smart to take their children out of those uni's and put them in a university where they will get an education and preparation for careers. Others should attend trade schools if that's where their interest is. Why take on exhoribitant debt to be indoctrinated? I went to UPenn in the 80's to start a doctoral program, and I can tell you, I could get an 'A' with my eyes closed. I was so disappointed in the quality of the coursework, I left. That was many years ago, so I can just imagine how far the standards have fallen. Maybe it hasn't gotten bad enough until everything turns around again. i remain hopeful, but it will take a lot to do that with the universities. To change the way the world feels about Jews is a whole other challenge.
Another important precedent is that the rise of antisemitism in Nazi Germany seems to have been propelled by German universities. I recently saw an exposition of this fact but forgot where - perhaps Tablet or Mosaic.
I read something similar on The Free Press just a few days ago.
Yes, that was what I read, also.
That’s right!
It is well past time that Jewish philanthropy went to creating world-class universities in the United States with a Jewish worldview (like the Christians have done with some of their universities). We are supposed to be the people with all the brains? We constantly win Nobel Prizes? Well, instead of pouring money into Ivy League universities that have shown their true anti-Semitic colors, let us create our own bastions of learning in the sciences and arts - and continue to support higher education in Israel, too, of course.
We have them — in Israel ;)
See new research re antisemitism on 50 US campuses conducted by my team at Brandeis Universitty https://www.brandeis.edu/cmjs/research/antisemitism/hotspots-2023-report1.html
In the wake of the Israsel-Hamas war, antisemitism has spiked on campuses, but the level of hostility to Jews and Israel on campus differes significantly across schools and does not seem related to incidents.
Len, it will be interesting to learn what you discover, and what you might mean by "incidents." In any event, apart from punctuation, in two sentences you've spelled three words incorrectly: Universitty, Israsel, differes. No offense meant, but your research discoveries will be taken more seriously if you take a moment to proofread your comments before posting.
I can't access it on Android. Trying to scroll zooms the page incredibly fast, I can't even read the opening paragraph.