Antisemitism on college campuses is at an all-time high.
In ‘Biden’s Strategy to Fight Anti-Semitism Enables Hatred of Jews and Israel’, I take apart the hype over the antisemitism strategy and what it really means.
What it means is that the Biden administration allowed the Left to call half the shots in framing the strategy. And the end result is a complete irrelevance. While the various machers are celebrating, you can find the real bottom line in the Dear Colleague letter generated by the Department of Education.
Antisemitism on college campuses is at an all-time high. Much of it is driven by leftist and Islamist groups harassing Jews over Israel and disgusting their antisemitism as anti-Zionism.
The resulting letter to educational institutions makes no mention of Israel and is nothing more than a generic restatement that Title VI applies to Jewish students. It does note that it “extends to students who experience discrimination, including harassment, based on their actual or perceived: (i) shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics; or (ii) citizenship or residency in a country with a dominant religion or distinct religious identity.”
That does cover Israel, but the vast majority of Jewish students being harassed on campus are not Israeli.
The issue is that Jewish students are being targeted because of Israel. Fewer Israeli students are around on American campuses. And fewer of them seem to need protecting.
Compare this to the DOE’s “Combating Discrimination Against AANHPI and MASSA Students” letter which offers examples that could trigger an investigation such as “During a lesson about 9/11, classmates of a Muslim middle school student call him a terrorist and tell him to go back to his country.”
DOE’s Dear Colleague letters offers no such specifics, no meaningful guidance and no serious muscle. The letter is a formality and colleges, including some of the most abusive ones like CUNY and the University of Vermont, know it.
Walter Sieruk says
That malice -filled hate of Joe Biden for the Jewish people is very clear and obvious .What is also clearly expressed is the truth that the former United States President ,William Howard Taft,who in a speech rightly and wisely declared “Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.”
Of all the terrible things, a “noxious weed ” is in this year sitting in the Oval Office of the White House masquerading as a real, genuine US President .
Taking into account the wise words of President Taft.There is really , their be no room for Joe Biden in America, much less in the Office of the Presidency , Therefore Biden shoild move to either Red China or Islamic Iran to live since he favors those two tyrannical regimes so much.
So that “noxious weed…” ,Biden, he should be voted out of the White House in 2024 .For he has no place in the Office of the US Presidency. As that statement of Mr. Taft may well apply to him.
Walter Sieruk says
As the former United States President Taft has said about Anti-Semitism in the US that “It has no place in America.’
Therefore that anti Jewish , anti-Israel ,Joe Biden ,is in essence very Un -American in spirit mind and action.
Thus the other statement in a speech by the former US President ,Theodore Roosevelt words in it are a negative reflection on that pseudo “president” Biden.
For Theodore Roosevelt did ,righty , declared “There can be no fifty -fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americana and nothing else.”