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<\/a>The Jewish establishment is still failing on campus antisemitism<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\nJonathan S. Tobin<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n They\u2019re still trying to play catch-up. And still failing. The recent announcement of a\u00a0framework<\/a>\u00a0of recommendations for how to battle \u201cpersistent campus antisemitism,\u201d endorsed by the Anti-Defamation League, Hillel International, the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations and the Jewish Federations of North America is an attempt on the part of these establishment groups to re-establish their bona fides on an issue of crucial importance to American Jewry on the eve of a new school year.<\/span><\/p>\n Rather than taking a stand that would put them behind a critical push to address the root causes of the surge in antisemitism that followed the Hamas-led Palestinian Arab terror attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, they have instead opted for the worst sort of politicized compromise. While there is much in their statement about measures to be undertaken by colleges and universities that is good, by refusing to endorse an effort that would actually ensure that the disaster on campuses would not recur, they have failed again.<\/span><\/p>\n They deliberately left out any mention of the need to rid academia of indoctrination in the woke catechism of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), which is the reason why so many in the system have fallen for Hamas propaganda, believing the blood libels thrown at Israel and the Jews. It is that fashionable ideology that has helped to convince a generation of younger Americans that Jews and Israel are \u201cwhite\u201d oppressors who are always in the wrong, and that the Palestinian Arabs who seek the Jewish state\u2019s destruction and genocide of its population are \u201cpeople of color\u201d always in the right.<\/span><\/p>\n Without DEI and the raft of toxic left-wing ideologies that go with it, the encampments that turned parts of campuses into \u201cno-go\u201d zones for Jews and the mobs chanting for Israel\u2019s destruction and Jewish genocide (\u201cFrom the river to the sea\u201d) and terrorism against Jews wherever they live (\u201cGlobalize the intifada\u201d) are simply unimaginable.<\/span><\/p>\n Yet in their \u201cTo Do\u201d list for American education to deal with the problem of antisemitism, the four major groups completely ignored this essential element.<\/span><\/p>\n Why would they do that?<\/span><\/p>\n The answer is simple. Many in the Jewish establishment simply refuse to understand what\u2019s at stake in the debate about DEI. And the reason for that can be described in one word: politics.<\/span><\/p>\n One of President Donald Trump\u2019s domestic priorities has been the push to force elite institutions to drop the DEI policies that have led to their tolerating and encouraging antisemitism. Yet rather than align themselves with the president, these four major Jewish groups prefer silence on this crucial issue rather than get behind the most important and potentially successful effort to end Jew-hatred on college campuses.<\/span><\/p>\n The post-Oct. 7 surge in antisemitism caught the American Jewish establishment by surprise and largely unprepared to deal with a crisis of unprecedented dimensions. That was particularly true with respect to what was happening on college campuses. Pro-Hamas mobs of students, faculty and staff\u2014often aided by outside agitators\u2014turned many academic institutions into places where Jews were targeted, intimidated and even subjected to violence.<\/span><\/p>\n The initial response from much of the organized Jewish world to this situation was a mix of confusion and outrage.<\/span><\/p>\n Though angered\u2014as well as astonished\u2014by the way academia had become hostile territory for Jews and Israel supporters, it was difficult for most of those at the head of these mainstream groups to comprehend why all this was happening. Unaccustomed to seeing schools where Jews had felt at home for most of the last century as places where they were now viewed as outside of the consensus, they were reluctant to draw conclusions about the way left-wing ideologies had captured the Western educational system.<\/span><\/p>\n Groups like the ADL had been solely focused on the threat from right-wing antisemitism, which played no role in the post-Oct. 7 meltdown of academia, as well as in trying to link Trump to Jew-hatred. What\u2019s more, they had\u00a0endorsed<\/a>\u00a0left-wing extremists like the Black Lives Matter movement, who were linked to Jew-hatred and even\u00a0incorporated<\/a>\u00a0woke ideas like intersectionality. As a result, they were unprepared to view their erstwhile allies on the left as the primary threat to Jewish safety, as well as the engine driving the demonization of Israel. And as a result, their desultory efforts to cope with this problem were predictably ineffective.<\/span><\/p>\n Yet in contrast to the groups that are supposed to be the first line of defense against antisemitism, it has been the Trump administration, despised by Jewish liberals, that has stepped into the breach.<\/span><\/p>\n Trump has gone on the offensive on the issue,\u00a0targeting<\/a>\u00a0elite institutions like Columbia, Harvard and Brown universities, some in the California state system, as well as a host of other schools as they have sought to force their administrators to ditch DEI.<\/span><\/p>\n The woke mindset that has become the new orthodoxy in academia is aimed at tearing down the canon of Western civilization and indoctrinating young people\u2014K-12 up to the college level\u2014into believing that America is an irredeemably racist nation. But in the DEI hierarchy of minorities who deserve protection, despite millennia of persecution and a rising tide of hate directed against them, the Jews don\u2019t count. More to the point, the leftist orthodoxy seeks to deny and erase Jewish history, ignoring the fact that Jews are the indigenous people of the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, to falsely label them as foreign colonial invaders of their own ancient homeland.<\/span><\/p>\n That\u2019s not to say that mainstream groups like the ADL and Hillel, whose jobs are, respectively, to defend the Jewish people against antisemitism and to provide a variety of services and support for college students, weren\u2019t interested in the issues of hatred and bigotry. But the former was compromised by its transformation from a Jewish defense group into a partisan liberal advocacy group under its current leader, CEO and national director, Jonathan Greenblatt. And the latter had become far too interested in being inclusive and non-confrontational to effectively deal with the threat of radical leftist groups.<\/span><\/p>\n Most importantly, both they and other mainstream Jewish groups were simply not interested in discussing the root cause of the problem that would unfold after Oct. 7. The progressive capture of academia had led to the incorporation of toxic left-wing myths like critical race theory, intersectionality and settler-colonialism, often by university faculty.<\/span><\/p>\n For the liberals who ran most of the organized Jewish world, these were just culture-war slogans thrown about by conservatives. Instead of understanding that these Marxist ideas were inextricably linked to the demonization of Jews and Israel, they ignored the implications of the progressives\u2019 long march through the institutions of higher education. They simply didn\u2019t realize that the national obsession with race that reached its peak during the BLM summer of 2020, after the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, was not a cause that all good liberals needed to get behind. It was, instead, a turning point for American Jews, in which those unwilling to disavow support for Israel suddenly found themselves abandoned by former allies and largely ostracized in places like academia, where the left predominates. As the third academic year since Oct. 7 begins, as a result of Trump\u2019s credible threats to defund all institutions of higher education that won\u2019t adopt far tougher policies against antisemitism than those proposed by the four major Jewish groups, the situation for Jews on campuses might be improving. Most college administrators have gotten the message. They know that a continuation of policies in which they treat those advocating for violence against Jews differently from the way they treat those who similarly target other minorities, like African-Americans and Hispanics, will get them into a world of trouble with the federal government and cost them funding they can ill afford to lose.<\/span><\/p>\n So deep-seated is the animosity to the president, as well as to congressional Republicans like Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), that these mainstream Jewish groups are still standing aloof, claiming to be active in the fight against Jew-hatred while also lending tacit support to the efforts of the same schools to fend off Trump\u2019s pressure. Stefanik\u00a0exposed<\/a>\u00a0the willingness to wink at or rationalize Jew-hatred on campus when questioning the presidents of Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania, who testified before Congress in December 2023\u2014just two months after Oct. 7\u2014and hearing them say that it depended on the \u201ccontext\u201d as to whether advocacy for Jewish genocide broke their schools\u2019 rules.<\/span><\/p>\n The notion that campus antisemitism can be stopped without taking on DEI and defunding those schools that refuse to comply isn\u2019t just misguided. It\u2019s a sign that liberal Jewish groups do not comprehend the nature of the threat to Jewish kids and are willing to leave in place the factor that has done most to put them at risk.<\/span><\/p>\n Not everyone in the Jewish world agrees with this wrong-headed approach.<\/span><\/p>\n Two groups that are part of the Conference disagreed with its concurrence with the ADL, Hillel and the Jewish Federation.<\/span><\/p>\n Kurt Schwartz, CEO of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA), said: \u201cWe welcome the joint statement calling attention to the growing problem of campus antisemitism. But the truth is that antisemitism on campus is not only a matter of ignorance. It is being legitimized and institutionalized through certain DEI frameworks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n He went on to note that \u201cthese programs often falsely classify Jews as privileged \u2018white oppressors\u2019 and Israel as a symbol of colonialism, effectively erasing Jewish history and identity. In practice, DEI offices frequently ignore antisemitic harassment, exclude Jewish voices, and provide platforms for anti-Israel activism masquerading as social justice. Unless universities directly confront and reform these programs, Jewish students will remain targets of bias and hostility. An effective strategy must therefore include the overhaul or abolishment of DEI structures that perpetuate this anti-intellectual and illiberal climate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The Zionist Organization of America agreed. Its national president, Morton Klein, and director of research and special projects, Elizabeth Berney, complained that the Conference\u2019s leadership had signed off on what they described as a \u201cweak\u201d and \u201cinadequate\u201d ADL statement without consulting its members. They further noted that \u201cmany of ADL\u2019s recommendations either entirely omit or only hint at strong responses that are needed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n They also pointed out that the DEI programs that the statement ignored \u201cdiscriminate against Jews and teach discriminatory concepts such as \u2018white privilege.\u2019\u201d Among those necessary measures that the ADL also failed to mention was \u201cthe need for expelling anti-Jewish violent and hate-inciting students and faculty; banning anti-Jewish hate groups; or vetting and reporting foreign Jew-hating and Jew-harassing students to immigration authorities; and bringing law enforcement onto campus whenever necessary.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Both of these groups are right.<\/span><\/p>\n But as with other\u00a0examples<\/a>\u00a0of Jewish organizations, such as the American Jewish Committee, as well as the Conservative and Reform denominations\u2019 opposition to the administration\u2019s policies, the liberal establishment is prepared to sacrifice the needs of Jewish students to avoid being on the same side of the issue as Trump. That\u2019s more than a mistake. It\u2019s a betrayal of their missions that demonstrates that they value their political alliances with leftist-dominated institutions more than Jewish safety and solidarity with Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n In the coming months, with a growing chorus of corporate media outlets, Democratic politicians and leftist ideologues mainstreaming blood libels about Israel committing genocide and deliberately causing starvation in Gaza, Jewish students may find themselves again under siege, despite the administration\u2019s efforts. This is a time when the Jewish establishment should be doing everything it can to influence those running colleges and universities to heed Trump\u2019s warnings. They should be cheering on efforts to force them to end DEI-based hiring, admissions and indoctrination policies that inevitably lead to the kind of antisemitism we\u2019ve seen on campus. Instead, they are giving aid and comfort to those who think Trump\u2019s efforts can be defeated, and that the woke ideologues will be left in place to continue to target Jews and indoctrinate even more Americans to hate Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> . The Jewish establishment is still failing on campus antisemitism Jonathan S. Tobin Unlike the Trump administration\u2019s efforts, those who purport to represent the community are ignoring the issue of DEI-based Jew-hatred, the root cause of the problem. 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\nUnlike the Trump administration\u2019s efforts, those who purport to represent the community are ignoring the issue of DEI-based Jew-hatred, the root cause of the problem.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators regroup and rebuild barricades surrounding the encampment set up on the campus of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) as clashes erupt with counter protesters, in Los Angeles on May 1, 2024. Photo by Etienne Laurent\/AFP via Getty Images.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nThe DEI factor<\/strong><\/h4>\n
A compromised Jewish establishment<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Pro-Palestinian student protesters and activists dance during a rally at an encampment on the campus of Brown University in Providence, R.I., on April 29, 2024. Photo by Joseph Prezioso\/AFP via Getty Images<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\nHostility to Trump<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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<\/span>Jonathan S. Tobin<\/strong> is editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Syndicate, a senior contributor for The Federalist, a columnist for Newsweek and a contributor to many other publications. He covers the American political scene, foreign policy, the U.S.-Israel relationship, Middle East diplomacy, the Jewish world and the arts. He hosts the JNS \u201cThink Twice\u201d podcast, both the weekly video program and the \u201cJonathan Tobin Daily\u201d program, which are available on all major audio platforms and YouTube. Previously, he was executive editor, then senior online editor and chief political blogger, for Commentary magazine. Before that, he was editor-in-chief of The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. He has won more than 60 awards for commentary, art criticism and other writing. He appears regularly on television, commenting on politics and foreign policy. Born in New York City, he studied history at Columbia University.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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