Is it wrong to say we are losing the war against Jew hatred in the hallowed halls of academia?
Three things occurred this past week that indicate we are. Losing, that is.
Just watch a roundtable discussion on a popular podcast with young Americans and hear what they had to say about Jews.
Here are some excerpts:
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- The Holocaust was the only way he [Hitler] could take out a huge population, like a huge amount of Jews all in one setting.
- Hitler had to do what he had to do.
- They was up to something so Hitler had to take them out.
- They’re sitting here stealing from the American people.
- How do we take them down? Kill the m-f’ers.
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If you can’t believe what you’re reading, I have two words for you. Believe it.
There are no words for the hatred these young Americans have in their hearts and in minds toward Jews.
This isn’t country club antisemitism. We’re not even talking about Israel, Hamas or the Palestinians. This is deep-seated, down and dirty Jew hate. And it’s scary.
Hitler had to do what he had to do. They’re sitting here stealing from the American people. Kill the m-f’ers.
This antisemitism is not just coming from the bottom up.
This past week, the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers union representing nearly three million public school teachers and education workers, outlined its priorities in its 2025 handbook.
The NEA says it will promote the celebration of international Holocaust Remembrance Day (by) recognizing more than 12 million victims of the Holocaust that came from different faiths, ethnicities, races, political beliefs, genders, and gender identification, abilities/disabilities, and other targeted characteristics.
Notice anyone missing?
Need another second or two?
No mention of, you guessed it, Jews. Just take the Jews out of any teaching of the Holocaust. Forget teaching about the final solution to the Jewish question. Ignore the diabolical and meticulous transfer of Jews from every corner of Nazi occupied Europe to concentration camps where they were gassed, starved or worked to death.
According to the NEA, the Holocaust was about anyone and everyone, oh, and maybe also the Jews.
Even those young haters acknowledged that the Holocaust was the only way he [Hitler] could take out a huge population, like a huge amount of Jews all in one setting!
But in that same handbook, the NEA wrote a lot about plans to educate its members and the general public on, what the Palestinians call, the Nakba, or catastrophe, following the establishment of the State of Israel.
NEA will use existing digital communication tools to educate members and the general public about the history of the Pal-
estinian Nakba. The Nakba…refers to the forced, violent displacement and dispossession of at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland in 1948 during the establishment of the state of Israel. Educating about the Nakba is essential for understanding the Palestinian diaspora narrative and experience, including the ongoing trauma of our Palestinian American students today. Teaching about the Nakba fosters critical thinking and empathy among students, promoting a deeper understanding of historical injustices and their contemporary ramifications.
So is it any wonder why we’ve seen what we’ve seen on American college campuses?
And that brings me to the third event of this past week.
Columbia University agreed to a sweeping settlement with the Trump administration from allegations it didn’t do enough to stop the harassment of its Jewish students.
Columbia agreed to pay a $200 million fine to the feds and $20 million to Jewish employees who were discriminated against during the anti-Israel and antisemitic demonstrations and encampments following October 7th. In return, Columbia got back its access to hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grant money.
Also this past week, Columbia threw the book at more than 70 pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel and anti-American students who took over Butler Library during finals week. Some were suspended, some were expelled. Long overdue, I’d say.
This past week, former Columbia professor Shai Davidai, who was so outspoken in his defense of Israel and of Columbia’s Jewish students during the months of hatred on the Morningside Heights campus, penned an op-ed about the belated crackdown.
Davidai said, Columbia, like many North American universities, has become a breeding ground for…American intellectual antisemitism, a belief system that casts Jews as white settler-colonialists conspiring to ethnically cleanse Palestinians in an effort to create a Jewish supremacist ethnostate…Unless Columbia directly confronts the professors who indoctrinate students into this worldview, its crisis will only deepen.
The phenomenon of antisemitic young Americans is bubbling up from below and it is being aided and abetted from above, from the likes of the NEA and Ivy League professors. It is pervasive and it is perverse.
I’m with Shai who wrote, It’s time to confront the academic machinery that fuels this hatred and dismantle it at the source.
If we don’t, there will be no end to the generations who say, kill the motherfuckers.