This hollowing out of academia’s ideals– such as excellence, meritocracy, diversity of views and the search for truth— has hit the Jews especially hard.
Nothing riles up the world quite like modern Jews who have the chutzpah to defend themselves.
This will turn the tables on the Jew-haters. Instead of seeing “white Jews” make the case for Israel, they will see “brown Arabs” telling them how lucky they are to live in the Jewish state.
For the Jewish community at least, it’s hard to recall a year that has triggered (and continues to trigger) as many emotions, especially for those of us who are close to Israel.
Have you noticed how the worst mass horrors in the world are led by men?
These security threats have been so all-consuming, and the human losses so devastating, settling for simply survival would seem to only compound the losses.
The only miracles we should settle for are the sober, humble ones; the miracles where we must slowly and deliberately light one lonely candle at a time.
It is this quintessential Jewish idea—refusing to settle for easy victimhood—that most threatens the anti-America, victim-worshipping DEI movement that is poisoning American culture.
This Jewish trait drives Jew haters nuts because it’s not land-related, it has nothing to do with race or skin color, and it goes directly against the leftist narrative of Jews as the ultimate white oppressors.
In the past few weeks, a crack has opened in American academia, exposing a poison that undermines the very ideals of higher education: political ideology.
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