What is going on in Gaza right now is not genocide, an easy, grievance-laden word to fall back on when facts are inconvenient.

Israel is a miracle, one earned through enormous sacrifice. 

This is why Persian Jews warn continuously of the evils of radical Islam — we know how it can destroy once-thriving societies until they are unrecognizable, and we know the way this destruction can spread.

Wilcox’s capitulation is not an isolated event or even surprising. Rather, it is the culmination of a long series of failures by the administration to protect the rights of Jewish students.

All these faculty members can see are Israeli offenses, only Israeli offenses, out of their context, which they see as aggressions and describe using such inflammatory language as “apartheid” and “Jewish supremacy.”

Jews are the only people who are objects of hatred by three very distinct groups of people: the far right, the far left, and radical Islamists. Antisemitism is the most contradictory and ubiquitous hatred. It is everything, everywhere, all at once.

What will really restore civility is not regulating the internet but spending less time on it. Victor Gruen was right; humans need to mingle with other humans.