Damning report on Jew-hatred at NYC colleges reveals left’s ugly anti-Semitic core

NYU, Columbia College and Brooklyn Faculty all obtained a low score from an anti-Semitism watchdog group.
Helayne Seidman

A brand new report reveals the ugly depth of anti-Semitism at elite faculties and universities round New York, simply in time for the Excessive Holy Days. 

Three main establishments of upper studying — Columbia College, New York College and CUNY’s Brooklyn Faculty — all earned F rankings, the bottom attainable, from a watchdog group devoted to calling out anti-Semitism. 

Jewish college students on these campuses, per the report, really feel the administration doesn’t do sufficient to make sure their security, certainly really feel the necessity to cover each their Jewish id and their help for Israel — as if they have been residing not in twenty first century New York however Nazi Germany or the USSR. 

Sadly, this surprises nobody. The bare latest hostility to Jews present in New York’s instructional establishments stretches from Columbia President Lee Bollinger’s 2007 invitation to Iran’s then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the 2022 CUNY Faculty of Regulation graduation handle by Nerdeen Kiswani,who has endorsed violence in opposition to “Zionists” and is a high determine at a company dedicated to the eradication of Israel, Inside Our Lifetime (which has additionally been banned from Instagram for hate speech). 

And the American left’s political superstars — Reps. Rashida Tlaib, AOC, Ilhan Omar, and others — have helped respectable the hate. Omar famously invoked an anti-Semitic trope in attacking US pro-Israel teams;Tlaib’s much more nakedly anti-Semitic, asserting just lately, “You can not declare to carry progressives values but again Israel’s apartheid authorities” and dealing with a Holocaust-denying fund-raiser.

Morally hideous, with out query. However the true horror is simply how unsurprising it’s all turn out to be. The left’s normalization of Jew-hatred can have, if left unchecked, tragic penalties (New York was already No. 1 in anti-Semitic hate crimes nationwide final 12 months). 

Mainstream Dems like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, to say nothing of the broader media and educational institutions, must be preventing like hell in opposition to this development. That they’re not reveals all their moralizing round inclusion as cynical — and harmful — posturing.