There are numerous signs that college anti-Zionism is reverberating off campus. As the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish wrote: "we are lucky that Israel is our enemy, because Jews are the center of the world."
Even some Jewish Studies courses primarily criticize the Jewish State.įurther, classic conspiracy theories about Israel's evil global reach now pop up across the humanities and social sciences. It is virtually impossible to find a class in Middle Eastern Studies that does not demonize Israel as settler colonialist, apartheid, or Nazi. Or they claim Jewish philanthropy is used to oppress non-Jews (a tome written by a leader of the Association of Jewish Studies). Other academics publish that Jewish organizations control university appointments through their covert power, silencing critics of Israel. In peer reviewed academic books, Israel is at various times reported to use bio-technology to systemically hack the DNA of Palestinians to partially starve them, to engage in secret organ harvesting, to train police around the world to oppress people of color. Santiago/Getty ImagesĪs I document in my recent book, Conspiracy U, professors in the humanities and social sciences are now overwhelmingly anti-Israel. People attend a rally denouncing anti-Semitic violence in Cedarhurst, New York. They persist long after students have left the classroom, seeding a virulent, old/new form of hatred that is infiltrating American society. Yet as someone who has been monitoring the alarming normalization of hatred towards Israel- and by extension, Jews-on the American college campus, I am distressed that the Jewish communal world has not noticed these sentiments have an afterlife. Efforts such as StandwithUs' letter campaign to colleges has also enjoyed high visibility. Some of the most effective groups are StandWithUs, Jewish on Campus, Hasbara Fellowships, Club Z, and many others. Of course, campus-based anti-Zionism is on the Jewish communal radar screen and a host of organizations and initiatives have sprung up over the past two decades to combat it. There is no other minority group that the University of Vermont administrators dare to victim blame. This has the effect of cancelling its Jewish students' concerns. Shockingly, in response to a federal investigation, the University of Vermont recently decided to officially pivot to blaming Jews as it brazenly denied it has an antisemitism or anti-Zionism problem. The assaults ranged from to the distribution of hate packages to pelting Jewish fraternities with eggs to painting swastikas. At the University of Michigan, Rutgers University, and American University anti-Jewish hatred manifested itself during the two days of Rosh Hashanah. Anti-Jewish hatred on campus is off to a quick start this academic year.
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