The anti-Semites at Harvard

 NY Post:

Harvard University has admitted the ugly truth: The left’s long march through its faculty and administration has borne poisonous fruit in the form of blazing Jew-hatred and the overall ruin of its campus climate and curricula.

Don’t take our word for it: Just read the elite Ivy’s own report on the Tentifada that sprang up in support of Hamas after Oct. 7.

The committee tasked with looking into this antisemitic conflagration detailed how over decades what began as a tense, even rancorous zone of disagreement on campus — specifically, over Israel’s efforts to defend itself from terrorist aggression and the national aims of various Palestinian political factions — changed into an “attempt by student activists to drive Israeli students (and Jewish students who feel connected to Israel) out of student life.”

This process was in train well before Oct. 7, and results (to use the words of a faculty member the report cautiously cites) from a “general shift of power from regular faculty and to para-academic administrators” that “has played an outsized role in the politicization and radicalization of academia and its intellectual and reputational decline.”

In short, Harvard has suffered “an ideological effort underway to weaken the post-World War II social consensus that antisemitism is a form of bias” along with “politicized instruction that mainstreams and normalizes” Jew- and Israel-hate (though the school couches this in a dodge: i.e., “what many Jewish and Israeli students experience as antisemitism and anti-Israeli bias”).
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I have never understood what motivates Jew hatred.  I have had Jewish friends since before I started school.  I recall wonderful Jewish neighbors living next door to my family when I was in grade school.  The guy owned a clothing store in Lepanto, Arkansas, that did a brisk business when the Mexican workers were in town to help with the cotton harvests.  I think that is where I bought my Levis back then.  There were Jewish students in school with me that I was friends with.  When we moved to the Rio Grande Valley while I was in high school, there was a Jewish banker in town, and his wife was one of my favorite teachers in high school.  I also had Jewish friends at the University of Texas.  I worked with several Jewish lawyers during my legal career.  One of my law firm partners was a burly Irishman who was adopted by a Jewish family when he was a kid.