Jews on College Campuses Are Being Told Their Zionism is ‘Disqualifying’
“For many Jews, that means an aspect of their own identity makes them persona non grata in spaces where left-wing views are paramount.”
This is a problem that American higher education is eventually going to have to face.
The Washington Examiner reports:
The new loyalty oath imposed on Jews
On college campuses, in progressive organizing spaces, in some professional contexts, and even among friends, Americans are increasingly being told their Zionism is disqualifying. For many Jews, that means an aspect of their own identity makes them persona non grata in spaces where left-wing views are paramount. For non-Jews, maintaining until-recently mainstream, pro-Israel opinions means risking social stigmatization and professional harm. Although this problem has begun to gain some visibility, it’s time Americans understood the extent of the social pressure to self-censor or else face the mob.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Jews keeping their Zionism hush-hush weren’t eager to be interviewed. However, 32 Jewish and non-Jewish students and young alumni, academics, communal and advocacy group figures, governmental leaders, activists, and creatives contributed to this article. Taken together, what follows is a portrait of profound societal changes.
These changes, it must be noted, affect all Jews in these spaces because they are greeted with suspicions and assumptions about their support for Israel that they must either dispel or confirm. And this manifests in various ways.
In 2015, University of California, Los Angeles, student Rachel Beyda was expecting to be confirmed without incident to the student council’s judicial board but was met with a bizarre question from a member of the council: “Given that you are a Jewish student and very active in the Jewish community,” Beyda was asked, “how do you see yourself being able to maintain an unbiased view?” After a lengthy discussion of Beyda’s Jewish identity, from which Beyda was excluded, her nomination was voted down. (This was only reversed when a faculty adviser to the council stepped in.)
The incidents that make national headlines give the public a rare window into the discrimination regularly wielded in left-of-center institutions.
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I simply don’t understand how leftists can decry Nazis on the one hand, and then turn around and behave like Nazis. Is it because they’re ok with fascism as long as it comes from Marx? I guess they just ignore the fact that Hitler’s Mien Kampf heavily plagiarized Marx’s Essay “On The Jewish Question”. Oh the hypocrisy stinks to the heavens.
Because Islam is elevated and Islam was a semi-silent partner with the Nazis during WW2.
And the American Jewish establishment says and does nothing as it strives to be woke in all areas