DEI Policies in Higher Education Inspire Hatred of Jews
“this worldview has given anti-Semites a pseudo-intellectual and seemingly moral framework through which to spew their hatred”
What we have witnessed on college campuses over the last few weeks shows this to be true.
From City Journal:
How DEI Inspires Jew Hatred
Hell hath no fury like a donor scorned.
In recent days, numerous generous supporters have withdrawn or threatened to withdraw financial support from the University of Pennsylvania, where I used to teach. The list includes former U.S. ambassador Jon Huntsman, hedge-fund tycoon Cliff Asness, and Estee Lauder heir Ronald Lauder, to name a few. They’re furious over Penn’s pathetic response to anti-Semitism on campus following Hamas’s barbaric terrorist attack on Israel. The same thing is happening at other prominent schools, especially Harvard.
The donors should be angry, but withholding money won’t make much difference. Donors need to demand concrete reforms—especially rolling back the all-pervasive “diversity, equity, and inclusion” regime that gives cover to and encourages anti-Semites.
I say this as a former associate dean and professor at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, where I worked for 53 years, and as a Jewish person. For decades, I saw the hateful shenanigans that are, sadly, endemic to every prestigious university—the constant student protests against Israeli occupation; the fake graves representing dead Palestinians, including terrorists, suddenly appearing on campus overnight; and more.
After DEI took hold at Penn, anti-Semitic fervor on campus intensified. At first glance, DEI seems to have little connection to the Jewish people or the Jewish state. It is more often associated with efforts to recruit more minority students by lowering admissions standards, creating racially discriminatory scholarships, and setting racial quotas. While I witnessed all that and more before my retirement from Penn in 2021, I also came to see that subscribing to DEI almost inevitably resulted in attacking Jews.
True, anti-Semitism existed long before the establishment of the first university DEI office. But this worldview has given anti-Semites a pseudo-intellectual and seemingly moral framework through which to spew their hatred.
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Comments
And yet the idiotic American Jews will keep vying for admission because they’re mirin’s.
And they’ll continue sending these places money for tuition and room and board and fees Why because they’re morons
Just morons
As if it is absolutely beyond their cognitive abilities to think of any possible alternative pathway to an education and a successful life
Like I said — morons.
DIE: Division, Intolerance, Exclusion.