Writer David Suissa suggests this is necessary and he makes some good points.
From the Jewish Journal:
We Need a Jewish “Insurrection” to Combat Campus AntisemitismWhenever we hear terms like “insurrection,” we assume it comes from oppressed Palestinian victims of Israeli aggression.On U.S. college campuses, however, the oppressed victims are not Palestinians but Jewish faculty and students, and the oppressors are not Jews but the overwhelming majority of faculty who sympathize with Palestinians and indoctrinate students to hate Israel.This became clear to me when I saw the latest initiative from AMCHA to combat faculty antisemitism. To give you a sense of how widespread the oppression is against Jews, AMCHA’s first target will be the Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP), a network of 170 faculty chapters established after the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7 that murdered 1200 Israelis.Think about that: Israelis are massacred in Israel, and a movement begins in America on 170 college campuses whose sole purpose is to target Israel.“The primary mission of FJP,” AMCHA said in its announcement, “is to exploit their academic positions and departmental resources to actively promote the academic boycott of Israel (academic BDS) by engaging in actions to rid their campuses of Zionism and Zionists, shut down educational opportunities and stifle free speech.”The growing power of FJP and other anti-Israel groups is not a coincidence. It can be traced directly to a huge influx of overseas money into these universities. According to a 2022 study, for example, Qatar contributed $4.7 billion to dozens of academic institutions across the United States between 2001 and 2021.In an ongoing research project started in 2012 titled “Follow the Money,” ISGAP examined “illicit funding of United States universities by foreign governments, foundations and corporations that adhere to and promote anti-democratic and antisemitic ideologies, with connections to terrorism and terror financing.”The research revealed “the existence of substantial Middle Eastern funding (primarily from Qatar) to US universities that had not been reported to the Department of Education (DoED), as required by law.”The point is this: The movement to oppress Jews and undermine Israel on college campuses is big, widespread and mainstream. Against such a juggernaut, groups like AMCHA are not just activists but feisty insurrectionists, a term I first heard from my friend UCLA Professor Judea Pearl.
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