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Why the Woke Anti-Semitism?
What exactly explains the campus hypocrisy and moral vacuity that fuels both DEI and anti-Semitism?
Ideology? Woke politics?
Certainly, a woke curriculum is a twofold sin, one of both commission and omission. By destroying rigorous courses and then replacing them with dreary partisan hectoring, it has made students ever more arrogant as they become ever more ignorant.
But do not forget that finger-in-the-wind campus administrators also count heads.
Under their new reparatory admissions, so-called whites make up only 20-40 percent of incoming classes, and as a result Jews are increasingly scarce at tony universities. Faculty DEI hiring matches the emerging student profile.
In addition, foreign students pay full tuition and are courted, especially those with petro-fueled scholarships.
The transcendent DEI/cultural Marxist ideology that has absorbed the curricula and culture of campuses postulates a bifurcated, victim/victimizer reductionism: Israelis and Jews are Western, white, and successful—and thus hated, while their supposed victims are not, and are thus sympathetic.
Ergo, there is an increasing hostility of DEI toward Jews.
We saw that with the disproportionate number of faculty who were self-described marginalized people and blasted Israel, praised Hamas’s murdering, or intimidated their Jewish students. The infamous BLM glider poster simply summed up the ideology of BLM and its affiliates.
Campus administrators, increasingly the recipients of billions of dollars from the Middle East, count heads. And there are a mere 9 million Israelis and 16 million Jews worldwide who are the objects of venom from a hostile half-billion-person Arab Middle East and a 2-billion-person Islamic world.
Add in the new Democratic Party, the campus’s uniparty: its left-wing, anti-Israeli, and in practice anti-Semitic, wing believes it is in ascendance and is felt by others to be so, especially on campuses.
Most campus administrators are transient, always moving and scheming to be promoted to a higher title at a university perceived as more prestigious. So, they make the necessary adjustments and do not wish to tamper with their DEI credentials—and thus endanger their careerism—by defending Israel and Jews.
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