In case you have any doubt that anti-semitism is still hot and heavy in the Ivy league schools – among many others – read the beginning of Emma Colton’s article at Fox News and know better:
Jewish high schoolers in New York City were warned against applying to Cornell University over the school’s reported failure to protect Jewish students from repeated instances of antisemitism, Fox News Digital has learned.
“As a national network of alumni dedicated to countering antisemitism on campus, we felt an obligation to warn prospective Jewish students and their families about Cornell’s failure to protect our community,” Avi Gordon, executive director of Alums for Campus Fairness, said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
Alums for Campus Fairness sent brochures to all high schools in the New York City metro area this month, arguing “Cornell refuses to enforce the student code of conduct, fostering a hostile climate that endangers Jewish students.”
“Considering Cornell? Cornell is not a safe place for Jewish students,” the group’s brochure added. The brochures were styled to look like promotional materials sent by the university to prospective students, according to Alums for Campus Fairness.
Last year, the Department of Education opened investigations into a handful of colleges over claims of discrimination on campus, including three Ivy Leagues: Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. The House Ways and Means Committee also announced a probe into four elite universities in January over their handling of campus antisemitism, including: Cornell, Penn, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
On Cornell’s campus, Fox News Digital reported last year that professor of history and self-identified “secular Marxist” Russell Rickford was accused of “justifying terror” after describing the war in Israel as “exhilarating.”
A Cornell student, 21-year-old Patrick Dai, was also arrested in October after allegedly posting threatening messages on a Greek life message board.
“Watch out pig jews. jihad is coming. nowhere is safe. your synagogue will become graveyards. your women will be raped and your children will be beheaded. glory to Allah,” Dai allegedly wrote Oct. 28, according to a criminal complaint.
Does what you just read, and the fact that neither Cornell nor any of the other schools involved have done anything appreciable about the overt, in-your-face anti-semitism on their campuses – student body and faculty both – tell you something? I would like to think it does.
After almost 58 centuries, it seems pretty improbable that it just sort of went away – even in the United States, which, at least until recently, has been one of the few relatively safe countries for Jews.
But as the hard left – more than any other population segment because, these days, they have the numbers – continues to separate us – and judge us – by race, gender and religion, it stands to reason that there are going to be casualties. And Jewishness, as usual, is right at the top of the list.
The United States is rapidly turning into a country I do not recognize. And I am becoming less and less confident that it can reverse course and come back.
Please may I be wrong about this.
