The government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu bears no responsibility for the outbreak of the epidemic of anti-Semitism in American academia, especially in prestigious universities. This mental illness clung to humanity before Jesus of Nazareth came into the world. It basically expressed the rage of idolatry at belief in one God.
Although Christian sin has been proven throughout history, it continues to arouse interest in research. Dr. Nathan Ron's book Erasmus and the Jews: Humanism and Anti-Semitism in the Early Modern Era appeared. The intellectual Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam was considered the prince of humanists, and although scholars who preceded him were found, the searing truth was and remains that he despised Jews, especially Jews who converted to Christianity. In their racism, he and others like him believed that a Jew could not convert with integrity. When a convert to Johann Pfefferkorn carried out the sentence that he was "more Catholic than the Pope," and demanded that the writings of the Jews and the Hebrew language be burned, Christian intellectuals such as Johannes Reuchlin rose up to stop him.
European anti-Semitism was, as at all times, an axiom. Not so in the United States (although Harvard was plagued by discrimination against Jews). American Jews believed that their country was different. From the outset, it had (almost) no anti-Jewish laws. Ostensibly, they were born into the defense of justice in the U.S. Constitution. So how did it happen that in the enlightened American university a great animosity developed towards the Jews? There were elements of it at home.
The American far right, the Ku Klux Klan, engaged in pogroms against Jews; Many African-Americans arrived "tainted" at home, and the Jews who supported Martin Luther King's struggle to dissolve the hostile attitude toward them were unable to dissolve; And after the Six-Day War – as after the massacre in the Gaza envelope in 2023 – the justified circumstances of Israel's victory were forgotten, and academia focused on the consequences of controlling Palestinian areas. The connection between these elements in American society endangers the strategic alliance with Israel and the status of American Jews.
Anti-Semitism at Harvard and its daughters testified to the depth of the danger. Not with the indifference of their management in the first round, but precisely when their three presidents were investigated in the House of Representatives and their carefully selected responses indicated that they had no intention of working to eradicate anti-Semitism from universities. The show on Capitol Hill, perhaps more than the Palestinian-anti-Semitic hate demonstrations on campuses, testified to the magnitude of the danger.
Academia is a central pillar in ensuring Israel's qualitative superiority in the region. Jews have understood this since the early establishment of Hebrew in Jerusalem and the Technion in Haifa. It is the defensive wall in the international arena immediately after the IDF. The arena on the Harvard campus, following the breached fence in Bari - both have been abandoned, and the danger is proven
The evil and emergency did not stop there. In an interview with Lior Datel in Haaretz, renowned scientists such as Prof. Rivka Carmi, Rachel Alterman and Manuel Trajtenberg warned that this situation has already given rise to – and continues to – a covert boycott of cooperation with Israel. As in the past, its researchers are not invited to conferences and are discriminated against in publishing articles in scientific journals, and budgets dry up. In general, Western democratic academia has overcome its rivals by being open and cooperative, but Israel, which is under academic siege, is deteriorating to a disadvantage by expelling it. The first expression of the danger was demonstrated when Netanyahu agreed to give up European financial aid to academia in Judea and Samaria in disgrace.
Academia is a central pillar in ensuring Israel's qualitative superiority in the region. Jews have understood this since the early establishment of Hebrew in Jerusalem and the Technion in Haifa. It is the defensive wall in the international arena immediately after the IDF. The arena on the Harvard campus, following the breached fence in Bari - both have been abandoned, and the danger is proven.
There were waves of hatred on both continents. The evil of the Palestinians and their collaborators is compounded on the academic level by a liberal, mostly Reform, educated Jewish element that is sympathetic to Israel but rejects its current existence. An intellectual who grew up with the U.S. Constitution cannot accept the Nation-State Law that puts minority citizens at a disadvantage, or refuses to talk to an enemy. This goes against the American ethos, and adds lovers of Israel to the camp of its haters. If not in practice then passively. They no longer come to her defense, and some become "more Catholic than the Pope."
Wrong? We'll fix it! If you find a mistake in the article, please share with us