This week we have been witness to the greatest atrocities and mass slaughter perpetrated against Jews since the Holocaust. Sickeningly, on many of your campuses, events are being held to support those who carried out this savagery and to blame the victims, innocent Israelis.

As a child of a Holocaust survivor in whose memory I write, I have spent my life trying to understand how such a heinous crime against humanity could have happened. The short answer is that the groundwork needs to be carefully laid. There are clear-cut steps, outlined by Natan Sharansky and others, that turn regular people into anti-Semitic vessels of hate and rage.

And, dear Presidents, your respective institutions have been complicit in accommodating this toxic process on your campuses for far too long.

[Read it all, and be sure to read the introduction by my friend Scott Johnson. Might I suggest that the title could have also included “And American Media.” — Ed]