Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League, who is on the left himself and taught at UCLA, cannot understand why his fellow “tolerant” leftists are willing to tolerate racism at this scale. And Greenblatt is now saying that the ADL is going to start “going after” colleges and universities on Title VI grounds if academia doesn’t shape up, as the ADL keeps hearing from students about the radical and growing anti-Semitism on college campuses.
At this point, Greenblatt should just be getting the lawyers revved up. The administrations on college and university campuses have proven themselves to be weak and feckless when it comes to protecting Jewish students. They would never be so cowardly when it comes to defending any other group.
[As Wilford Brimley said in ‘Absence of Malice,” “Wonderful thing, subpoenas.” I doubt that the lawsuits themselves would do anything more than increase the lip service that campus administrations pay Jewish students these days, as long as they’re aimed at the universities themselves. Maybe aim some at the donors, and at the individual administrators, and then we’ll see some incentives change. — Ed]
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