In the name of rejecting hate, colleges built their DEI bureaucracies in the first place and allowed bureaucrats and their faculty sympathizers to put certain facts and ideas off-limits. In the name of rejecting hate, colleges started requiring faculty—even in the hard sciences—to justify their research in the name of “inclusion” and “belonging.” Protected identity categories have constantly expanded while the haters shrank to an ever smaller subset of white males.

The real issue on campuses isn’t antisemitism but the anti-Western ethos that has colonized large swaths of the curriculum. Elite schools once disdained Jews because they were seen as outsiders to Western civilization. Now they are reviled as that civilization’s very embodiment. Students explain that their hatreds come from what they learn in class—that the West is built on white supremacism and oppression. Israel is cast as the Western settler-colonialist oppressor par excellence. …

Solving the problems of higher ed requires rejecting this victim ideology wholesale.

[This is absolutely true, and will be difficult to achieve because of the incentives in an already corrupt Academia. I predict that DEI policies will now juggle Jews up to a higher level of victimhood in the short run to get past the present crisis in Woke Inc, and then return them to the bottom of the totem pole when safe to do so. — Ed]