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The summer of 2020 is officially over. It will always be remembered as the summer of COVID-19 and of a painful period of national introspection about race. I certainly can claim no expertise on the issue of race. However, after years of arduous study and advocacy on the issue of anti-Semitism and of bias in our nation’s school systems, I have to reach the unfortunate conclusion that there does exist systemic anti-Semitism throughout the United States, particularly in our nation’s universities.
For decades now, behind the ivory covered towers of our universities, there has been a well-documented bias against Israel and the United States, particularly in our nation’s Middle East Studies Programs, as is well documented in Martin Kramer’s seminal book, “Ivory Towers on Sand.” This has led to one-sided politicization of an entire discipline, where paltry propaganda has been substituted (at the taxpayer’s expense), for a good, well-rounded education.
This tendency has become even more pronounced, as of late, because of the phenomena of “cancel culture,” where there is an implicit rigid orthodoxy of “acceptable thought.” Our students are the real losers here. Today’s university experience is a far cry from John Stuart Mill’s description as “the marketplace of ideas.”
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