The ‘Jewish problem’ on university campuses. With the Israeli government’s war on Hamas, antisemitism has risen at universities. Why? Dara Horn, (Dara Horn, “Why the most educated people in America fall for Anti-semitic lies,
The essay is a must read for anyone concerned about the hatred’s rising out of academia, but especially those whose careers are centred in ‘halls of higher learning’. The ideal of ‘higher learning’ is to expose students to the challenging and awe-inspiring wide world of knowledge. One of the key principles of such learning is to assume no fact can be accepted as accurate until the hard work of asking questions, searching for answers and checking those answers against what others have discovered or found to be other facts is done. ‘Alternative facts’ do not belong here. As such, the ‘Jewish problem’ on university campuses, aside from study as an historical reality, has no place in these institutions. Antisemitism is a fact. The Sho’ah and its ramifications for the Jewish people is a fact.
In the same breath as it were, this fact also must be stated: the nakba ( https://www.un.org/unispal/about-the-nakba/ ) and its ramifications for Palestinians is a fact. Regardless of the arguments about how the Nakba occurred, hte fqct is, it happened. The fact that neither side can feel that the pain of the other is the same as their own means that the violence will not end.