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Education Department Launches Investigation Into CUNY Anti-Semitism

The Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights on Thursday launched an investigation into allegations of "severe and persistent anti-Semitic harassment" against students at Brooklyn College. The Department is set to begin its investigation a year af

Seventy six years ago my father came home fro World War 2 and was told that he could y enroll in Brooklyn College because they had a quota on the number of Jews allowed in the school and they had reached that quota. He eventually found his way in-but it was DESPITE the rampant antisemitism of the time. Its 2022 and nothing has changed. Things did get better. For a while. Now we’re in the same morass that we were in then-the only difference is that the perpetrators tend to look different these days. We’ve always been hated by the left and the right. It’s unquestionable that today the vast majority of antisemitism comes from the left, almost ALL of it couched in the language of being “anti-Israel” or “anti-Zionist.” Those are the excuses. However, it’s all the same thing. When it was bad to be white, we were deemed not white. Now the left believes that whiteness is bad, they’ve decided that we’re white. I’m totally sick of it. The time has come to fight back.

From the article:

“The complaint outlines how professors ‘have maligned Jews on the basis of race and ethnic identity" by claiming that Jews "contribute to the systemic oppression of people of color.’ Faculty, staff, and students disseminated ‘classical anti-Semitic trope that Jews possess disproportionate power and influence,’ the complaint reads. One professor slammed American Jews as ‘oppressors.’”

That’s typical leftist rhetoric. How anyone can be Jewish and naive enough to believe that this isn’t the exact same language used to denigrate us throughout history is beyond me. If anyone on the right, let alone people on virtually every single college campus, said that - they would be, correctly, endlessly condemned. The Jewish community needs to stop picking its battles based on politics.