April 19, 2024 | National Review
College Presidents Are Losing the Battle against Campus Antisemitism
With evidence of their failures mounting, the need for these leaders to do more is only growing.
April 19, 2024 | National Review
College Presidents Are Losing the Battle against Campus Antisemitism
With evidence of their failures mounting, the need for these leaders to do more is only growing.
Excerpt
I sure would hate to be the parent of a high-school senior right now. Cracking the code on which college or university hates my child least would haunt my dreams. The attempts by college presidents to stem the tide of antisemitism on their campuses — particularly with the rise of virulent and sometimes violent actions after the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror invasion into Israel — appear slapdash at best, complicit at worst.
Indeed, the April 17 appearance of Columbia University’s president, Minouche Shafik, before the House Education and Workforce Committee to testify about antisemitism on Columbia’s campus was emblematic of the…
BONNIE GLICK is the former deputy administrator and chief operating officer of the U.S. Agency for International Development. She is currently an adjunct senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.