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We have lost to the white racist press and to the racist reactionary Jewish misleaders. - Former Rep. Gus Savage (D-Illinois) after his defeat 1992

The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He rose Germany up from the ashes. Louis Farrakhan (1984) who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002

On New York - Kiketown. Harry Truman in a personal letter

Now that nation called Israel, never has had any peace in forty years and she will never have any peace because there can never be any peace structured on injustice, thievery, lying and deceit and using the name of God to shield your dirty religion under his holy and righteous name. - Louis Farrakhan who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002, 1984

Hymies. Hymietown. - Jesse Jackson's description of New York City while on the 1984 presidential campaign trail.

Jews... that's J-E-W-S. - Democratic state representative Bill McKinney on why his daughter Cynthia lost in 2002

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The New York Times:

As Fury Erupts Over Campus Antisemitism, Conservatives Seize the Moment

Republicans have been attacking elite universities for years. After a tense congressional hearing last week, many on the left are joining them.

For years, conservatives have struggled to persuade American voters that the left-wing tilt of higher education is not only wrong but dangerous.

Universities and their students, they've argued, have been increasingly clenched by suffocating ideologies - political correctness in one decade, overweening "social justice" in another, "woke-ism" most recently - that shouldn't be dismissed as academic fads or harmless zeal.

The validation they have sought seemed to finally arrive this fall, as campuses convulsed with protests AGAINST ISRAEL'S military campaign in Gaza and hostile, sometimes violent, RHETORIC TOWARD JEWS.

It came to a head last week on Capitol Hill, as the presidents of three elite universities struggled to answer a question about whether "calling for the GENOCIDE OF JEWS" would violate school rules, and Republicans asserted that outbreaks of campus antisemitism were a symptom of the radical ideas they had long warned about.

On Saturday, amid the fallout, one of those presidents, M. Elizabeth Magill of the University of Pennsylvania, resigned.

For Republicans, the rise of antisemitic speech and the timid responses of some academic leaders presented a long-sought opportunity to cast liberals or their institutions as HATEFUL AND INTOLERANT.

"What I'm describing is a grave danger inherent in assenting to the race-based ideology of the left," said Representative Virginia Foxx, Republican of North Carolina, at the hearing, adding, "Institutional antisemitism and hate are among the poison fruits of your institution's cultures."

The potency of the critique was underscored by how many Democrats joined the attack.

"For a long time I said that antisemitism, particularly on the American left, was not as bad as people claimed," wrote Sam Altman, head of the artificial intelligence firm OpenAI and a major Democratic donor, on X.

"I'D LIKE TO JUST STATE THAT I WAS TOTALLY WRONG."

Just as celebratory rallies in the aftermath of Hamas's October rampage have split Jewish progressives from some of their own longtime allies, anti-Israel protests on campus in recent weeks have driven a wedge into the Democratic Party more broadly.

They have turned prominent politicians and executives against institutions where they are more accustomed to send their children or deliver commencement addresses.

Tensions at America's Colleges Over Israel-Hamas War

At the University of Pennsylvania: Students and professors reflected on divisions at the school after its president resigned over an outcry caused by her responses at a congressional hearing on antisemitism.

At Harvard: Bill Ackman, a billionaire investor, has mounted a high-profile battle against Claudine Gay, Harvard's president, over antisemitism and threats to Jewish students on campus. But long-held personal grudges play a part, too.

A Conservative Moment: Republicans have been attacking elite universities for years, and with recent critiques of what qualifies as free speech on campus, many on the left are joining them.

Anti-Zionism vs. Anti-Semitism: A once largely academic issue has roiled national discourse, inciting accusations of bigotry and countercharges of bullying.

It has even fractured the #MeToo cause, as prominent liberal women, such as the former Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, question why advocacy groups and institutions dedicated to women's rights were so slow to speak as evidence emerged that the Hamas attackers on Oct. 7 wielded rape as a weapon of war.

On the presidential campaign trail, where Republican contenders largely phased out their critiques of college woke-ism this summer after finding it had limited appeal to a broader political audience, the issue came back to the fore at last Wednesday's debate.

"If you don't think that Israel has a right to exist, that is antisemitic," said Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor, who suggested she would seek to impose new federal rules around anti-Israel statements if elected president. "We will change the definition so that every government, every school, has to acknowledge the definition for what it is."

The Republican counterattacks come after several years in which prominent conservatives began to embrace an antisemitic, race-based ideology of their own: so-called replacement theory, which holds that Western elites, sometimes manipulated by Jews, want to replace and disempower white Americans, in part by encouraging unfettered immigration. The theory has helped inspire several mass shootings in the United States in recent years, even as echoes of its central tenets become more common in mainstream Republican politics. Last week, while Ms. Haley attacked antisemitism on the Republican stage, another candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, declared replacement theory to be a "basic statement of the Democratic Party's platform."

Yet for many on the right, the careful, evasive answers from three college presidents at Tuesday's hearing - Ms. Magill, Claudine Gay of Harvard and Sally Kornbluth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - were in stark contrast to those institutions' long indulgence of left-wing sensitivities around race and gender.

The careful, evasive answers from three college presidents at Tuesday's hearing were in stark contrast to those institutions' long indulgence of left-wing sensitivities around race and gender.

All three institutions have in recent years punished or censored speech or conduct that drew anger from the left. In 2019, Harvard revoked a deanship held by Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., a Black law professor, after students protested his joining the legal team of the former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. In 2021, M.I.T. canceled a planned scientific lecture by the star geophysicist Dorian Abbot, pointing to his criticism of affirmative action. The University of Pennsylvania's law school is seeking to impose sanctions on a tenured professor there, Amy Wax, citing student complaints about her remarks regarding the academic performance of students of color, among other provocations.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, which advocates free speech in American society, ranks hundreds of colleges for their protection of students' rights and open inquiry. Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania sit at the bottom.

"The same administrators now cloaking themselves in the mantle of free speech have been all too willing to censor all kinds of unpopular stuff on their campuses," said Alex Morey, the foundation's director of campus rights advocacy. "It is such utter hypocrisy."

Controversies around antisemitism may fuel further Republican efforts to defund and restrict public universities, particularly where the G.O.P. dominates state legislatures. One leading Republican presidential contender, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, won a following among conservatives with incessant attacks on diversity programs and the teaching of left-wing theories of racism at Florida public universities. All told, more than 20 states this year passed or considered bills restricting diversity, equity and inclusion programs or identity-based hiring practices, according to a tally kept by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Jay P. Greene, a senior researcher at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, said that antisemitic and anti-Israel protests on campuses - and the university presidents' lawyerly responses at last week's hearing - were akin to what he called the "Zoom moment" during the pandemic, when some parents first listened closely to what their children were learning in school and concluded it was "subpar in quality and radical in content."

"One of those things we've struggled with, those of us who want to reform higher education, is convincing people that there's a problem," Dr. Greene added. "Historically, they look around and say, 'Huh, this seems fine.' Everything they're seeing right now is that things are not fine."

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/us/universities-antisemitism-conservatives- liberals.html

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