Why Was It So Hard for Elite Universities to Condemn Hamas Terrorism?
This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Marc Zvi Brettler & Michael B. Poliakoff
Real Clear Wire
America’s leading universities have an antisemitism problem—and it starts at the top. This past week, university presidents and deans across the country wrote to their students and faculties to express concern in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Israel by Hamas. What they said, and what they did not say, provides a window into the culture of intellectual and moral rot and cowardice that reigns at these once-great institutions.
Those who attack Jews or Israel are all too often exempt from their excoriation. Hamas terrorists massacred some 1,300 Israelis, took approximately 200 hostages,