The Issue: Universities’ response to a rise in antisemitism on campus after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.
Steven Hayward doesn’t have much hope that universities will hold professors accountable for supporting or celebrating Hamas’ barbaric attack on Oct. 7, during which 1,400 people in Israel were murdered (“Campus Cleanup?” PostOpinion, Nov. 3).
University administrators, by their silence or their failure to rebuke or rebut, are implicitly supporting the outrageous statements of their faculty.
Of course, tenured faculty are solidly entrenched in the academic world. Perhaps the power of tenured faculty is well illustrated by the joke: What is the difference between a terrorist and a tenured professor? You can negotiate with a terrorist.
Frank Brady
Yonkers
The left has a unique way of destroying anything it gets its talons into. First, it was once-magnificent and proud cities, now it’s universities.
Ivy League colleges, once held in, and worthy of, the highest esteem imaginable have devolved into uninspired cesspools of anti-American rot.
With respect to the professors now “educating” our progeny, a universal adage has come to the fore: “Garbage in, garbage out.”
Anthony Parks
Garden City
Cornell’s leadership would never have sat idly by had any other ethnic group been subjected to the same acts of bigotry, humiliation and hostility that Jewish students and staff have been exposed to.
That any respectable university would permit outright antisemitism to fester unchecked on campus is indeed telling.
It reveals the school’s true beliefs. Cornell’s pathetic peep of indignation was simply in response to the negative press it had recently received. Antisemitism is alive and well there.
The actions of Cornell and its academic allies would have received a ringing endorsement from Adolf Hitler and his proud henchmen.
S.P. Hersh, Lawrence
In regards to the Israel-Hamas conflict, the situation that is currently ongoing is expected.
However, the protests overtaking the media are ridiculous, and a professor from Cornell University called the Hamas attack “exhilarating” and “energizing.”
At Harvard, more than 30 student groups signed a letter blaming Israel for the mass slaughter of its people by Hamas terrorists.
Considering this, it makes sense for Sen. Tom Cotton to demand the immediate deportation of foreign nationals who have expressed support for Hamas (which is considered a terrorist organization by several nations).
Titan Sanchez
Palm Bay, Fla.
When country and athletic clubs stopped accepting Jews or displayed antisemitism, Jews started forming their own clubs, which became even better than the ones that displayed anti-Jewish sentiment.
Maybe now it’s time Jews stop going to schools that allow signs that say “Free Palestine,” like New York University, and stop donating to those schools.
What those schools are advocating is killing Jews.
Edward Drossman
Manhattan
Ivy League colleges have morphed into the “Poison Ivy League” and are cesspools of anti-semitism.
Wealthy alumni donors closed their checkbooks, while Jewish students protested. But more must be done.
College students who feel uncomfortable on Ivy League campuses should transfer to schools that respect their religion. High-school students should not apply for admission to Ivy League schools.
There are more tolerant and less expensive institutions where they can get a quality education.
It’s time for a mass boycott of “elite” colleges where hatred matriculates.
Richard Reif
Queens
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