Chuck Darwin on Nostr: For what it’s worth, I have experienced no antisemitism in my two decades at ...

For what it’s worth, I have experienced no antisemitism in my two decades at Harvard,
and nor have other prominent Jewish faculty members.

My own discomfort instead is captured in a Crimson essay by the Harvard senior Jacob Miller,
who called the claim that one in four Jewish students feels
“physically unsafe” on campus
“an absurd statistic I struggle to take seriously as someone who publicly and proudly wears a kippah around campus each day.”

The obsession with antisemitism at Harvard represents, ironically,
a surrender to the critical-social-justice credo that the only wrong worthy of condemnation is group-against-group bigotry.

Instead of directly rebutting the flaws of the anti-Zionist platform,
such as its approval of violence against civilians and its historical blind spots,
critics have tried to tar it with the sin of antisemitism.

But that can devolve into futile semantic disputation about the meaning of the word “antisemitism,” which, our council has argued, can lead to infringements of academic freedom

-- Steven Pinker
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opinion/harvard-university-trump-administration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare