Recent events in higher education have led many to conclude that college campuses are hubs of anti-Semitism.
Stanford University student and resident assistant Hamzeh Daoud declared in July 2018 his intent to "physically fight Zionists on campus."Oberlin College professor Joy Karega asserted in November 2016 that U.S. intelligence agencies conspired with Israel to commit the Charlie Hebdo massacre. In April 2018, professor Kwame Zulu Shabazz of Knox College tweeted that Jews are "pulling the strings for profit." Stories like these make Victor Davis Hanson's observation that "colleges are becoming the incubators of progressive hatred of Jews" ring true. Higher education is helping to make anti-Semitism respectable again.
Most coverage of anti-Semitism on campus has focused on leftist and pro-Palestinian student groups such as the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Yet, as National Association of Scholars President Peter W. Wood and I discovered while researching "neo-Segregation" in higher education, campus anti-Semitism also stems from "woke" black activism. "Woke" politics is a radical ideology with roots in a strain of black nationalism that rejected the civil rights movement's goal to promote racial integration throughout American society.
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