Opinion: The Useful Idiots on American Campuses

To make matters worse, in the majority of cases, the response of university presidents to these antisemitic expressions within their institutions was, at best, feeble and tainted by political correctness, supposedly expressing solidarity with the suffering of both the Israeli and Palestinian sides. Antisemites in general, and on US campuses in particular, can be categorized into three groups: the classic antisemites, the modern antisemites, and the ignorant “useful idiots.”