America, Jews, and the Ivy League

The case for Jews withdrawing from elite universities is strong. It presents itself most comprehensively when presidents and bureaucrats, who preen unrelentingly about the importance of making all groups feel safe and welcome, find themselves suddenly tongue-tied when Jews report feeling unsafe. The bureaucrats so quick to wield Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments Act to railroad students accused of unverifiable discomfort-inducing gender-based comments suddenly misplace their Civil Rights Act when rank national-origin discrimination is captured on camera. This illuminates an embarrassing irony: While elite schools go to great lengths to shield favored groups from words in the name of safety, and launch into action where evidence is scant, they drag their feet when defending disfavored groups’ physical safety in the face of violent assaults (notably at Harvard), false imprisonment (notably at the Cooper Union), and harassment (everywhere).