Academia’s Stepchildren, The Jews

Jew-hatred, reconstituted in the 19th century as antisemitism, has become acceptable under the thin and duplicitous veneer of anti-Zionism. Whether you want to split hairs with the Gallup poll’s methodology showing that 94 percent of Jews are Zionists or simply note that Zionism is an ideology adhered to by a majority of Jews, there is no doubt that, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “When people criticize Zionists they mean Jews; you are talking antisemitism.”

For the intersectionality crowd, the Jew is a convenient substitute for the white oppressor.

On campus, Jewish organizations face unprecedented procedural hurdles in organizing. Jewish candidates for student government have been blacklisted for supporting Israel. And deans of diversity and inclusion have dismissed Jewish complaints as having no foundation since the broad spectrum of identity groups is against them.

These administrators buy into the notion of “true truth,” a vacuous variant of Oprah Winfrey’s nonsensical “your truth.” True truth is that which is believed by the majority of an oppressed group. And if most people in an ethnic group believe that the COVID-19 vaccine is a sinister plot by Bill Gates to implant a GPS chip in you, then that, too, is true. “Your truth” becomes transformed into true truth

So, if the intersectionality crowd dabbles in blood libels about Jews, the irrational logic of true truth gives them legitimacy. The mathematical notion that propositions are true or false no longer holds. Logic, like much on campus, has succumbed to the absurdity of identity ideology.