Campus Anti-Semitism: More on the Stanford Lawsuit

 This week, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under the Law announced a lawsuit against Stanford University on behalf of two Jewish counselors who complain of anti-Semitic bias at the Stanford Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. This was reported yesterday on Fousesquawk.

Here is a more detailed report from the Brandeis Center. In this link, you can further link to the entire Stanford case file, as well as the full statement by the two plaintiffs.

The problems alleged at Stanford seem to be part of a nationwide trend. Academia in general is embracing the principles of Critical Race Theory, which charges that America was founded on a basis of racism and that whites are inherently privileged and racist. Non-whites are basically placed on a pedestal (I believe the word for that is patronizing), and Jews are dismissed as extra-privileged whites not deserving of protection. To buttress that, the Israel-Palestinian conflict is part of the CRT teaching, as if that conflict had anything to do with our issues here at home or in college. Naturally, Israel is painted as the oppressor. This not only will-but already has led to an explosion of anti-Semitism in our universities, which has now metastasized into society as a whole. 

If you needed any confirmation of the danger and divisiveness of CRT, look no further than Stanford. There is nothing constructive about putting a target on the backs of white and Jewish students (who are not all white, by the way). Instead, we should be finding ways of coming together as Americans.

There is nothing wrong about teaching our children about the dark chapters of our history (slavery, segregation, discrimination), just as Germany teaches its children about Hitler and the Holocaust. However, it should be taught within the context of the Civil Rights Movement and the dramatic (if incomplete) changes in our country during the past 50 years. Yes, there are still white racists out there, but they are a small fringe who do not represent anybody but themselves. In addition, they are powerless to stop minorities from getting educated, advancing in their professions, and becoming all they can be In today's America, whites and Jews are not the enemies of minorities.

State-by-state, this CRT teaching must be defeated.