Fighting antisemitism is not bad for the Jews

A university president informs his fellow Jews that they really need to stop being so mean to the people who want to kill them.

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Recently, I wrote a piece asserting that New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and the American Jewish ruling class in general are decadent and depraved.

I believe this is proven not only by their total failure to protect their community from antisemitism, but also by the fact that many of them are actually defending antisemites.

I have discovered that, two weeks ago, further evidence of this was offered, once again by the New York Times.

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It came in a column published, of all times and probably deliberately, on Passover eve.

The piece is by Michael S. Roth, president of Wesleyan University. In it, Roth proudly boasts that he is “the first Jewish president” of Wesleyan. This is not a great testament to Wesleyan’s virtue, though Roth appears to have missed the irony.

He misses a great deal of irony, in fact, as indicated by the title of his column: “Trump Is Selling Jews a Dangerous Lie.”

Put simply, Roth is horrified that the Trump administration is actually fighting campus antisemitism—including, presumably, on his own campus.