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Source: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-intifada-at-mit-029369ed
The Intifada at MIT
(Wall Street Journal) Barton Swaim - Yossi Sheffi, a professor of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for 48 years, has produced a report on campus-based antisemitism after Oct. 7 - Unsafe at MIT. The report reminds us that the anti-Israel campus protests didn't arise in response to the war in Gaza but to Hamas terrorists' murdering, maiming, raping and abducting thousands of Israeli civilians. The agitators didn't demand a return to Israel's borders in 1967 or a "two-state solution" but the Jewish state's eradication. Sheffi interviewed scores of Jewish and Israeli students who said many of their peers, professors and advisers turned into adversaries. He relates stories of students blocked from campus thoroughfares, targeted by name as "Zionists" in online forums, and taunted and screamed at. Meanwhile, the administration caved in to the demands of the protesters. If any other minority had been treated as Jews and Israelis were on America's campuses two years ago, we would have seen National Guardsmen patrolling their quads. Again and again in Sheffi's narrative, Jewish and Israeli students, many of them politically liberal, recalled their mistake in assuming they could reason with their keffiyeh-sporting peers. One student recounts: "A lot of people looked like they were in a trance. It almost looked like a cult." Sheffi's book describes a great American institution avidly betraying its principles.