No Jews need apply

My granddaughter graduated from Yale last year with a keyiffeh on her shoulders, and she was hardly the only Yalie celebrating Hamas over Israel, which is to say: favoring Heinrich Himmler over the inmates of Auschwitz. The atrocities of October 7, 2023, were just a shadow of Adolf Hitler's Holocaust, but the goal was identical, to destroy the Jews next door, murdering and kidnapping as many as they could reach. The goal was to force Israel to retaliate, which of course it did, and turned the world against the Jewish state instead of the monsters who had defiled it.

Anti-Semitism has now gone mainstream in the Americas, Europe, and around the world. Ireland and Canada and dozens of other nations have recognized a "state" of Palestine, though no such state exists outside the fever dreams of the Hamas terrorists. And the actual state of Israel, on land where Jews have lived for three thousand years, is condemned as a colonial oppressor. "From the river to the sea," chant our students, their professors, and the likely next mayor of New York City, "Palestine will be free." How many of them can name the bodies of water they're chanting about? Indeed, do they even know what that freedom will look like, once eight million Jews have been murdered or forced into exile?

Twenty-odd years ago, I was a late-blooming grad student at King's College London, so that photo came as a shock. I emailed it to a friend on the faculty, and he confirmed that Jews do indeed feel unsafe at King's. He has talked to students who dress to disguise their ethnicity (avoiding the kippah or the Star of David) and who "deliberately [vary] their routes to and from the College at night.