By now, everyone has seen the video footage of the congressional testimony offered

by the Presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT to the U.S. House

of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce.

It says disappointing,

if not surprising, as everyone says it is. These prestigious institutions, historic and invaluable,

storied foundation stones in the American system of higher education, they were represented by

presidents who equivocated when asked if calling for Jewish genocide violated their anti-harassment

policies. And when the highest levels of university administration permit, under meretricious

justifications of free speech or any other kind of sophisticate rationale, when these administrators

make clear that anti-Semitism will not be punished, that it is a welcome

volley in the free exchange of ideas. Then anti-Semites, and their useful idiots, will grow in strength

and confidence. As much as Jewish students and parents and educators and their friends were

disappointed by these three institutions, the adversaries of the Jews must

have been pleased. You see, it's been a tumultuous period of time since the October 7th

Hamas attacks in Israel on college campuses in America. There's been all manner of harassment,

graffiti, the destruction of property, discrimination, intimidation, including physical intimidation, and low-level

violence. One of the scenes that typifies this moment took place at Cooper Union, a private

college in New York City, made immortal as the site of Abraham Lincoln's most important speeches.

At the end of October of this year, a handful of Jewish students were barricaded in the

college library because campus security could not adequately protect them from a group of

protesters banging on the library doors. It's a sad and recurring fantasy among American

college students in general that every generation wants to recapitulate the campus activism

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