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#ANTISEMITISM: Unstopped, uncontained, unchallenged by universities and colleges. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution

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🗓️ 30 April 2024

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#ANTISEMITISM: Unstopped, uncontained, unchallenged by universities and colleges. Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/04/28/harvard_should_reject_the_dei_version_of_diversity_150853.html

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0:00.0

Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

0:04.0

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

0:09.1

tropics.

0:10.1

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

0:13.4

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

0:18.0

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever

0:26.7

you listen to podcasts. I'm John Basker, CBS I in the world, Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution

0:39.3

this year writing most recent in Reicler politics about a choice by Harvard College for a leader for the

0:47.4

search for a new president, Clodion Gay, having stepped down in to do with the controversy over Harvard College permitting

0:58.0

unacceptable conduct by its student body and others, chiefly to do with anti-Semitism.

1:04.0

This is in some fashion the red line of the 20th century.

1:09.0

And yet, Peter, I go to the news from London again.

1:15.0

About 275 people arrested on Saturday in various campuses,

1:20.0

including Indiana University at Bloomington, Arizona State University in Arizona,

1:26.0

Washington University in St Louis, arrest nationwide 900.

1:30.0

University of California, I believe UCLA is cancelled its main graduation.

1:36.0

In other words, this is in the middle of turmoil.

1:39.0

We don't know how far it's going to go.

1:41.0

However, the measure here seems to be provocation. The measure here

1:47.2

seems to be how anti-Semitic can you make your language and still be standing up in the midst of the media attention?

1:57.6

Or as I evidenced in the opening remarks, how insulting can you be to the traditions of an institution such

2:06.4

as Harvard College to replace the American flag with a Palestinian flag of some fashion and to mock the statue of John Harvard who was responsible

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