On this episode of Neutz World, on Tuesday, October 31st, Patrick Die, a 21-year-old junior at Cornell University, originally from Pittsburgh, New York, was arrested

for making online threats to Jewish students on the Cornell campus.

Die's actions represent an upward trend of the rise of anti-Semitism and college

campuses since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th.

I'm really pleased to welcome back my guest William Jacobson, clinical professor and

director of the securities law clinic at Cornell Law School. He's also the

founder and publisher of Legal Insurection, a popular politics and law website, which

you can find at legal insurrection.com. Bill welcome and thank you for joining me again in Newt's world.

Thanks for having me back.

I'm curious, you know, there have been a whole series of frankly shocking acts of anti semitism on our campuses.

What's your perspective on all of this?

My perspective is that this was a long time coming, that people cannot look at it and say something

happened on October 7th that ignited this, that started it. I can trace it all the way back to my days at Harvard Law School in the

early 1980s and I would call it the what's the racialization of education and

the racialization of the Israeli Arab conflict, much like the

campuses have become racialized by critical race theory, so-called anti-racism theory, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

And in that equation, the Jewish students have been left on the sideline.

That the conflict is portrayed on campuses

as white oppressor Israel, much like they call the US

the white oppressor and oppressed non white Palestinians.

And that over the years, and I've witnessed it at Cornell and I've witnessed it in my website

coverage, has metastasized into open anti-Semitism.

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