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What a garbage article, like, start to finish manipulative attempt to build a stupid narrative. Like, antisemitism is a real thing but this kind of nonsense discredits real attempts to call it out.
I read this more as "Heads of 3 top US colleges refuse to trap themselves in what was likely to be a performative thread of anti-Palestinian questions from one of Congress's most shameless clown-people (Elise Stefanik)."
To be clear, from the article itself:
The university leaders all personally criticized anti-Israel activism.
On second thought, it may not have even been anti-Palestinian per se, but rather more careless exploitation in pursuit of CRT-adjacent nonsense.
Some Republicans sought to paint campus antisemitism as a product of universities embracing “the race-based ideology of the radical left,”
Just the cheap headline, which is obviously all about framing is enough for me to not read the article.
Yup, head in the sand. That works.
People are not obligated to engage with obviously shitty rhetoric.
if you think Israel is an apartheid state or Ukraine is a nazi state, consider blocking me.
Source: your bio.
Doing a lot of putting your head in the sand lately, have we?
I choose what I read based on quality, that´s all.
At least the headline is so bad it's pretty obvious.
Ich dachte Nacktmullen spuehren keinen Schmerz?!? 🤣
Nackmulle registrieren Schmerz, nehmen ihn aber nicht als unangenehm wahr (: )=
Bullshit article. Shame on you OP
So in other words they understood that they were being called on to condemn antisemitism in order to help reinforce the narrative that these college rallies were antisemitic protests, when in fact they were pro-Palestinian ones.
Good on them for choosing to side with their students rather than give the anti-Palestinian camp their manufactured "professors condemn antisemitic student rallies" soundbites.
Refuse to engage with their genocide-backing rhetoric that tries to tie being pro-Palestinian to being antisemitic.
this is going to be locked for a variety of reasons:
You know it is an unbiased source when there is a bright red banner at the top of the page indicating which day of the war on Gaza it is.
Here's a fuller account of what was said:
(Original URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/12/06/3-elite-college-presidents-answered-questions-antisemitism/)
I feel like there's some weird context here. Why does Stefanik want to get that "yes" and why are they reluctant to say it? Would it be a declaration of some university policy that would lead to suppressing the demonstrations or what?