by Gabriel Noah Brahm

A virulent, novel strain of anti-Zionist antisemitism is loose on the American campus.

In the wake of October 7, 2023’s barbaric terrorist assault on southern Israeli kibbutzim, a rave party, and a small military base, the Jewish state has been denounced loudly by extremists. As a consequence, Jewish students and faculty in the United States find themselves as unwelcome in the quad or the classroom as a troop of uniformed IDF soldiers.

Apparently the result of a lab leak containing intellectual materials gleaned from various “studies” programs (Gender Studies, Middle East Studies, LGBTQ Studies, Critical Legal Studies)—where experimentation with conceptual “gain of function” research had gone on in relative obscurity for some time—the potent “new-new antisemitism” (as it’s being called) is spiked with doses of esoteric new doctrines. “Intersectionality,” in its more dubious applications, reduces all moral and political questions to matters of “oppressor” and “oppressed. “Critical race theory” brands Jews not only as “white” (a term used on campus to mean “structurally racist”) but “hyper-white” (the whitest, therefore most racist of all). Theories of “settler colonialism” misrepresent Jews as colonizers in their own indigenous lands and the State of Israel as somehow illegitimate, despite its rather unique birth certificate, bestowed by the United Nations itself in 1947. Moreover, what the proponents of all these ideologies have in common is that they point to Jews and Israel as uniquely blameworthy personifications of all the “evils” attributed to the West, historically, by its occidentalist critics.

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