Harvard is the greatest university in America, maybe the world, or so some might have believed until listening to its president, Claudine Gay. She was asked at a congressional hearing if inflamed, retrograde students recently screaming for Jewish genocide were breaking the school’s rules. It depends on the context, she replied, as if the context wasn’t made clear in the question and that she could dupe everyone with fraudulent intellectualism.
What had transpired was an astonishing scene with Gay and two other presidents of elitist institutions of higher learning seeming more like they were devoted to lower learning, if any. The insight they engendered was one of American decay as Nazified students, supposedly among our best and brightest, getting away with forming mobs while screaming about all Jews and expressing morally abhorrent, mindless hatred toward Israel for the crime of defending itself against Hamas, the terrorist ruler of Gaza.
The dreaded sickness of antisemitism is suddenly in our face in full force in America, where it seemed some time back to have begun dwindling to something less and less frightening. Its endurance in the Middle East, however, couldn’t have been more certain given a dramatic outburst by Hamas fanatics.
They invaded Israel and killed babies. They tortured parents to death as children watched. Merrily laughing, they stripped clothes from women before subjecting them to repeated rape. These particular Israeli victims were then left painless through murder.
