On Tuesday, a group of Jewish students met with administrators at England’s University of Bristol to express their concerns over the anti-Semitic rantings of Professor David Miller, whose complaints at a recent online event targeted even the campus Jewish Society. But this is not a case of a professor who suddenly revealed his true colors in some offhand comments, or a scholar who happens to hold radical political views, notes Dave Rich. Rather, Miller’s hatred for Jews and the Jewish state is baked into his research:

From synagogue shootings, to attacks on Jews on the streets, to the gathering strength and viciousness of anti-Zionism, especially in the corridors of political power, American Jewry has ample reason for concern about its safety and wellbeing. But, surveying both the present situation and the deep roots of what has made America a welcoming home to Jews with “no analogue in the 2,000 years after the destruction of the Temple,” Josef Joffe argues that the U.S. remains exceptional. The bad news, however, is still bad: