Recent years have seen the rise of professionals, and then whole departments, whose mandate is to ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)—first in universities, and later in private corporations. Yet including Jews or granting them “equity” is not a priority for the DEI consultants and commissars. Quite the opposite, writes Seth Mandel:
On campus, DEI bureaucracies are straightforward ideological enforcers. Their ideology views Jews as emissaries of (white) power. That’s why DEI officials aren’t merely indifferent to campus Jew-baiting, but its ringleaders.
In 2021, Jewish employees of a Stanford University mental-health division filed complaints against the university over incidents in a staff DEI program. According to Inside Higher Education, staff were divided into two groups, one for people of color and the other for “whiteness accountability.” The Jewish employees were told to join the “whiteness accountability” group because it was for all who are complicit in systemic racism, including those who are “white-passing.” According to the complaints, the DEI committee “endorsed the narrative that Jews are connected to white supremacy, advancing anti-Semitic tropes concerning Jewish power, conspiracy, and control.”
In 2021, amid a rash of anti-Jewish violence around the country, the Rutgers University chancellor Christopher Molloy and the provost Francine Conway unequivocally denounced the hate, . . . and then promptly apologized for doing so. “Our diversity must be supported by equity, inclusion, antiracism, and the condemnation of all forms of bigotry and hatred, including anti-Semitism and Islamophobia,” they said, titling the second statement “An Apology.” That pernicious apology was clarifying, because it insisted that “diversity” and empathy for Jewish suffering are mutually exclusive.
The administrators, educators, and bureaucrats at America’s colleges and universities are to blame for this state of affairs. And they should be held accountable for it.
Read more on Commentary: https://www.commentary.org/articles/seth-mandel/campus-diversity-jew-hatred/