Antisemitism appears to be growing. On college campuses.
Pro-Palestinian protests are becoming more heated, perhaps because activists see the hurt and the pain and the death of innocent civilians and look at the IDF as a blindly efficient, heartless killing machine.
I don’t know for sure what the protesters are thinking—if they’re just reacting to what they’re seeing, or if it’s more deep-seated than that and they are, perhaps unbeknownst to themselves, simply perpetuating the sins of their forebears when it comes to willfully misunderstanding the Jewish mindset.
The Jews are an historically put-upon people, to put it mildly. Their discipline, their traditions, their zero-tolerance policies haven’t materialized out of thin air or because they are a short-tempered people ready to inflict pain and suffering on anyone who looks at them the wrong way.
Besides the biblical witness of oppressive empires and exile—and the events of October 7—how do you put an atrocity like the Holocaust behind you? One may, rightly or wrongly, suspect that those scars and that pain and those memories will loom large, be passed down to the third and fourth… and maybe fortieth generations.
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