An anti-Semitic atmosphere

On September 17, 2002, Harvard President Larry Summers delivered his traditional remarks in honor of the beginning of the academic year. However, in an admittedly unprecedented fashion, Summers decided to come out against the burgeoning anti-Semitism among academic communities.

Summers described himself as "Jewish, identified but hardly devout," and said that anti-Semitism had always been remote from his experience, adding that he had long been wary of those who raise the specter of anti-Semitism in response to any disagreement over Israel.

He explained, however, that he felt forced to speak out publicly against anti-Semitism for the first time due to the upturn in anti-Semitism on campuses, and the attempts to delegitimize the Jewish state by comparing it to Nazi Germany and the calls for academic and economic boycotts against it.

Whereas in Europe the anti-Semitism that has risen drastically in the past five years has been expressed in violent incidents, attacks on synagogues and Jewish institutions as well attacks in the media, but far less so in the universities, in the United States and Canada, an anomalous situation has come into being: Anti-Semitism in American streets and cities or in the press is virtually nonexistent, while the campuses there have turned into throbbing centers of anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic activity.

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Was the article about a-s? I'm unclear on that, I counted at least one mention
in each of the paras in the article, but I think the author was being *way*
too subtle. I'd suggest, if he wanted to push the 'criticising-Israel=a-s' line,
there should be at least *three* mentions in each paragraph. Also, he doesn't
include Dershie in the article - what kind of advocate-for-Israel misses a
chance to name-check the author of a Case for Israel, nevermind in a article
that mentions Harvard?

:)

Once you have, then ask a real question. Although I didn't write the piece, I will address a real question.

Harvard President Larry Summers explains that anti semitism exists and is expanding.....whats the problem?

What has one got to do with the other? What is wrong with strong criticism of Israel?


I could imagine someone saying in the mid 1980's:

"The university campuses have turned into throbbing centers of anti-South Africa and anti-White activity."

Yep, it would have been ludicrous to say that.