Too many Jews (and other historical ironies…..)

I just read a horribly anti-Semitic article published last week in Duke University’s Chronicle.

It is well known that Jews constitute the most privileged ?minority? group in this country. Among the top 10 universities, Jews enjoy shocking overrepresentation: Only the California Institute of Technology has an undergraduate Jewish population below 10 percent, and four schools have particularly stark Jewish advantages?Harvard (30 percent), Yale (23 percent), UPenn (31 percent) and Columbia (25 percent). Keep in mind that, at best estimate, no more than 3 percent of all Americans are Jewish.

It’s a long and twisted piece, and is admirably fisked by a Duke university student — writing (understandably) under the pen-name of John Baker. As Baker points out, anti-Semitism at Duke is “enjoying a golden age of sorts.”

Duke gave a green light to the Palestinian Solidarity Movement (PSM) conference, refusing to listen to critics who questioned the appropriateness of Duke hosting an the anti-Israel hatefest (?Zionism is a disease,? and suicide bombing of Jews is beyond criticism according to its speakers).

Duke provided over $50,000 (according to an administrator interviewed by FrontPage reporter Lee Kaplan) to make the conference possible. Most of these funds were spent on security, which makes sense when you are hosting a gathering to support terrorism.

Duke also allowed the conference to put on one face for the public ? a rally for oppressed Palestinians ? while holding closed sessions devoted to facilitating the genocidal agendas of Hamas and the PLO.

There’s plenty more, and I doubt the story will see the light of day in the mainstream media.
My father (who’s been dead for fifteen years; he’d be 95 today) told me that back in the 1930s and 1940s, Ivy League universities used to have quotas to keep out Jews. Considering the boycotts of Israel and the resurgence of anti-Semitism on campuses, I wonder whether we’ve learned from history.
As it happens, I’ve been writing about fascism recently. (An odious form of totalitarianism — to which some bloggers are doing their best to link conservatives and even liberals with whom they disagree.)
Anti-Semitism is so closely and traditionally associated with fascism that it could be called one of its historical attributes.
Today, however, those who defend Israel are more likely to be called “fascists” than those who attack Israel.
Imagine if the attackers of Israel started calling for restoring anti-Jewish quotas, while the defenders of Israel (commonly called “fascists”) opposed them!
History loves such irony!