Hamas-Israel war reveals the world's oldest hatred in American higher education

Hamas's war on Israel has unleashed other outbreaks of antisemitism.

Donald Sweeting serves as Chancellor of Colorado Christian University.

This war is revealing the depth of antisemitism in American higher education.

Thirty-one student organizations at Harvard made a joint statement condemning Israel and denouncing its "colonial retaliation." Students at Columbia asserted that the weight of responsibility for the war lies with Israel. Similar sentiments have come from Northwestern University, Yale, Portland State, City College and Hunter College in New York, Boston University and Stanford. No doubt others will follow. Such groups say the attacks were justified because of the Israeli occupation and so they blame the Israelis themselves for being raped, murdered, and taken hostage. These protests are often not just anti-Israel, but anti-Jew.