The $6.5 billion question

Noa Amouyal undershoots the mark in using the phrase “this small, yet growing faction on the Left” when describing left-wing antisemitism in America (“Radical left-wing US politicians drive Jews apart – here’s how to fix it,” September 15). In fact it is this left-wing antisemitism that has taken over American higher education during the past 30 years. As a result, politicians “educated” in left-wing antisemitic anti-Israel drivel have emerged – filled with Jew hatred like that of their German counterparts of the late 1930s.

Prof. Cary Nelson, Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an Affiliated Professor at the University of Haifa, in his widely acclaimed treatise “Israel Denial: Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and the Faculty Campaign against the Jewish State”(2019) details the poisonous antisemitic pedagogy that has engulfed American education.

Nelson explains: “Faculty members in BDS-dominated academic disciplines in the humanities and soft sciences feel increasingly justified in teaching courses designed explicitly to delegitimize Israel. I have concluded that the more ambitious anti-Zionist projects are also antisemitic... it should be clear that BDS faculty also do not offer suggestions for policy reform: because they believe the Jewish state is fundamentally demonic and evil. Many faculty who write extensively in opposition to Israel are consumed with hatred... Israel, they believe, cannot be reformed; it must be eliminated... This is an antisemitic goal,”

The source of this antisemitic educational poison is clear.

“Between 1986 and 2018, Middle East Muslim countries donated a total of $6,566,462,768 to US universities... These funds have a significant impact on attitudes, antisemitic culture, and BDS activities” (“Follow The Money -- Examining Undocumented Foreign Funding of American Universities: Implications For Education and Rising Antisemitism,” June 13, 1920, The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy.)

Until Jay Ruderman, Rabbi Dr. David Barak-Gorobetsky and their allies find a way to turn off this antisemitic Islamic faucet that has already poured over six and a half billion dollars into American higher education, nothing will change. In fact it is getting worse. This same antisemitic pedagogy is now flooding American secondary and primary education under the euphemisms “ethnic studies” and “critical race theory.”

RICHARD SHERMAN Margate, Florida