College-bound Jew boys and Jew girls: Forget this sh!t. Go to yeshiva. If you’re going to be persecuted for being Jewish, you might as well learn something about your roots. Who knows. You might like it.
Matisyahu Gelman was a secularized, assimilated Austrian school boy. One day, one of his classmates called him a “dirty Jew” and spat on him. After the fist fight, he left the school, met a Jewish holy man in the Jude gas of Vienna, poured his heart out to him, and became a fervent follower of the Gur Rebbe, leading a group of youths who resisted all of the Nazi decrees when they came. They refused to register for work detail, refused to wear the yellow stars, refused to show up voluntarily for deportation to concentration camps, and led rebellions when they ended up there. When some of them were finally gathered in a courtyard and machine gunned, they danced as the bullets went through them, rejoicing in their martyrdom.
Read about it in Those Who Never Yielded, by Moshe Prager.
https://www.amazon.com/Those-Never-Yielded-Moshe-Prager/dp/1600912621
You, too, can dance when they machine gun you, instead of sitting around complacently accepting all the sh!t they throw at you in a big university, and then dying with a surprised look on your face. Or you might even discover the wonderful heritage of which you are right now being kept ignorant, and find a new, more meaningful life immersed in your tradition.
If the pro-Hamas types want to undermine the education of Jewish students in America, it is unclear how that can be stopped. Certainly there has been NO loud and consistent condemnation from American education and government leaders on this vital issue.
However my point is that this is no longer the 1930’s where the only game in town is North America and Europe. There are high quality international level Universities outside the West where students can do their studies or work on their doctorates. There are the Indian Institute of Tecnologies (IITs) in India, the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, some in China and elsewhere that are top tier.
The longer term point is that Jewish scholarship in the West has lead to 129 Nobel Prizes, plus technological leadership in many fields. Ill treatment by Western countries does not have to be tolerated. Sending excellent Jewish scholars to the developing world can accelerate the shift in technological power to nations and peoples who might be more appreciative. And maybe the trickle can turn into something larger where these countries will be safer places for communities that should avoid a West that is about to self destruct.