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The Coming Jewish-Student “Brain Drain”
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | October 3, 2025 | Christopher L. Schilling

Posted on 10/03/2025 1:49:07 PM PDT by karpov

After the most recent outbreak of campus antisemitism in America, the Israel Association of University Heads issued a statement denouncing the mistreatment in question and voicing their support for Jewish and Israeli members of the offending institutions. “We will do our best to assist those of them who wish to join Israeli universities and find a welcoming academic and personal home,” they concluded. The heads of all nine public universities in Israel signed the joint statement.

Other initiatives followed encouraging students to leave American higher education for Israel. Such a move would, according to the Kohelet Policy Forum, allow students to “enjoy a level of academic study higher than that offered in the United States, where excellency is currently being eroded by progressive insanity, which aside from being marinated in Jew-hatred, is also destroying all academic endeavor.” That policy recommendation has since been adopted by Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs and seems to find some resonance among American Jewry.

The Jerusalem Post, for instance, reported about a high-school senior from Washington, D.C., who had applied to four universities in the U.S. but, after October 7, 2023, decided to start her bachelor’s degree at Hebrew University’s Rothberg International School. According to the article, she “is among many recent high-school graduates who have reconsidered their college plans in light of the anti-Israel protests that [have] swept across U.S. campuses.”

In addition to moral decline, America should, in its own best interest, be concerned about the potential brain drain caused by pushing Jews out. History shows that that action has never ended well for any country.

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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; australia; canada; college; france; israel; unitedkingdom

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1 posted on 10/03/2025 1:49:07 PM PDT by karpov
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To: karpov

That’s happening in the Ivy League. Its not happening in the South or the Midwest in general.


3 posted on 10/03/2025 1:53:15 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: karpov

Such students could go to Yeshiva University. Also, the University of Chicago has not had the same historoc friction with Jews as the Ivy League, and I suspect that STEM-centric schools like MIT don’t have it as bad as Harvard and Columbia.

I don’t know how the smaller, but still selective colleges like Haverford and Swarthmore are. (extra-liberal, of course, but not necessarily of the anti-Jew variety).

They might consider schools that are nominally Christian, but invite Jews, but still turn off Muslims. I don’t know how many Muslims would go to Moravian College.


4 posted on 10/03/2025 1:55:26 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Dr. Sivana

Touro University has overtaken rainbowed Yeshiva University for Jewish students seeking a comfortable Jewish atmosphere. Beis Medrash Govoha is now the go-to ‘centrist Orthodox’ rabbinic school.


5 posted on 10/03/2025 2:02:56 PM PDT by jjotto ("...saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau...")
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To: karpov
How far could one get in an Israeli university without being fluent in Hebrew? I had a one-year position at a university where one of the Jewish professors would have considered relocating to an Israeli university but he didn't think he could become fluent enough in Hebrew. Of course expectations for faculty might be higher than for students.

Some of the most brilliant scholars in the US in the decades after WWII were Jews who had managed to escape from Europe in time, or they would have been killed by the Nazis. How many brilliant scholars, scientists and doctors never were able to make their contributions to mankind because their lives were cut short because of one man's idiotic hatred of Jews (well, with the help of Germans who put him in power)?

6 posted on 10/03/2025 2:25:43 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: jjotto

Used to be columbia u was a comfortable place for Jews to attend. I’m astounded by the change today.

There was a very slow transition over 30 years from the 1930’s to the 1960’s of CU going from an institution like the rest of NYC —dominated by the old WASP establishment in NYC to being an institution like the rest of the big institutions in NYC dominated by Jews.

But this recent change at Columbia U seems different—though I know the ground has been shifting in NYC since the assassination of Meir Kahane, back in about 1990.


7 posted on 10/03/2025 3:23:40 PM PDT by ckilmer
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To: karpov

Circa 1933: Hitler’s persecution of the Jews began in 1933, the same year he became Chancellor of Germany
. While the systematic mass murder of the “Final Solution” began in 1941, the persecution was a gradual process of implementing discriminatory laws, propaganda, and violence.

The Jewish Brain drain of Germany happened prior to WWII. They fled Germany, amongst them the best in science and physics, and math. This cadre of Jewish engineers and chemists, and physicists, and mathematicians made the atomic bomb for us. In WWI these men and mostly their fathers were loyal Germans fighting for Kaiser Wilhelm and Germany. If the Jews were not persecuted by Hitler they would have made the atomic bomb for Germany and we would have lost the war. They were German Jews loyal to their nation that turned on them.


8 posted on 10/03/2025 3:27:59 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, MAGA)
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To: cpdiii

Compared to most countries before WWI, Germany probably was one of the least anti-semitic countries in Europe.

If anything, it was the Austrians, like Hitler, that brought the Anti-Semitism to Germany after WWI.


9 posted on 10/03/2025 3:37:20 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: karpov

My, my.

What say the anti-semites at FreeRepublic?


10 posted on 10/03/2025 3:39:36 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: karpov

If you have two entities competing against each other, and one choses the best, while the other chooses based on diversity, you know which one is going to win. This applies across nations as well.


11 posted on 10/03/2025 4:51:49 PM PDT by alternatives?
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