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It would take 200 years to eliminate criticism of Israel on college campuses. This is hardly what I'd call a crisis.
A few of my leftist friends in academia have been disillusioned by the obvious and spreading antisemitism, but regretably most of them, including secular Jews, don't seem to mind it a bit.
I worked very hard to try to prevent NYU from honoring Said with a special memorial service after he died. It was unprecedented to honor someone from another university in such a way. But I failed to persuade the people who involved, many of whom ironically were Jewish.
Ironically, an effort I launched many years earlier, to arrange a memorial service a year after his death for Ralph Ellison, author of "Invisible Man," who taught at NYU for a number of years, failed. It's all about political correctness.
Said was politically correct, even though he was an absolutely despicable antisemite and rabidly anti-American. Ellison was politically incorrect, even though he was black and wrote the greatest of all African American novels. But he wouldn't play the game.
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