Posted on 12/02/2023 5:29:31 PM PST by SeekAndFind
We are now well into the 2023-2024 school year and many high school seniors are either finalizing their college application plans or have already done so. But some of those plans are now changing at the last moment. This is particularly true in Jewish families and those of people who are closely affiliated with them. After seeing the massive outbreaks of antisemitic activism and even violence taking place, particularly at Ivy League schools, some Jewish students have withdrawn their names from consideration at universities such as Harvard. Once seen as the crème de la crème of collegiate destinations, the institution now simply looks unsafe for Jews and those who support them. (National Review)
Even if he were offered a full-ride scholarship to an elite university, Anton Frenk “would turn it down in a heartbeat.” The high-school senior from New York City would “have loved to go to Harvard, Yale, or any Ivy League School,” just a few weeks ago but that all changed after the Hamas attack of October 7.
“Seeing what’s happening on those campuses, I don’t feel that it would be worth it to have to fear for my life every single day just to get a quality education that I could find in an environment without that sort of cutthroat antisemitism,” the teenager, sporting black nail polish, a gaming headset, and flowing black hair, told National Review.
Frenk’s parents fled the former Soviet Union looking for a better future for their son. Although not raised strictly observant, like many American Jews, he goes to synagogue on high holidays, had a Bar Mitzvah, and wears a Star of David necklace. “I’ve had to hide it recently when I’ve been going into the city for various because I almost got attacked.”
The student featured in the excerpt above, Anton Frenk, said that he briefly considered abandoning his plans to go to college anywhere. In the end, he applied to some other, smaller colleges that hadn’t drawn so much attention for antisemitic protests and violence. The head of one organization specializing in helping students be accepted at larger, prestigious schools reported a sharp increase in contacts from parents who don’t want their children applying to Cornell or Columbia.
At least thus far, this isn’t looking like a short-term, transitionary issue. Once the bandage was ripped off and the underlying Jew hatred was exposed, it quickly seemed as if it might be impossible to put the antisemitic genie back in the bottle. Some of the worst schools, including the ones listed above, are obviously controlled by administrations and faculty where the same underlying biases run deep.
They’ve made a few guarded noises about working to ensure the safety of Jewish students, probably out of fear of losing even more money, but they’re not doing much to tamp down the “free speech” of their students who are marching in the campus square demanding the erasure of Israel.
The decay in the heart of our system of higher education system didn’t come out of nowhere on October 7. It’s been evolving for quite a while now. The nation’s college campuses have long been hotbeds for activism and social unrest, but the fundamental nature of such movements has changed. Back in my day, there were protests at schools, but they typically involved things like opposition to the war in Vietnam or occasional incidents of police brutality. Most of the students’ time was occupied with the work required to graduate and prepare for a professional career mixed with some raucous partying.
Today, however, we’re seeing a culture of indoctrination focused on immersion into a series of movements ranging from gender confusion to a perceived battle against the “oppression” of anyone who isn’t a straight, white, cisgender male. It’s amazing that they find time to study or take exams. Parents should have a significant voice in this debate since they are frequently the ones putting up significant amounts of money for their children’s secondary education. They should be voting with their wallets if they want to see these schools get back on track.
Good. Then, the best will not be flushed by our formerly respected Ivy League septic tanks.
This is one of the best ‘feel good’ stories I’ve read in a long time.
This is an interesting sociological development. Those colleges probably should have been avoided years ago, but better late than never.
Good. Then they actually stand a chance at NOT being brainwashed.
All schools are anti-Semitic commies.
Was the school of sociology created by FDR and the New Deal in order to enable Communism? Or is communism just an illness that has been around since Plato’s Republic?
I don’t blame them.
Exactly.
Yep.
The only problem I have with this is that the jews are nearly the only whites left in some of these ivys. If the jews go away, there will be few whites left at the ivys to break against the anti white leftism that resides there. For the rest, it will be high scoring indians and chinese plus low scoring affirmative action kids from a bunch of other countries and races. They’ll all agree that white people must inevitably be rooted out of all of America’s institutions for a whatever reason seems happy to them. And we will be ruled forever by people who hate us.
Other than NGO’s and Government positions, Ivy League credentials will become a kiss of death in the business world.
Odd how trends move slowly across the years.
Old days had the secret or even outright “Jewish quotas.” These limited Jewish applicants being accepted to universities regardless of merit and grades.
Most schools (Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Yale) had rigid quotas in place. “In 1935 Yale accepted 76 applicants from a pool of 501. About 200 of those applicants were Jewish and only five got in.” Dean Milton Winternitz’s instructions were remarkably precise: “Never admit more than five Jews, and take no blacks at all.”
Now apparently Jewish students are shunning the woke anti-semitic places. Good idea.
There are high quality international level Universities outside the West where students can do their studies or work on their doctorates. The world is changing, and this is no longer the 1930’s where it is the West and nothing else. There are the IIT’s (Indian Institutes of Technology) in India, the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, and numerous institutions elsewhere. If Obama’s and Biden’s minions cannot behave themselves, it might be reasonable to look around.
What about Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Miss. State, Clemson?
“There are the IIT’s (Indian Institutes of Technology) in India, the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, and numerous institutions elsewhere. If Obama’s and Biden’s minions cannot behave themselves, it might be reasonable to look around.”
The University of Hong Kong is taught in English as is Chinese University of Hong Kong. Neither of those play second fiddle to anyone.
Peking University in Beijing
Did you look at the incoming class at Harvard this fall? There were few jews or white American males. Lots of minorities, lots of foreigners.
IIRC about a third of the incoming class was Hispanic or black.
Heh heh heh.
Alabama’s enrollment is now around 54% out-of-state students. Probably has more to do with lower tuition and general expenses now, but there could be other reasons.
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