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DEI on Campus
The Writing Is on the Wall for Jewish Students
We must challenge professors and students who tacitly endorse antisemitic violence in the guise of ‘resistance’
BY THOMAS ULLMAN
The DEI Complex Will Never Protect Jews
The problem isn’t that the system—of affinity groups, diversity officers, microaggression policing, and more—hasn’t included Jews until now. It’s that the system itself is dangerous.
BY ARMIN ROSEN
It’s not about diversity, equity, or inclusion. It is about arrogating power to a movement that threatens not just Jews—but America itself.
BY BARI WEISS
Number of the Day from The Scroll
6
→ That’s the number of middle schoolers Massachusetts police on Thursday charged with “threat to commit a crime” along with two others charged with “interference with civil rights” for posting racist messages—including slurs and references to a “mock slave auction”—in a Snapchat group, the Washington Examiner reports. In a statement, Hampden, Massachusetts’ District Attorney Anthony Gulluni said: “There is no question that the alleged behavior of these six juveniles is vile, cruel, and contemptible. Seeing it, and facing the reality that these thoughts, that this ugliness, can exist within middle school students, here, in this community, in 2024 is discouraging, unsettling, and deeply frustrating.” The behavior may well have been “contemptible” and a matter for the school to handle, but we would humbly submit that the existence of “vile … thoughts” within the heads of “middle school students” has not traditionally been a matter for law enforcement in the United States.
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Michael Lind chronicles civilizational shifts and national trends, writing about American politics and culture with a deep understanding of history and appreciation for America's highest ideals.
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