With all the turmoil on campus across the nation, I thought a reminder of the tough Arab neighborhood Israel exists in with a map of the Arab League:

How many of the protestors can even find Israel on the Map? Anyway, on to my post.

It’s as if a sign declaring Juden Betreten Verboten, Jews, entry forbidden, is hanging on Deering Library on the Northwestern University (N.U.) campus. My alma mater has informed the world Jews are no longer welcome. I never thought I’d ever see this day. To placate Hamas supporters that occupied Deering Meadow, the ample open space in front of the library with tents and ant-israel paraphernalia, the university showered the protestors with goodies if they would leave—scholarships and professorships, along with special accommodations. 

Why would a University reward those siding with Hamas, a terrorist organization dedicated to destroying millions of Jews? The truth is the school has a long history of anti-semitism. Only a few years before I enrolled in 1955, Jews were subject to a hard quota. During the time I attended N.U., it started to ease its policies not only toward Jews but Blacks and others. For instance, removing the required photos on entrance applications increased black admissions in the ’60s. Still, quotas lasted until 1964. Integrating fraternities, sororities, and housing brought people of different backgrounds together, which was a subject we worked on. I was proud of the direction and progress.

These constructive steps gave way to racial preferences in place of quotas, and sponsored segregated living quarters instead of integration became University policy. As the years went by, I found a pronounced leftward drift. When the highly regarded lecturer Joseph Epstein left, it confirmed in my mind that Northwestern had gone woke. Accordingly, my support waned.

Like so many once-respected Universities, N.U. A left-leaning faculty dominates it with a significant difference: its lucrative campus in Qatar. That’s right, Northwestern has a branch in Hamas’ leadership’s hometown. Students there pay significantly higher tuition. With seemingly endless Arabs willing to pay up, it provides a growing revenue stream. 

The Anti-Defamation League has condemned N.U.s actions, but who needs the Jewish fourteen percent of the Evanston student body when wealthy Arabs are more remunerative?

People ask how N.U. can be anti-Semitic when the President, Michael Schill,  is Jewish? There are always people willing to do dishonorable things to stay in the good graces of the group who made their success possible. After all, falling out with the woke left cost Epstein his place at the school, which is the downside of not following the left’s narrative.

The N.U. president isn’t the only person of Jewish heritage to choose their left-wing group rather than support the survival of the greatest concentration of Jews in the world. The Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, has gone so far as to demand the ouster of the Israeli prime Minister, even though he heads a national war cabinet. Why? Schumer is a man of the left and hates Netanyahu, a man of the free market right, supported by U.S. Republicans. The implied threat is that if you don’t elect a leader we approve of, we’ll cut U.S. aid even though it could endanger Israel. 

Along with a Jewish academic and a Jewish political leader, we can add a featured media figure, the New York Times featured columnist Thomas L. Friedman, as an example of Jews with ambivalent feelings about Israel’s survival when it conflicts with the desires of the progressive left. Remember, the New York Times also has a history of anti-Semitism.

Joining Schmer in hatred of the Israeli Prime minister, Friedman tells us, “All of this is creating a huge headache for President Biden, who has done more to save the Israeli people from Hamas and Iran than any other American president but has been frustrated by an Israeli prime minister who is more interested in saving himself. Biden’s support for Netanyahu is now costing him politically and curtailing his ability to take full advantage of the changes in the Arabian Peninsula. It could also cost him re-election.”

Friedman isn’t above twisting the truth to undermine an allied government. Rather than restraining Iran and its support for Hamas, Biden made billions available to finance terror. Lifting sanctions on Iranian oil alone gave the mullahs a considerable windfall. The changes in the Arabian Peninsula and other Arab states and relations with Israel were well underway, as evidenced by the Abraham Accords under the Trump administration. The Trump administration expected Saudi Arabia to join the Accords. 

If anything, Biden’s enrichment of Iran made possible Hamas’ terror attack and the present war. It was preventing the Saudia Arabianb-Israli Accords that were behind Iran’s support of the attack. As a “Mideast Expert,'” Friedman must know all this but still tows the left’s line. Like Schumer and Schill, he puts loyalty to the left’s narratives above truth and heritage.

If Israel is feeling betrayed by some Jews in high places in the U.S., some previously allied groups also have turned their backs. Eugene Robinson, for decades, has been the Washington Post’s go-to guy for Black opinion. While acknowledging, “I am also old enough to remember the important and supportive Jewish allies played in the civil rights movement that delivered African Americans from second-class citizenship,” he goes on to claim, “The students do know some truths, though: that Palestinians were dispossessed of their homes and property; that Israel is strong and the Palestinians are weak; that the Israeli government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows no interest in a just peace; and that tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians have been killed in Gaza.”

Surely, Robinson knows only the 700,000 Palestinians who fled and threw their lot with the Arab armies attacking just-birthed Israel in 1948 lost their homes and possessions—those who stayed now number over two million and have enjoyed full Israeli citizenship. 

Conveniently, he fails to mention the over 850,000 Jews driven from Arab lands, losing everything. Unlike the Arab nations, Israel incorporated refugees into their country. Most of the Palestinians who left and their offspring still live in refugee camps. Even though respected statisticians have challenged Hamas’ casualty figures, Robinson accepts them.

He tells us, “Israel is strong and the Palestinians are weak,” but Palestinians are Arabs, and Israel has fought wars of survival against Arab nations. One only has to look at the Map at the beginning of the post to arrive at relative strength.

What we have learned is how willing some Jews and former allies are eager to dishonor themselves to maintain their place in the progressive left. In the 1930s, there were kindred people, and it didn’t work out well for them and those they turned their backs on.