Last year there were a lot of article about progressive Jews who suddenly realized their allies on the left saw them as the enemy. I wrote about a couple of instances here and here. So this isn’t a new phenomenon but even months later it still has the potential to shock some people.
Columbia University is getting the lion’s share of the attention right now but things are not going well at Berkeley either. Within the past few days there have been a number of stories in which Berkeley progressives express shock over the amount of anti-Semitism that permeates the campus. Let’s start with this story out today from Politico.
Liberal members of the state’s legislative Jewish caucus have publicly castigated UC Berkeley for its handling of hostility toward Jewish students and professors amid the war. They’re pushing state laws targeting antisemitism in response to the events —…
