New York Times reporter Kate Zernike, infamous here for her hostile coverage of the Tea Party, absorbed an interesting takeaway from the spectacle of three Ivy League college presidents who testified before Congress and refused to condemn anti-Semitic rallies on their progressive campuses: sexism! (She wrote about discrimination against women at MIT in a 2023 book.)
Zernike’s Monday piece, “Ivy League Campus Wars Aren’t About Gender … Are They?” wasted no time boiling down the troubling appearance of anti-Semitism on “elite” college campuses to a simplistic tale of male sexism:
In the first weeks of the war between Israel and Hamas, Nancy Andrews read about American college presidents under fire and something nagged at her.
Why, she wondered, did it seem like so many of those presidents were women?
Dr. Andrews…looked up the list of federal…
