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What starts with the Jews, rarely ends with just the Jews - with Yuval Levin

Call Me Back - with Dan Senor

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Impact of progressive ideology on academic institutions

Elite academic institutions are being overtaken by a progressive ideology that divides the world into oppressors and oppressed, defines justice as the liberation of the oppressed by any means, rejects constraints on attacking people perceived as oppressors, and openly reviles and attacks certain groups. This ideology has led to contemporary campus antisemitism, with Jews and Israel considered among the oppressor groups. The issue lies in the ideology's influence on the culture of the university.

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So look, our elite academic institutions are dominated by the left. That's not new. But as the left has changed, what it means for them to be dominated by the left is changed too. And here, I think over the past really 15 years by now, we've witnessed the campus culture become overtaken by a certain kind of progressive ideology, an ideology that, as I say, divides the world into oppressors and oppressed, defines justice as the liberation of the oppressors from the oppressed, and the liberation of the oppressed by any means, by whatever that means. And so that says that power is all that matters, and that groups that are perceived to be oppressors in the world can be excluded, can be fought, can be denounced, can be attacked, can be openly hated and reviled in any way and every way. It's a view that rejects both principled and procedural constraints on attacking people if they are in the oppressor groups, whether that's white America, whether that's corporate America, whether that, as we've been discovering, is the Jews in Israel. In a sense, part of the problem here with contemporary campus antisemitism is a function of the fact that Jews and Israel are considered among the oppressor groups in this view. And so they're being treated in a way that allows them to be openly reviled, openly rejected, openly attacked. And I would say this, I think it's important to see that the problem with that is not that the Jews are in the wrong category. The problem with that is that this ideology is how the culture of the university works now.

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