Fake Left-Wing Hysteria and Actual Left-Wing Antisemitism

Some sanity from media? Well it is from the Tennessee Star, not what I would call the national media. (Maybe it should be.) Commentary: From One Fake Left-Wing Hysteria to the Next

First the anti-Trump talking points: The Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. Lawfare is not Lawfare, but only the legal process. "The walls are closing in." (and the more recent...) The stock market is crashing. 

Then the pro-Biden, pro-Democrat talking points: Biden is sharp as a tack. Biden's administration did not see a recession. COVID wasn't from a lab. The US didn't fund gain-of-function. There was no censorship. etc.

And more. All enhanced by the national media bias in favor of Democrats, and the Biden administration, and against Republicans, Trump in particular.

But then Victor Davis Hanson, at the Tennessee Star, turns his sights on academia, and Harvard in particular.

First, academia in general.

Private, multibillion-dollar endowed elite campuses took billions of dollars in easy federal money—despite endemic anti-Semitism, flagrant flaunting of U.S. civil rights laws and court decisions by continuing to use racial and gender biases, lucrative but unsavory financial partnerships with illiberal regimes of the Middle East and communist China, spiraling annual tuition costs exceeding the annual rate of inflation, 40-60 percent surcharges and overhead gouging of federal grants, and nonexistence of First Amendment protections for visiting speakers and lecturers, and on and on.

But Harvard earns special attention.

Why did it only now and so suddenly rush to end its sister-campus relationship with the terrorist-supporting Birzeit University on the West Bank, or why now replace directors of its radical Center for Middle Eastern Studies program—in a fashion it never had previously dared even after the massacres of October 7?

Then, news of a joint China-Harvard program abroad suddenly surfaced. Allegedly, Harvard had aided members of what some have called a Chinese “paramilitary organization,” despite that group previously being sanctioned for its role in the Chinese state violence conducted against the Uyghurs—a fact that apparently did not surface publicly or perhaps even particularly bother any of the usually hypersensitive and quick-to-demonstrate Harvard students and faculty.

Shortly thereafter, a comprehensive Harvard in-house anti-Semitism report surfaced, documenting in detail the routine harassment of and threats to Harvard Jewish students. In truth, even if it wished to, Harvard now could not control its out-of-control and institutionalized anti-Semitism.

There is more, how they gave $65,000 to law student who attacked, physically, a Jewish student during one of the recent "protests" and was actually arrested for it.

Click thru for the entire take. It is worth your time. (Hat tip to Knuckledraggin My Life Away)