US universities are seeing an influx of ‘antisemitism centers’. Some Jewish scholars are worried

Political pressures are resulting in a range of initiatives that experts say substitute expertise with ideology At the University of Washington, a group of faculty who felt the campus had grown too “anti-Israel” set out to build a new academic center to tackle what they view as antisemitism. “Jewish students, faculty, and staff found themselves isolated, facing hostility, and witnessing the normalization of anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric,” the faculty wrote about the environment for Je...

By Alice Speri