Alan Dershowitz and Noam Chomsky agree on almost nothing politically but both say that anti-Semitism was deeply rooted in the United States in the last century. They made the specific charge about Harvard University speaking in very different settings this spring.
Thursday, May 22, 2025
I think the first Jewish maths professor was appointed while I was there in the early '50s. One of the reasons MIT (where I now am) became a great university is because a lot of people who went on to become academic stars couldn't get jobs at Harvard-so they came to the engineering school down the street.
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15:39
it's not that trump doesn't have a point, it's that this is a stupid way to deal with it.
However, Chomsky questions the wisdom of boycotting Israeli academic institutions. "If we boycott Tel Aviv University because Israel violates human rights at home, then why not boycott Harvard because of far greater violations by the United States?" Chomsky writes. "Predictably, initiatives focusing on [academic boycott] have been a near-uniform failure, and will continue to be unless educational efforts reach the point of laying much more groundwork in the public understanding for them, as was done in the case of South Africa."
i haven't seen a survey, but i would strongly suspect approximately 0% of academic jews support a boycott of harvard to combat anti-semitism. i would challenge you to find me a single jew that supports this. it's utterly foolish, and it will severely harm the united states.
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15:28
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