Understanding anti-Semitism, understanding Israel

Let’s begin by dispensing with the issue of what’s going on at Columbia University over accusations of bias and victimization in the department of Middle Eastern studies. The Columbia controversy is important as one local instance of a worldwide struggle. But as important as it is, we simply don’t have access to “the truth” in this matter; we don’t know for sure what happened in the “he said-she said” situation at Columbia and we shouldn’t talk, or write in The Student as if we did know. The Co