Oberlin College can't go 1 year without making the news.
Considering Oberlin is a cesspool of Progressiveness ....
Most of the the campus “pro-Palestine” rallies hold themselves out as political protests against Israel. But they inevitably show their true colors—they’re really attacks on Jews:
DEI is the lifeblood of woke campus ideology. Its purpose is to make everyone
feel good about themselves—and
exactly equal—at all times. So it can’t co-exist with a system that recognizes success on the merits, because students who fall short—especially if they’re academically mismatched DEI admittees—will feel “oppressed” by that system.
To protect the “oppressed,” DEI requires that you “dismantle” the systemically racist meritocracy built by the white “oppressor.” For years, schools have whittled away longstanding objective criteria for admitting students. When the
end of affirmative action loomed this past year, many universities had already undermined merits-based admissions by
eliminating mandatory SAT testing. Professional schools, we wrote
here, were toying with eliminating the
LSATs and the
MCATs. That makes the schools more “inclusive.”
Except for Jews. Meritocracy’s basic principles of fundamental fairness enabled them to succeed even when all the cards were
stacked against them. And now it’s dead.
DEI is simply reaching its logical conclusion. The same way it legitimized hating the white “oppressor” for succeeding on the merits, it legitimizes this insane hatred of the Jews who,
against all odds and after all this time, keep succeeding.
With antisemitism on the rise and meritocracy on the fall, it’s no wonder that
Jewish student enrollment is down at the woke Ivies. It’s almost as if that were the DEI endgame all along.
Landa Exposes Years of Antisemitism at Oberlin
And it comes as no surprise that a left-leaning woke liberal arts school like Oberlin is an antisemitic hotbed. Landa has been
documenting Jew-hatred there since 2014:
Oberlin is also home to
Professor Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, the “Professor of Peace” who has called for the destruction of Israel; we wrote about him
here.
Landa told Legal Insurrection that the focus of her complaint is anti-Israel activity at the school:
For many years, Jewish students at Oberlin have been targeted, ostracized, and harassed for their Zionism. They have faced hostility from student groups like Students for a Free Palestine and have heard Israel delegitimized and mischaracterized as an apartheid state by professors such as Mohammad Jafar Mahallati and the former Dean of Students, Meredith Raimondo. I, along with other alumni, have expressed our concerns to President Ambar, who has dismissed us, directing us to the campus rabbis to discuss our issues. We chose to discuss them with the Office of Civil Rights instead.
But antisemitism in the guise of anti-Zionism can be hard to prove. Legitimate free speech concerns and a political divide over Israel both provide cover for it. No matter how clear it is that Jew-hatred motivates them, critics say that attacks on Israel are protected speech, and anyone who disagrees is anti-Palestinian.
