As Fury Erupts Over Campus Antisemitism, Conservatives Seize the Moment – The New York Times

For years, conservatives have struggled to persuade American voters that the left-wing tilt of higher education is not only wrong but dangerous. Universities and their students, they ve argued, have been increasingly clenched by suffocating ideologies political correctness in one decade, overweening social justice in another, woke-ism most recently that shouldn t be dismissed as academic fads or harmless zeal.

The validation they have sought seemed to finally arrive this fall, as campuses convulsed with protests against Israel s military campaign in Gaza and hostile, sometimes violent, rhetoric toward Jews. It came to a head last week on Capitol Hill, as the presidents of three elite universities struggled to answer a question about whether calling for the genocide of Jews would violate school rules, and Republicans asserted that outbreaks of campus antisemitism were a symptom of the radical ideas they had long warned about. On Saturday, amid the fallout, one of those presidents, M. Elizabeth Magill of the University of Pennsylvania, resigned.

via www.nytimes.com

This is a somewhat remarkable concession by the NY Times — that conservatives have been vindicated by Hamas’s attack, its support on US campuses, and the reaction by the Three Blind Mice, as V.D. Hanson called the three hapless university presidents.

We’ll see.