Historical fact: Martin Luther attempted to ban the Book of Esther (and erase it from the Bible). He was horrified that it showed Jews taking their own destiny into their own hands and defending themselves:
Likewise, Below we see an (NYT) article that attempts to undermine the work of the Brandeis Center dedicated to defending American Jewish College Students currently experiencing one of the more insidious forms of antisemitism, Jew-hate aimed at an extremely vulnerable demographic: 18-21-year-olds away from home for the first time, besieged by foreign students on purchased blood money visas, and the college administrators who are seeking to hide this blood money bonanza for their college coffers — all of them hiding behind the claim of violating these foreign student visa holders first amendment rights to free speech.
(here, immediately below is a Romirowsky reading on these ‘Foreign student visa holders’ and their blood money tickets to American academic institutions — all of whom prey on the physical security and emotional health of American Jewish Students and just as sadly, on the now former quality of American academia writ large:
Romirowsky writes: https://romirowsky.com/27634/antisemitism-college-campuses) < this is not the NYT piece I cite above)
Excerpt: Here’s a snapshot of what it’s like to be Jewish on an American college campus these days: In Tulane, a Jewish student engaging classmates who were burning the Israeli flag was assaulted and had his nose broken.
In Columbia, a verbal exchange about the war in Gaza escalated into an altercation, with a Jewish student hit forcefully on the head and sent to the hospital.
Pro-Palestinian students at Harvard marched openly through campus, calling for an armed uprising that would lead to the eradication of the world’s only Jewish state. Death threats, harassment, exclusion—these are now the rule, not the exception, on the quad.
How did we get here? How have we allowed our venerable institutions of higher learning to turn into fetid swamps of violence and bigotry, rekindling and mainstreaming the world’s oldest hatred? It’s a grim and complicated question. But, thankfully, it’s one that also offers a fairly simple answer.
How do we make college campuses sane again? Two words: Deport and defund.
This ^ would be the greatest Purim joke of all . . . . if it weren’t so dangerous to the physical security and emotional health of the Jewish students I cited above.
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Now here below is that staff writer for NYT attempting to undermine in both tone and content the work of the Brandeis Center to defend Jewish Students. This is essentially the same strategy as that carried out in Martin Luther’s attempt to erase the Book of Esther, a book that horrified Luther as it demonstrated the Jews taking control of their own destiny by defending themselves.
American Universities and the Jews
The Man Who Helped Redefine Antisemitism/NYT March 24th,
The writer of this NYT article displays a not-so-hidden, intentional bias against the work that Kenneth Marcus is doing to combat the antisemitism now prevalent in American College Campuses, along with College Administrators who seek to camouflage the antisemitic double standards they currently utilize to disguise this new college Jewhate, — This is just one of the newest antisemtisms that have emerged in the brave new world of intersectional antisemitism.
The chapter (yet to be written) detailing the Jewish experience on American College campuses in the first quarter of the 21st Century should perhaps now fall under the nomenclature of: “Where College Administrators, DEI, Wokeness, Intersectionality, Jewhate along with all of the old antisemitism(s) can now meet comfortably.
How wonderfully ironic to see this NYT writer’s not-so-hidden agenda in seeking to (not so subtly) compromise the work of the Brandeis Center to end the humiliation of American Jewish students on American College campuses.
The discrimination that Jewish students face today on Campus mirrors the not-so-distant claim of Haman — all of which is aimed at the existence of the Jews, or as he says: “a certain people.”
The students in these colleges (many of them on those purchased foreign student visas cited above) are notorious for their attempts to distort the truth of the national origin of the Jewish people, and distort our connection to the Land of Israel, the very homeland from which we were viciously expelled and savagely exiled.
A Land not forgotten by a People that doesn’t forget . . .
Psalms Chapter 137 תְּהִלִּים
| א עַל נַהֲרוֹת, בָּבֶל–שָׁם יָשַׁבְנוּ, גַּם-בָּכִינוּ: בְּזָכְרֵנוּ, אֶת-צִיּוֹן. | 1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. |
| ב עַל-עֲרָבִים בְּתוֹכָהּ– תָּלִינוּ, כִּנֹּרוֹתֵינוּ. | 2 Upon the willows in the midst thereof we hanged up our harps. |
| ג כִּי שָׁם שְׁאֵלוּנוּ שׁוֹבֵינוּ, דִּבְרֵי-שִׁיר– וְתוֹלָלֵינוּ שִׂמְחָה: שִׁירוּ לָנוּ, מִשִּׁיר צִיּוֹן. |
3 For there they that led us captive asked of us words of song, and our tormentors asked of us mirth: {N} ‘Sing us one of the songs of Zion.’ |
| ד אֵיךְ–נָשִׁיר אֶת-שִׁיר-יְהוָה: עַל, אַדְמַת נֵכָר. | 4 How shall we sing the LORD’S song in a foreign land? |
| ה אִם-אֶשְׁכָּחֵךְ יְרוּשָׁלִָם– תִּשְׁכַּח יְמִינִי. | 5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. |
| ו תִּדְבַּק-לְשׁוֹנִי, לְחִכִּי– אִם-לֹא אֶזְכְּרֵכִי: אִם-לֹא אַעֲלֶה, אֶת-יְרוּשָׁלִַם– עַל, רֹאשׁ שִׂמְחָתִי. |
6 Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember thee not; {N} if I set not Jerusalem above my chiefest joy. |
An important cite from the Scroll of Esther is in remembering that Esther and Mordechai are Jewish refugees from Jerusalem — an Exile they survive, from a homeland they are forced to flee from . . . .
Esther, chapter 2: 5-7
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At this moment in time, perhaps we should remind ourselves, as I often do, that the empires and peoples who have sought to destroy us have all been consigned to that great ash heap of history — and we are still here.
