Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a new focus for his agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, on combating anti-Semitism. This initiative comes amidst various public health crises, including measles and bird flu outbreaks. The Trump administration criticized Columbia University for inadequate responses to anti-Semitic harassment of Jewish students and is reviewing the university’s federal contracts and grants. Critics argue that public health officials should concentrate on actual health issues rather than social problems like anti-Semitism, which is described metaphorically as a societal plague that harms free speech and civil rights on campus.
Anti-Semitism-like racism-is a spiritual and moral malady that sickens societies and kills people with lethalities comparable to history's most deadly plagues.
Censorship and false narratives of woke cancel culture have transformed our great universities into greenhouses for this deadly and virulent pestilence.
Columbia has struggled to protect both the Title VI rights of its Jewish students and the free-speech rights of its Palestine-aligned activists.
Federal bureaucrats in the Department of Education have an obligation to monitor campuses that get federal funds to ensure that both of those rights are adequately protected.
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