Not for a minute do I believe that the billionaires attempting to destroy higher education in this country are truly concerned about anti-Semitism. It’s merely the hook that has been given to them as the result of the war in Gaza. The point is to remodel higher education to turn it into a tool for reinforcing their hold on our political system. What’s truth got to with it, anyway? Right?
Some of the professors at UPenn are fighting back against the push by a billionaire alumni to destroy that institution. After he succeeded in forcing the college president out, he “sent a four-page email to university trustees titled “Moving Forward,” which many professors interpreted as a blueprint for a more conservative campus.” You know…every school should be like Hillsdale.
One of the protesting professors put it succinctly:
Some professors at the university say the attack on Penn is part of a conservative effort, begun by governors such as Ron DeSantis of Florida, to overhaul American higher education — an effort that is now spreading to dozens of universities, including Penn, Harvard, and Columbia University, which are now under investigation by the federal government over reports of antisemitism.
“This is an anti-democratic attack unfolding, not just at Penn, but all across the country, including at public universities in Florida, in Texas, Ohio, and beyond,” said Offner, the president of the university’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, a professional faculty organization.
Penn, she said, had become “ground zero of a coordinated national assault on higher education, an assault organized by billionaires, lobbying organizations, and politicians who would like to control what can be studied and taught in the United States.”
It would be nice to see some Democratic politicians coming to the defense of these institutions.
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