History Of Anti-Semitism At Wellesley College

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Postings by Students for Justice in Palestine have invited equations of Zionism with “genocide,” “apartheid,” and “murder.” Jewish students feel under assault, without support from indifferent college administrators or inept Hillel staff.
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Like its Big Brothers -- Harvard, Yale, and Princeton -- and other Seven Sister colleges, Wellesley designed its admission policy to cultivate and perpetuate a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite. This challenge became all the more imperative after World War I, when hordes of socially undesirable candidates with academically superior credentials -- in a word, Jews -- threatened to inundate the academic citadels of privilege.
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More than sixty years later, a Jewish alumna still remembered the oblivious freshman classmate who had complained to her: “Isn’t it awful how Jews turn up everyplace and how they have horns.”
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In May 1934, the German battle cruiser Karlsruhe sailed into Boston harbor flying the swastika.[. . .] Wellesley arranged a reception for the German naval cadets on board and welcomed them to the College for a dance.
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a resolution was introduced condemning and repudiating “the history and legacy” of anti-Semitism at Wellesley. But what seemed so self-evident and necessary to a handful of Jewish faculty members quickly became bogged down in a swamp of evasion and avoidance. Would the pattern of discrimination be perceived as institutional, or would it be reduced to the isolated acts of individuals who just happened to be college presidents, trustees, deans, and faculty members? Would discrimination targeting Jews be specifically identified and condemned -– or would anti-Semitism vanish amid vapid declarations of universal tolerance?
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Respected Wellesley classics scholar Mary Lefkowitz noticed that Martin taught a Wellesley course containing erroneous assertions, popular among Black nationalist scholars, about the imaginary Afrocentric origins of ancient civilization. When she complained, the (Jewish) Dean of the College politely told her: “He has his view of ancient history, and you have yours,” a display of intellectual relativism that stunned the classical scholar.
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a rising leader in the Jewish student community (and future rabbi) wrote pointedly in the college newspaper: “I did not come to Wellesley expecting to learn what it felt like to be hated or demonized because I was Jewish,” while college administrators “stand idly by.”
Wellesley embraced a redefinition of “minority” that excluded Jews.
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it remained difficult for Jewish students to realize that when Wellesley made them feel uncomfortable, frightened or confused about being Jewish, that meant something was wrong with Wellesley, not with them.
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Stunned by the mendacious public postings by Students for Justice in Palestine, Jewish students once again feel battered, without support from indifferent College administrators, passive Jewish faculty, or the now deposed Hillel staff members.
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At Wellesley, as on campuses worldwide, malevolent Israel-bashers equate repression with academic freedom.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/12/antisemitism_at_wellesley.html

December 7, 2014
Anti-Semitism at Wellesley
By Jerold S. Auerbach