Students in the West are taught the supreme value of resistance. It is Foucault who said that the enemy - the oppressor- cannot be identified, therefore it must be fought through resistance. In the last decade, there have been many resistance movements and protests, all without concrete demands: against climate change, against the extinction of animals, Wall Street, etc. It was inevitable that ultimately it would focus on the Jews.
I am not afraid of antisemitism. We Jews lived in Europe for centuries as tolerated foreigners, without civil rights. We were not accepted in universities, we were beaten on the streets. Those drunken, stupid peasants were pestering us, but we were steady and prospered.
The current anti-Jewish encampments at American universities will turn us inside and make us stronger. I am not worried.
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