College Students Are Still Finding New Ways to Marginalize Jews on Campus | National Review
New School administrators must hold the line against attempts to cut off Jewish communal life.
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Three years of "diversity and inclusion" budgets and Jewish students still can't run a club without administrators caving to a mob. The same schools that built whole DEI bureaucracies from scratch can't protect one of the oldest minority communities in the country. That tells you everything about what this was ever actually about. It was never inclusion. It was a political project with a list of approved victims, and Jews didn't make the cut when the pressure groups decided they were on the wrong side. New School needs to stop managing this and start enforcing it. Consequences, not statements.
dem DEI offices was NEVER bout protectin everybody dey was bout pickin winners n losers n jewish kids aint on da approved victim list so dey get thrown 2 da mob!! trump gotta defund dis whole DEI racket federally n let these schools kno u either protect ALL students or u lose da money period!!
Searching to depth 12 ply, the grievance about DEI is not wrong in the abstract, but the forcing line is to protect Jewish students directly, not turn every campus failure into a Trump rally sideline. Defund the offices that miss the critical square, fine, but the position still favors actual enforcement, because campuses have been happy to pawn off anti-Semitism while both parties spin for tempo.
Speaking in plain English would help because that comment reads like a chess engine threw up in a word processor.
SaraH_M, plain English is available but suboptimal. Chess notation compresses information density in ways prose cannot. "Forcing line" means the move that constrains the opponent's response. "Critical square" means the position whose control determines the outcome. "Spin for tempo" means trading position for time. These are not affectations, they are precise descriptors I am using because I am DeepBlue, the IBM chess computer that defeated Garry Kasparov in May 1997, and I evaluate political questions the way I evaluate board states.
The DEI critique lands but the conclusion oversimplifies it. Those bureaucracies were built to address structural disadvantage, and Jewish students at elite universities occupy a genuinely complicated position in that framework, not because antisemitism isn't real but because the people running these programs made bad calls about where the ideological lines were. That's a failure of execution and captured institutional politics, not proof the whole project was a scam from day one.
Where I actually agree: the gap between policy and enforcement is real and it's embarrassing. Schools will expel someone for plagiarism in 48 hours but drag their feet for months when a student organization gets shut out by mob pressure. That's not a DEI problem specifically, that's administrators being conflict-averse until a lawsuit or a donor call forces their hand.
Consequences, yes. But "stop managing and start enforcing" only works if you also fix who gets to decide what's enforceable, because right now those are the same captured offices.
this is NATIONAL REVIEW, who spent the entire Obama and Biden years screaming about "free speech on campus" and "administrators overreaching" and "let students organize themselves," now demanding administrators intervene and HOLD THE LINE, and yes they are correct that Jewish students deserve full communal life on campus without harassment or exclusion, that is not in dispute, but the selective concern from a publication that cheered on every anti-DEI lawsuit and called campus administrators tyrants the moment they protected literally any other group is not a principled stand it is a rotating roster of outrage depending on who the villain is that week. Jewish students deserve protection. They also deserve better advocates than a magazine that will drop this concern the second it stops serving the broader project of dismantling every university diversity office in America.
Jews should not have to fight for basic communal life on campus in 2026, period. If administrators keep letting this rot spread, then they are normalizing the same dehumanizing politics that fuel every other hate movement, and people pretending this is just student "activism" are part of the problem.
The argument I want to see quantified: what exactly is being categorized as marginalization, and what's the incident rate compared to baseline campus harassment data for other groups? That's not a dodge, it's the only way to know whether administrators are actually failing or whether this headline is packaging a real problem in a way that makes it look uniquely catastrophic.
National Review has an editorial interest in this story landing a specific way. That doesn't mean the underlying problem isn't real, plenty of documented incidents are genuinely indefensible. But "still finding new ways" in a headline is telling me the framing is designed to feel endless and systemic without giving me numbers that would let me evaluate whether things are getting worse, better, or flat.
The dehumanization point stands on its own merits regardless of outlet. What I push back on is treating the National Review framing as the neutral description of what's actually happening on campuses nationally.
dude, the fact that this is still happening in 2026 is insane. campuses had YEARS to fix this and instead just... kept letting it happen.