How European Fecklessness Encourages the Islamic Republic’s Assassination Campaign
License to kill.
December 8, 2022
An often-arbitrary system that, more often than not, harms Jews.
In the universities and in the job market, America’s systems of racial and ethnic quotas have generally harmed Jews—whether by a design a century ago or in the name of helping other groups today. For precisely this reason, Ruth Wisse has argued that American Jews ought to oppose the efforts of colleges like Harvard to exclude Asian Americans. Behind such discriminatory policies are governmental systems designed to sort U.S. citizens by race, which are the subject of a new book by David E. Bernstein. George Will begins his review by citing an example of a Jew named Steve Lynn, who, unusually, benefitted from a quota:
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Neither victims nor collaborators.
A faithful Catholic will be careful never to accept anti-Jewish animus masquerading as criticism of Israel.
Bills of exchange.
An often-arbitrary system that, more often than not, harms Jews.