The Universities Have Abandoned the Jews. Should Jews Abandon the Universities?

Several years ago, Liel Leibovitz, then a young faculty member at New York University, was informed that he could not attend a seminar, led by a colleague, on the subject of boycotting Israel, since he was not himself in favor of doing so. More recently, the same school has given an award to its chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, an organization that has repeatedly harassed Jewish NYU students, sometimes violently. Leibovitz, surveying these and other recent incidents on college campuses, concludes that universities have ceased to be hospitable toward Jews: