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At the heart of DEI is a simple binary: the world is divided between oppressors and the oppressed. Proponents of DEI cast white people as oppressors and black people as the oppressed. While they apply this frame primarily to America, they often apply it to Israel, too. Apparently, Israel is a bastion of Jewish whiteness, with a racist commitment to shattering the lives of nonwhite Palestinians. In fact, a colleague of mine—a former collegiate DEI director, no less—was told that Jews are “white oppressors” and that it was her job to “decenter whiteness.”
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In 2021, the Heritage Foundation’s Jay Greene (now a colleague at Do No Harm) looked at the Twitter feeds of nearly 750 DEI officials at 65 U.S. universities and found that 96 percent of their tweets about Israel were critical of the country or anti-Semitic. Many universities have all but muzzled their DEI departments in the past two weeks, doubtless fearing blowback from donors and the broader public. Yet no one should assume that silence suddenly means collegiate DEI departments stand with Israel.
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https://www.city-journal.org/article/how-dei-inspires-jew-hatred
