Letter to the editor: University double standards

Last week’s congressional hearing into the evil antisemitism that exists in our country’s elite universities has shown the blatant double standard there. Pro-Hamas demonstrations and anti-Israel protests are permitted at these schools, allowing Jewish students to be threatened and harassed, and nothing is done by the so-called leaders to protect their Jewish students or even condemn these actions.

I applaud Republican U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York for her brilliant questioning of the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, MIT and Harvard that exposed them. They all admitted the antisemitism shown in these demonstrations is not considered discrimination, but is a “matter of context.” Really?

These institutions and many others routinely allow anti-conservative speakers to be canceled on their campuses while extreme left, anti-American and sometimes pro-terrorist speakers seem to be welcomed.

I my opinion, the feeble responses from these three women to the simplest of questions exposed the double standard that exists, not only in these institutions, but in liberalism in general. It is a failed ideology, and this hearing shows that liberals always are what they claim to hate.

Penn president Liz Magill has resigned under pressure. The other two ought to follow. And all Americans should come forward to support Republicans’ efforts to combat the double standards that exist everywhere in our culture.

Bob Jacobs

Unity