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6 | APRIL 25 • 2024 
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opinion

Elite Universities Fail to Make the Grade
I

n the past several 
years, and especially in 
the aftermath of Oct. 
7, American campuses 
generally have become 
cesspits of Jew-hatred (often 
flimsily disguised as “anti-
Zionism”, but 
rank bigotry 
nonetheless). 
Students, 
parents and 
donors have 
been clamoring 
for guidance on 
how to respond. 
Now we have it.
The Anti-Defamation 
League has released its 
Antisemitism Campus 
Report Card, which provides 
a withering assessment of 
conditions on America’s 
most elite colleges and 
universities. Of the 85 

campuses surveyed on a 
letter-grade basis, only 
two, including historically 
Jewish Brandeis University, 
received an A. Every Ivy 
League school except 
Dartmouth College 
performed abysmally, getting 

Ds and Fs (Dartmouth 
earned a Gentleschool’s C). 
Many other of the nation’s 
most elite and selective 
institutions, including the 
Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology, Stanford 
University and my own alma 

mater — the University of 
Chicago — flunked out.
So, where do we go from 
here? The ADL has blazed 
the path for us admirably; 
now it’s our turn to step up.
One of the many dirty 
secrets about college 

David 
Gemunder
JNS.org

Pillars on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif.

MICHAEL WARWICK/SHUTTERSTOCK.

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