When you understand that, you can understand why NYU’s administration and its manifold social justice groups, who have sent out five-alarm-fire emails about shootings in Atlanta, Derek Chauvin’s conviction, and anti-Asian bigotry, have never breathed a word about Jews in their backyard being beaten in broad daylight. We have never been admonished to say the name Mindy Ferencz. Or Josef Neumann. Or Moshe Deutsch.
It is why, when NYU students wearing kippot in the West Village have been harassed and stalked and told they aren’t “real Jews” but slavers and usurers, we are met with little more than a shrug. The other day a man on the subway stood over me—I wear a kippah and therefore can’t pass—and told the whole car that black people were still enslaved to me because the Jews are cultural kingmakers.
Sorry, you tell us. That’s just life in the big city. Your suffering is not systemic, so it really doesn’t warrant our attention. You say Jews are powerful—rich, white, influential—so why should a few incidents cause concern?
