For years, Marianne Hirsch, a prominent genocide scholar at Columbia University, has used Hannah Arendt’s book about the trial of a Nazi war criminal, “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil,” to spark discussion among her students about the Holocaust and its lingering traumas.
But after Columbia’s recent adoption of a new definition of antisemitism, which casts certain criticism of Israel as hate speech, Hirsch fears she may face official sanction for even mentioning the landmark text by Arendt, a philosopher who criticized Israel’s founding.
For the first time since she started teaching five decades ago, Hirsch, the daughter of two Holocaust survivors, is now thinking of leaving the classroom altogether.
Columbia has chosen appeasement. Their president should inform their student body and faculty that there will be peace in our time, because appeased fascists have a long and storied history of working with those who appease them.
This isnt appeasement. Columbia has been at the forefront of cracking down on students and faculty including by direct violence.
They started under Biden already, so they only stepped up their game under Trump. This is who the university administration are. They are enemies of science, who see their job in indoctrinating rather than teaching.
They aren’t appeasing the fascists. They are willfully licking their boots.
They are the fascists?
Not before she has an agreement with Mr Trump that she can show off.