Yale does not care about its Jewish students.
Every other Fall weekend, we were treated with cries of “Harvard sucks!” As Harvard’s football team would host one of its Ivy League rivals, hundreds of students from the opposing school would descend upon campus, paint the John Harvard statue their school colors, and try to shnorr a place to sleep with an old high school buddy. We were continuously told how terrible Harvard was, and we took it all in with a smile. It’s like a guy with an expensive Porsche being told that he has a lousy car. In the end, both he and the other guy know that he has an awesome set of wheels.
Yale University is named after a slave trader. One would have thought that students, faculty, and alumni would have raced to change the name of the school to something like New Haven Polytech or the like, but as with another school named after a racist—Stanford—not all bigots are created equal. Heaven forfend that students blowing close to $100k a year should not have YALE on their diplomas, resumes, and boxer shorts. Being woke has its limits, as we witness two millionaire Democrats flying private to talk against the “oligarchy.” You want them to take a Greyhound bus? Yale, named after a racist, actually has Hebrew as well as Latin words in its motto, which translate to Light and Truth. I would suggest that their president ask the Emir of Qatar how one writes such things in Arabic.
I recently saw videos of Jewish students at Yale being denied access to parts of the campus. One fellow is clearly identifiable as Jewish by his garb, and he makes clear to those who interfere with his movements that he is a fully paid-up member of the Yale community. His pleadings fell on deaf ears and over-the-nose masks. I sat dumbfounded that in 2025 an American Jewish student could be denied access to campus for the “sin” of being a Jew. How does this behavior differ from Nazi Germany of the 1930s where Jews were denied access to everything from stores to Aryan-only park benches?
Another question would be: what if this behavior was directed towards a different minority group? Let’s imagine a black student is trying to get to his Chemistry lecture, and a bunch of blond and butch white guys tell him that he can’t walk in the quad? What if the affected was treated the same way because she was Hispanic, trans, gay, liberal, or poor? Would the world simply shrug its shoulders? “Well, the Jewish guy wasn’t roughed up.” Or “Well, he was never in danger.” Is that our standard now? Are we going back to the days where a black person could be denied access to a store or service because of the color of his skin? And where was officialdom? Where were the Yale administrators to join arms with this Jewish student and march him right through the Hamas lovers? Where was campus police? Where were New Haven’s finest? There’s no Dunkin Donuts near campus?
One of the strange things we learned during the rule of Barack Obama was that justice is not a universal concept any longer in the United States. It all came out with the story of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman. The details of their fatal interaction are well-known and need not be repeated. What we saw was that many supported Martin simply because he was black. NBC went so far as to edit a call between Zimmerman and the police in order to make the shooter look like a bona fide racist. The New York Times invented a new term—"white Hispanic"—so as to pull Zimmerman out of the protected Hispanic class and get him into the always racist white group. The thing with the shooting was that if the roles had been reversed, the opinions of Al Sharpton and many others would also have flipped. Imagine a local resident, Martin, catching Zimmerman behaving strangely. After some interactions, Martin shoots Zimmerman dead. Wall to wall, from Barack Obama to the local newscaster, everyone would have said that Martin invoked his “Stand Your Ground” rights and did the right thing. The fact that the events were in reverse meant that the concept of justice had to be swiveled on its head as well because blacks always have to be victims in their interactions with “whites.”
And that is what we saw at Yale. There is no question that had the student who stood up for his rights been black, the left and its media lap dogs would have been howling on the continuing racism found in America. If the student denied the freedom of movement on his own campus was some trans spokesman for Bud Light, we would receive never-ending lectures about how deplorable and garbage-like Americans can be. But it was a Jew. And for over 18 months, Jew haters have had free reign at dumps like Yale and Harvard. They can demand an “intifada revolution” when everyone knows that in the 2000-2006 second intifada, over a thousand Israelis were murdered. They can howl “Palestine from the river to the sea," explicitly demanding that a U.N. member state simply cease to exist. And the administrators did nothing. And the campus police did nothing. And the powerful men and women who really run the schools, like the clowns at the Harvard Corporation, did nothing. Because it was the Jews who were treated like dogs—and that’s OK in their eyes.
Joe Rogan and a guest mentioned recently that Jews tend to stick together. If one looks a bit closer, there are many issues here in Israel and abroad that can divide Jews. Listen to the screaming at the Knesset and one might come to a different conclusion than the podcaster did. Still, when things are bad Jews realize that many others don’t give a fig about them. In the first minute after the bombing in which my son and I were injured, a young man came up to me and said that he would help. He identified himself as an IDF-trained medic and began to look over our son. On paper, we had very little in common: he was not outwardly religious, he was a professional dancer, and he was Israeli. I was a religious American biochemist. But under the circumstances we became instant blood brothers. We were always grateful for his fast action and stayed in touch with him for years after the attack.
I can now say with all of my strength, “Yale sucks!” And so do Harvard and many other supposedly elite schools. The only reason they allow this junior terrorist cosplay is because the campus victims are Jews. Remember university presidents: God’s keeping score. I look forward to them getting their comeuppance. Since Yale is into Hebrew words that they don’t understand, they might try the first line from Psalm 94: “The Lord is a God who avenges. O God who avenges, shine forth.”
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