When Antisemitism Is Treated as Background Noise

When Antisemitism Is Treated as Background Noise

Universities have grown fluent in the language of harm. Administrators speak easily about hostile environments, symbolic violence, and the psychological burden of offensive imagery. In some cases, they act quickly: renaming buildings, removing art, or publicly acknowledging that no one should be required to work beneath symbols that demean them. But those instincts are not applied evenly. For months, as a faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College…