By Eliora Katz
Originally published in the Chicago Maroon
I’m afraid that this is how a UChicago student can go through his day—waking up and checking the UChicago Secrets page on Facebook to find post #4145 with 39 likes:
“I secretly think that President Zimmer doesn’t exist, and that if you were to open the door to his office, you would find a table full of elderly Jewish men making all the decisions and just passing themselves off as a single reclusive individual.”
Later, he would find his way to one of the bathrooms in the bookstore and notice the graffiti on the stall: “Jewish men run the CIA,” it reads. He opens his reading for Sosc to hear Marx claim that malicious capitalists are “inwardly circumcised Jews” (Capital, Volume I ). In other words, Marx associates the source and propagation of sinister economic forces with the jew. He then goes to see Steven Salaita, a professor whose job offer was rescinded at University of Illinois, presumably because of a string of strongly worded anti-Israeli tweets—like “I wish all the fucking West Bank settlers would go missing” after three Israeli boys were kidnapped, or “Zionists: transforming ‘anti-Semitism’ from something horrible into something honorable since 1948” (Note the quotes around anti-Semitism as if it’s nonexistent). At the event Salaita paints a picture insinuating that Jews control academia and silence views they don’t like.