The horrific attacks by Hamas on October 7 and the subsequent outbursts of antisemitism on American college campuses has led to calls for new programs to study antisemitism. But can we expect any serious efforts in that regard from our leading institutions? They are, after all, full of scholars who ideologically sympathetic to the enemies of Israel.

In today’s Martin Center article, Christopher Schilling argues that little good is apt to come from “antisemitism studies.”

He writes:

Nor do I see how the annual “Law vs. Antisemitism Conference,” which is “inspired by the history of Critical Race Theory” (CRT), can be helpful if papers claim that “white Jews” are “directly implicated in and often beneficiaries of our racist systems” and that they “in some cases helped propagate White privilege.” The conference organizer, a “Critical Race Theory person” (by her own description), speaks in her conspiratorial and ahistorical work about “Jewish benefit from white supremacy and white privilege” and a “Jewish complicity with anti-Black racism.” These conferences are well attended by antisemitism scholars. Kenneth L. Marcus, who served as assistant secretary for civil rights under the first Trump administration, has been among them.

If “antisemitism studies” is turned into just another excuse for CRT pontificating, who needs it?

Read the whole thing.