- DEI & Operation SIG: The Antisemitic Mutations of ‘The Limitation of Numbers’ on College Campuses
- What the Rescue of an Israeli Bedouin Hostage Revealed
Any Jewish college student returning to school or entering college for the first time this semester deserves a medal of (non-military) bravery. Gone are the days of what is now considered more ‘genteel’ antisemitism which infected the Ivies from the 1920s – early 1960s, termed the ‘Limitation of Numbers.’ During that era, Jewish enrollment numbers were severely curtailed to not let ‘the Jewish problem’ get out of hand.
At Yale, a folder in the school archives, labeled ”Jewish Problem,” contains a memo from the Admissions Chairman of 1922 urging limits on ”the alien and unwashed element.” By 1923, the admissions committee launched the Limitation of Numbers policy, instructing Jewish enrollment be held to about 10 percent; this continued for four decades.
Similarly, Columbia and Harvard began to seek ‘geographical diversity’ to keep the number of Jewish students at a minimum. In fact, nearly every facet of the college admissions process – the personal interview, capping freshmen year classes, character assessments, outside interest inquiries, and the infamous legacy connection – was meant to keep Jews out. At Columbia, the very Office of Admissions was created for the purpose of keeping the Jew out. And it was not just the Ivies, Stanford University out West also severely curtailed Jewish enrollment, and this antisemitism trickled down to hundreds of schools across the nation.
It is ironic that the Ivy League system taught Hebrew, even included Hebrew in many of their school seals. How did that come about? Throughout many decades of the 1700s, Hebrew was considered a Classic language (along with Latin and Greek) at particularly New England schools. In some schools, all freshmen were required to learn Hebrew while at others, like at Harvard, only upperclassmen.
Before 1800, only one Jew graduated college in America. His name was Judah Monis, and he graduated with a Masters of Arts from Harvard in 1720. He wished to become a professor post-graduation. Harvard agreed on the condition of two terms: he only teach Hebrew and he convert to Christianity. Judah agreed to both and converted to Christianity a month prior to starting his job. But both Christians and Jews did not take his ‘conversion’ seriously, and with good reason as Jews are an ethnicity and a race so it is impossible to stop being a Jew, only possible to adopt a faith not associated with the Judean culture. Ask any Converso Jew even today.
From the 1800s – the early 1900s, Jews were allowed to study at American universities, but their numbers were small in comparison to the Protestant students. Many Jews, both the Sephardim, who were the first Jews to arrive to America, and the mostly German Jews were, for the most part, joining their family businesses instead of pursuing learning the classics.
However, education, in many forms, has been central to the Judean culture for thousands of years. Despite the obstacles, and with the massive influx of Jews from Eastern Europe, Jews on campuses greatly increased by the early 1900s. Both The City University of NY (CUNY) and Hunter College in NYC had Jewish enrollment at over 50% by 1920.
Before the Limitation of Numbers, in 1921, Harvard had an ‘appalling’ 20% Jewish enrollment, and for the Ivies and numerous other colleges, the inclusion of Jews at such high numbers could not continue as it would, in their eyes, dilute the White Anglo-Saxon pedigree of the elite institutions. In the book, “The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton,” this one passage stands out the most:
“There were Jews to the right of me, Jews to the left of me, in fact they were so obviously everywhere that instead of leaving the Yard with pleasant memories of the past I left with a feeling of utter disgust of the present and grave doubts about the future of my Alma Mater…Are the Overseers so lacking in genius that they can’t devise a way to bring Harvard back to the position it always held as a ‘white man’s’ college?”
At Rutgers, a non-Ivy League school, a mob of White students attacked Jews in 1917.
Jews were also discriminated against in housing and employment, across the country. It was not until 1968 that Jews could live in certain areas of Florida. Housing discrimination against Jews was firmly in place in parts of Illinois and in Michigan. Only in 1968 were Jews finally allowed to purchase property in areas of Southern California. Even hotels discriminated against Jews, leading Jews to create The Jewish Vacation Guide, in 1916. This guide inspired the 1936 publication of the Green Book, a travel guide for Black people.
The end of WWII ushered in the winding down of admissions assault on Jews across campuses, for two reasons: 500,000 American Jews joined the war effort as enlisted soldiers, and it was seen. The GI Bill came into existence, opening universities to diversity across the spectrum.
However, like much of the antisemitic virus across centuries (since the advent of Christianity), the end of formally restricting Jews morphed less than a decade later (beginning in 1967) to anti-Israel antisemitism via a calculated propaganda by the USSR, in the form of Operation SIG.
Operation SIG was both the evilest and the most antisemitic ‘genius’ idea (from a PR standpoint) constructed by the KGB. When the Bolsheviks seized power from the Kerensky interim government, which replaced the Czarist rule of Nikolai II, the incoming government had in its ranks a significant number of Jews. They made antisemitism completely illegal, punishable with extensive prison time (up to 10 years).
However, Jews were a minority in a vastly Slavic antisemitic nation (the Russian Orthodox Church routinely lied that Jews killed Jesus (a Jew) and spread the same blood libels against Jews as other Christian sects). That WWII was devastating for Russia is an understatement, and under Stalin, Jewish influence in the government of the USSR waned. With that came state sponsored antisemitism, which was rapidly rising by the early 1950s.
The USSR was the first entity to legally recognize Israel at the UN in 1949 (Israel was not admitted to the UN In 1948), so what went so diabolically wrong? Afterall, it was the USSR that provided a significant number of weapons to Israel in 1948, not America. The Cold War. Both America and the Soviet Union were looking for loyal friends worldwide, and so the USSR assumed that (then) Socialist Israel, would be a natural vassal state. Israel thought otherwise due to the rising antisemitism of the USSR, many Jews in Israel finding out about the gulags, and wanting to seek the alliance of the more powerful U.S. During the 1956 Suez Canal War, Israel sided with France and UK (the U.S did not support Israel’s actions and in fact threatened Israel to give back both the Sinai and Jewish Gaza to Egypt; Israel capitulated).
The building blocks of Operation SIG were being formed.
The Soviets ramped up weapons shipments to the Arab nations against Israel, and in 1967, just like today Israel is not just fighting Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, the Arab occupiers in Judea & Samaria, etc but also Iran — so too, was Israel fighting a proxy war with the USSR in 1967. Israel ‘dared’ to win that war, thus bashing any hope that Israel could be beaten militarily by any Arab nation. The USSR went into full panic mode and decided that the only way to beat Israel is on the world stage through propaganda – the Arabs fully bought the lies. The West at the time was slow to accept that Israel was a ‘Nazi state’ and a ‘colonizer’ and so the Soviets utilized the gullible liberal Academia and NGOs to spread their vile Jew-hating virus.
The invention of ‘the Palestinians’ came with the Operation SIG anti-Jew campaign, which lasted officially from 1967 – 1988. Never mind that Jews IN Israel from 136 AD – 1948 were called Palestinians, and it was the colonizer term for Jews IN Israel for 1,812 years while the Jewish homeland was being occupied. Essentially what the USSR did was inverse the historical truth about Israel – it labeled an indigenous population (Jews) as an occupier of an invader population (the Arabs).
There was barely a decade of antisemitic reprieve on college campuses.
The decades of Operation SIG’s deep entrenchment in colleges (which continues today), would eventually morph into DEI.
DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) is a racist concept overall, which hurts women, Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans who are hired based on race and lowering standards, and does not take into consideration qualifications. The most high-profile example of a DEI hire is Hamas Harris when she was chosen as VP. Jihad Joe mentioned several times that he ‘has’ to pick a woman of color. Forget the fact that she received 1% of the Democrat primary votes in 2020, she is a woman, half Indian, half Black and thus checks all the liberal racist boxes. DEI does not inspire excellence in women and minorities, it reduces entire demographics to identity checkmarks.
DEI loves all races except the White race, Asians, and Jews. DEI has been used vociferously to push Asian students out of top universities across America. The same universities that targeted Jews for nearly 40 years through admissions, are now doing the same to Asians. But for Jews, DEI is a double attack.
The Jewish watchdog group, SAFE Campus writes the following on DEI and Jews: ” DEI, mandated by the White House (2011 – 2017; 2021 – current), is a pogrom against Jews. In DEI, the “E” for Equity is the tool to accomplish a re-balancing of people. It points an arrow targeting and discriminating Jews.
At CUNY, the largest urban university in the U.S with 25 campuses and 230,000 people, of the top 80 senior leadership positions including campus presidents, as of April 2023, there were ZERO Jews remaining. They have all been pushed out. In NYC, with a 20% Jewish population, how is this possible? DEI.
At UCLA, since Jennifer Lucero, a DEI-fixated dean took over UCLA medical school admission in 2020, Jewish students have become virtually nonexistent. Despite being highly qualified, Jews are being refused entry. Non-coincidentally, half of trainee doctors at UCLA’s medical school are failing basic tests and are not fit to practice medicine. Why? DEI.”
DEI mirrors not just the cleansing of Jews beginning about a century ago initiated by the Ivies but is akin to one of the Nazis’ first goals, to cleanse Jewish professors and administrators from their positions in academia. In 1933, Germany passed the “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service.” The goal was mostly achieved by 1935. In 1933, the “Law against Overcrowding in Schools and Institutions of Higher Educations” set strict limits on the number of Jewish students permitted to attend all levels of schools – public, private, and universities.
DEI is a neo-Marxist ideology that strongly echoes the antisemitic laws of Nazi Germany. Never forget that the Nazis were not ‘right wing’ but were Socialists. Nazism was an offshoot of Socialism.
Delving further into DEI, the concept is built on the false theory that the world is divided into two groups: the oppressors and the oppressed, with Israel labeled as a ‘genocidal, colonialist, settler’ ‘state’ – ergo, vilifying Israel is not only acceptable, it is just in the eyes of the liberal DEI worshipers.
What we are seeing on college campuses is the toxic marriage of Operation SIG and DEI. Not enough attention is being paid to what Jewish students are experiencing. It is not just the terror encampments, it is Israeli students being told by their professors that they are ‘baby killers,’ it is Jewish students being assaulted physically, their ‘Chai’ and ‘Magen David’ necklaces being ripped, swastikas painted on dorm doors, mezuzahs ripped down.
In students’ own words, from Columbia via the Columbia Task Force on Antisemitism, “One Israeli student reported that when she went to health services in July, no one came in to see her and she overheard a discussion between two healthcare professionals in another room saying they would not treat her because she was Israeli.”
“One Columbia student who moved into her dorm room in September had placed a mezuzah on her doorway. After October 7th, people began banging on her door at all hours of the night, demanding she explain Israel’s actions. She was forced to move out of the dorm.”
“A Professor in the Masters of Public Health program extensively discussed, by name, Jewish donors to Columbia University, calling them “wealthy white capitalists” who “laundered” “dirty money” and “blood money” at Columbia.”
The above quotes are just from one school. For those who follow what is going on in detail, know that the incidents are not unique and are repeating across numerous schools.
At the University of Maryland, President Pines who is weak as they come, permitted the reinstatement of ‘Keffiyeh Thursdays.’ Keffiyehs, over the centuries, morphed into a symbol of terrorism against Jews. The keffiyeh was stolen from Jews. Kippas were not worn by Judean ancestors, but began in Babylonia, and did not spread to Israel until the Middle Ages. Both genders of Jews traditionally wore a sudra, a keffiyeh-like head covering. Over time, Arabs forbade Jews from wearing our traditional garb, and, as dhimmis (second class citizens) across Muslim lands, many of which Jews lived in for far longer than any Arab, Jews were voiceless.
At a community college, De Anza College, in California, a former DEI Director (who is not a Jew) quit over the antisemitic practices of the college. Dr. Tabia Lee shares, “Critics called me a “dirty Zionist,” and the school refused to promote any Jewish events. I then pushed the administration to issue a strong condemnation of antisemitism.
My request was refused. Some campus leaders and colleagues repeatedly told me I shouldn’t raise issues about Jewish inclusion or antisemitism. I was told in no uncertain terms that Jews are “White oppressors” and our job as faculty and staff members was to ‘decenter Whiteness.’ The school had hosted a Chanukkah party that featured no Chanukkah imagery but plenty of pro-terrorist protesters.
The student body had passed resolutions on ‘divesting’ from Israel – the first college of its kind to do so – and criticizing Israel’s ‘attacks against humanity.’ I have never encountered a more hostile environment toward the members of any racial or ethnic or religion group.”
This Nazification of collegiate students is not just limited to America. I watched a video late last week where the University of Geneva was a sea of terrorist flags, with antisemitic signs all over campus. Hundreds of students and faculty were participating. Imagine being a Jewish student on that campus. Or most campuses anywhere today.
Jews cheered upon the announcement of Columbia’s President stepping down. I did not celebrate. She will be replaced with another DEI-focused, anti-Israel administrator, as that is the pool that is available across much of academia.
What can be done? First, Jewish alumni all need to stop donating to their schools if even one antisemitic incident has occurred. Personally, I stopped all donations to my undergrad, American University, in 2014 when I read about their anti-America actions (anti-American sentiment and antisemitism goes hand in hand) and anti-Israel events. Similarly, I stopped donations to my grad school, Columbia, shortly after graduating, after realizing that even the Hillel on their campus was inept at pushing back on antisemitism. Second, is to provide real Zionism education to the remaining Jewish students on campuses. Zionism education that uses accurate, non-antisemitic terminology, and teaches how to push-back with confidence in class and within extracurricular activities, within conversations with their peers, those who are non-violent. We cannot allow Jew-hating lies to go unchecked.
There is also the reality that within the anti-Israel space, operate several Jewish groups such as IfNotNow and Jewish Voices for Peace. JStreet is another one. 100% of these groups’ claims are based on antisemitic lies, as if lifted from the Operation SIG blueprint.
The only real long-term hope, and the details of which need to be flushed out further, is President Trump’s suggestion of the weapon of losing federal accreditation, and thus federal funding (a tool even private colleges greatly rely on), for those schools who allow antisemitism. President Trump also expanded Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, to include Jews as a race, which allows Jewish students to sue universities who enable anti-Zionism antisemitism. Races have homelands, faiths do not. Republican Chairwoman Elise Stefanik also deserves praise for bringing to light the issue of campus antisemitism to the nation via the recent Congressional hearings.
As of now, there is no future for Jews at any liberal campus, including many of the Ivies. It is time to accept that, and shift focus to more Conservative schools. Unless pursuing law, medicine, or engineering, college is dead anyway. These days, work experience counts far more than what college one attended, and the courses taken. And an increasing number of employers are refusing to hire graduates from the more notorious antisemitic campuses, especially those who have been in the news more recently.
Attending these schools is like boarding a sinking ship.
More information is being released from the Bedouin hostage who was rescued recently. The details he has shared (below) proves several truths which the liberal media attempts to cover up:
- October 7th was 100% a Jewish genocide. The non-Jews who were murdered and taken hostage just happened to be caught up in the murder spree. Another Bedouin, whose story I had shared previously, recounted that Hamas terrorists stormed his farm looking for Jews. None of the terrorists or Gazan civilians were hunting for non-Jews.
- That the civilians in Gaza were wholeheartedly in favor of the Jewish genocide. Not only does Farhan recount the cheering from the civilians inside the hospital, but numerous released Jewish hostages (from the November hostage deal), shared the similar reaction of the Arab occupiers in Gaza when they were first kidnapped into Gaza. With many civilians also spitting and beating up the severely wounded hostages.
- We are not dealing with a nation. We are dealing with genocidal subhumans. Like Farhan mentioned, if the Muslim terrorists were able to treat him so poorly, a fellow Muslim – never mind that most Bedouins in Israel and Jordan are genetic Jews (descendants of Jews who settled in the Hejaz after 586 BC) – they have been practicing Muslims since the 7th century, when they assimilated in the Arabian Peninsula – we cannot treat Hamas as a negotiating partner. Sadly, not all Jews understand that. The current American government certainly does not comprehend that fact.
Mr. Al-Qadi’s testimonials to the IDF will be invaluable, given all the conversations in Arabic he overheard during his nearly one year in captivity.
Unfortunately, the next screenshot in the series could not be uploaded. But below continues Farhan al-Qadi’s information:
“In the hospital, he met 86 year old Aryeh Zalmanovitch who had significant wounds. Initially they were together, then terrorists took Farhan into a separate room within the hospital with some other Thai hostages captured on October. 7th.”
Am Israel Chai!