Israeli President Isaac Herzog has written an open letter to the leaders of American colleges and universities, demanding that they show “moral leadership” in the face of rising antisemitism on their campuses since the Hamas terror attack on October 7.
The letter reads, in part:
Over many years as a leader in Israel, I have often returned to my days at Cornell and NYU. It was on these campuses that I gained critical thinking skills that have served me throughout my life. It was there that I was exposed to the highest standards of academic inquiry and of debate. I benefited from brilliant and patient faculty, from the diverse student body, and from the distinctly American atmosphere of intellectual freedom.
Never, as someone who has always looked up to the standards of the American university, could I have foreseen the images and voices that have reached me since the tragedy…
