{"id":13132,"date":"2025-07-30T17:04:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=13132"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:04:05","slug":"right-leaning-faculty-likelier-to-be-hostile-to-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=13132","title":{"rendered":"Right-Leaning Faculty Likelier to Be \u201cHostile\u201d to Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A new report from Brandeis University researchers concluded that 7\u00a0percent of non-Jewish faculty polled during the spring semester at \u201cvery high research activity\u201d universities showed \u201ca pattern of explicitly hostile views toward Jews as a people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cIdeology in the Classroom\u201d report, released last week, says an additional 3\u00a0percent of non-Jewish faculty \u201chad a pattern of views about Israel that are generally described as antisemitic\u201d by Jewish organizations and Jewish students. And while 11\u00a0percent of non-Jewish faculty who self-identified as extremely liberal were \u201chostile to Israel\u201d\u2014a view \u201cvirtually non-existent among all other political identities, including other liberals\u201d\u2014the faculty \u201cwith more conservative political views, including those who were the most critical of DEI, were the most likely to be hostile to Jews.\u201d <\/p>\n

Over all, though, the report says 90\u00a0percent of non-Jewish faculty were hostile to neither Jews nor Israel. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe results confirm our earlier research findings that Jewish students are more likely to experience hostility from their peers than from faculty,\u201d the authors wrote. They added that \u201cgovernment efforts to punish universities as a whole for their lack of viewpoint diversity and failure to address antisemitism are not well targeted to address these challenges. For example, STEM faculty, who are less likely to teach about contentious political issues, are the most likely to be profoundly harmed by the government\u2019s cancellation of federal research grants.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leonard Saxe, one of the authors and the Klutznick Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies and Social Policy at Brandeis, told Inside Higher Ed<\/em> that faculty \u201cdon\u2019t appear to express any interest in imposing their own political or ideological views on students.\u201d Saxe said, \u201cFaculty need to be seen as allies\u201d in resolving the problems underlying the conflict between the government and universities regarding antisemitism and diversity more broadly. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey want the same thing,\u201d Saxe said. \u201cThey want to teach students how to understand diverse perspectives, multiple perspectives. They don\u2019t want to make every single issue political.\u201d<\/p>\n

Graham Wright, another author and an associate research scientist at Brandeis\u2019s Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, said that to the extent antisemitism is an issue on some campuses, it\u2019s \u201cnot necessarily due to the actions of large numbers of faculty, but a smaller group.\u201d <\/p>\n

The report found that almost half of Jewish faculty were somewhat or very much concerned about antisemitism on their campuses, and they were \u201cmore concerned about antisemitism emanating from the political right than the political left.\u201d This \u201ccan be attributed in part to the political makeup of Jewish faculty,\u201d the authors wrote, noting that more than 80\u00a0percent of Jewish faculty identified as liberal and about a quarter as extremely liberal.<\/p>\n

Using a statistical model, the researchers also sought to predict hostility from non-Jewish faculty based on their holding certain beliefs. They concluded that \u201cfaculty who more strongly agreed that Israel was an apartheid state\u201d were likelier to be hostile to both Israel and Jews. And they found no statistically significant difference between academic areas in levels of faculty hostility after controlling for other factors. <\/p>\n

The study grouped faculty into these categories of \u201chostile to Jews,\u201d \u201chostile to Israel\u201d or hostile to neither based on their pattern of agreeing or disagreeing with seven statements. <\/p>\n

The statements were: <\/p>\n