8 absolutely crazy things that happened in 2016 that make community and private college look better and better

6. College safe spaces became dangerous for Jews

Another looming threat on college campuses surged in 2016: anti-Semitism, and it wasn’t by neo-Nazis but the so-called “tolerant” Left.

Writing about the rise of anti-Semitism on American college campuses in the Washington Post, Anthony Berteaux details how safe spaces are extremely dangerous for Jewish people:

When Arielle Mokhtarzadeh arrived at University of California, Berkeley, to attend the annual Students of Color Conference, she had no way of knowing that she would be leaving as a victim of anti-Semitism. …

For Mokhtarzadeh, an Iranian Jew at UCLA, her freshman year was punctuated by incidents of anti-Semitism that were both personal and met with national controversy. She was shocked during her first quarter in school when students entered the Bruin Cafe to see the phrase “Hitler did nothing wrong” etched into a table. Months later, Mokhtarzadeh’s friend Rachel Beyda was temporarily denied a student government leadership position based solely on her Jewish identity, an event that made news nationwide.

The campus was supposed to be her new home, her new safe space — so why didn’t she feel that way? She went to the conference hoping for some answers.

But on the first day there, she was horrified when the discussion became an attack on Israel — and soon devolved into attacks on the Jews.

“Over the course of what was probably no longer than an hour, my history was denied, the murder of my people was justified, and a movement whose sole purpose is the destruction of the Jewish homeland was glorified. Statements were made justifying the ruthless murder of innocent Israeli civilians, blatantly denying Jewish indigeneity in the land, and denying the Holocaust in which six million Jews were murdered,” she said. “Why anyone in their right mind would accept these slanders as truths baffles me. But they did. These statements, and others, were met with endless snaps and cheers. I was taken aback.”

Mokhtarzadeh walked out on the verge of tears. “It was in that moment, during that conference, that I realized that every identity and every intersection of identity was to be welcomed and championed in progressive spaces — except mine.”

She’s not alone, though – because safe spaces aren’t safe for anyone except whiny children and whiny professors who don’t want to confront any ideas different from their own. They’d rather deal in straw man arguments and logical fallacies that compete in a truly free marketplace of ideas.

It turns out, progressives don’t want to stick up for the actual persecuted after all. Those of us who have been paying attention aren’t all that surprised.

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