No free speech at Harvard the Creme del a Creme of Private Institutions in the US shows the very notion of education in America has been severely diminished. If you add to it Alan Dershowitz’s name currently Israel’s choice of defense lawyer attached to a book he put his name to but seems never to have read just plagiarized you get a picture of Israeli education. Norman Finkelstein has shown for years that there has been a war of influence ongoing among America’s wealthy Jewish donors. Many of them have unwittingly been promoting the very antisemitism they claim to be battling

I can understand the frustrations of these donors. But to use their influence to force the ouster of these university presidents is an abuse of power

Yet not until now have major donors so brazenly used their financial influence to hound presidents out of office for failing to come out as clearly as the donors would like on an issue of campus speech or expression.

As a Jew, I also cannot help but worry that the actions of these donors – many of them Jewish, many from Wall Street – could fuel the very antisemitism they claim to oppose, based on the age-old stereotype of wealthy Jewish bankers controlling the world.

Source: Powerful donors managed to push out Harvard’s Claudine Gay. But at what cost? | Robert Reich | The Guardian