Anti-Semitism at Rutgers isn’t all academic Featured Column Anti-Semitism at Rutgers isn’t all academic Robbing Jew-hatred of its particularity is the aim of Students for Justice in Palestine. But university administrators can be colluders through cowardice. (June 1, 2021 / JNS) It’s a little hard to combat a phenomenon by kowtowing to its promoters, but leave it to academia to make a feeble attempt at doing so. Having spent the past few decades favoring sophistry over the imparting of knowledge, American institutions of higher learning are well-versed in double-speak. Imagine their surprise, then, when even their best efforts at intellectual manipulation are met with derision by the very “woke” bullies whom they aim to please. Take the latest brouhaha at New Jersey-based Rutgers University as a case in point.