Anti-Semitism: Old Omissions, New Excuses

After his recent visit to the United States, Yad Vashem’s president, Dani Dayan, claimed to have perceived a significant change in the discourse of the country’s university rectors against anti-Semitism. Contrary to what he experienced on campuses about six weeks after October 7, 2023, when he returned dismayed to Israel because “the calls for the elimination of Israel were explicit,” Dayan said that “this time, the tone is completely different.…