Ritchie Torres
Joseph Massad, who is set to teach a course on the Haskalah (the Jewish Enlightenment), denies the antisemitism of October 7th. For Massad, the atrocities of 10/7–like the abduction of an eight-month year old Jewish child—is not an act of antisemitism. It is “resistance” to “Jewish colonialism in Palestine.” 10/7 apologists like Massad are modern oppressors of the Jewish people. To have the story of Jewish liberation told not by Jews themselves but by their oppressors is the ultimate perversion of higher education.