Yad Vashem Chairman Says Campus Antisemitism Like Cancer, Warns Problem Could Become ‘Terminal’ for Universities

Pro-Hamas students rallying at Harvard University. Photo: Reuters/Brian Snyder

Antisemitism on American college campuses is comparable to Stage 2 cancer, and if allowed to progress to Stage 4, academia will be “doomed,” the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel’s national memorial to the Holocaust, told The Algemeiner a day after presidents of elite US universities refused to issue a condemnation of genocidal calls against Jews and Israel.

According to Dani Dayan, institutions of higher...