When Wokism bites the Wokes.

 The ongoing war that started with the October 7th pogrom has brought about numerous collateral victims, both within and beyond the war zones. Among the most notable casualties is the well-deserved decline of the overrated and unjustly esteemed reputations of the Ivy League universities and several others.

Many of those who welcomed the replacement of classical humanities—shaped by European dead, white, males like Kant, Locke, Montesquieu, Erasmus, and Rousseau—with a new narrative rooted in the struggles of the oppressed against the oppressor, as advocated by living, non-European, non-white, non-binary intellectuals such as Kimberlé Crenshaw, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ibram X. Kendi, were not bothered by the growing support among professors and students for anti-Western, anti-Liberal, anti-democratic values that this new intellectual fashion provoked. 

The current war, that in the Woke infected minds of professors and students made of Hamas and the antisemites the ‘oppressed’ and of Israel and the Jews the ‘oppressors’, changed everything for the Israel loving alumni donors who now threaten their former Almae Matres with a ‘donor rebellion’.

This sparked a wave of sarcastic and resentful comments from right-wing, conservative, and white-supremacist circles, staunch opponents of Wokism from its inception. These groups hold Jewish alumni donors to be partly or entirely responsible  for the hegemonic spread of this disastrous ideological fashion.

Although Jewish alumni may promptly identify these comments as largely antisemitic, simply dismissing them doesn't exempt them from recognizing their involvement in perpetuating Wokism. The harmful and insidious impact of woke ideology, often disregarded when it affects others, only becomes evident to them in its true magnitude when it is directed against them.