LARB | E Agneni/YU
It should by now be clear that the administration’s domestic agenda has major goals that are irrelevant to issues of antisemitism. Rather, these officials mean to target universities for perceived liberal leanings, to deport students on ideological grounds, to clamp down on sexual and gender freedoms, and, it is now evident, to roll back the hard-won achievements of the Civil Rights Movement…. Yet even now, astonishingly, much of this increasingly explicit far-right takeover—enforced by authoritarian measures reminiscent of Germany in the 1930s — continues to pose as a crusade against antisemitism. Perhaps even more astonishingly, this rationale continues to be taken at face value