On CNBC's “Squawk Box” broadcast Thursday, Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League said the situation of anti-Semitism on college campuses “doesn't seem to have changed. It's still bad. It's still terrible,” and argued that “tenure needs to be rethought” to combat faculty anti-Semitism.
“We're only a few weeks into school and it seems like literally nothing has changed. The situation is still bad, it's still terrible. … It's not getting much coverage in the media,” Greenblatt said.
He added that there are no organized encampments, but things have just shifted to the student population.
Greenblatt then turned to Cornell professor Russell Rickford, who praised the October 7 attacks but returned to campus, saying:[C]Can you imagine… a CEO of a Fortune 500 company slacking off, not focusing on what they need to do, having employees and saying, 'OK, no problem, we're back?' It's just so weird how things work in the ivory tower.”
“Tenure is like term limits, or the lack of term limits,” co-host Joe Kernen said. “I think tenure is one of the worst attributes that makes all of this worse. They can basically do whatever they want.”
Greenblatt responded, “I understand the utility of enabling scholars to do research, but as you say, the limitations of tenure, the tenure system, need to be reconsidered.”
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