The divisive, anti-American ideology of diversity, equity, and inclusion doesn’t belong in any educational institution, and that includes a university that describes itself as “rooted in Jewish thought and tradition.” So argues Naomi Grant Risch in today’s Martin Center article.
She writes:
Yeshiva University takes its name from a Jewish study hall, where dissenting views and passionate disagreements are encouraged. However, YU’s institutionalization of DEI — a profoundly rigid, intolerant ideology — flies in the face of what a yeshiva is.
Risch points to courses where students must absorb DEI notions about anti-racism and health equity. For example:
One tenet of DEI is the assumption that all white people (or those perceived to be white, including pale-skinned Jews) are racist and biased against non-“white” people and that all able-bodied people are biased against the disabled, sometimes without realizing it. As such, a required course for the PhD in Clinical Psychology with a Health Emphasis at YU’s Ferkauf School of Graduate Psychology, “PSA 6181: Multicultural and Diversity Issues,” “strongly encourages the student to explore his or her own biases regarding . . . clients of various ethnic and cultural backgrounds and with gender and sexual orientation problems, and with clients who are physically challenged.”
Risch’s conclusion is stark: “If an Orthodox Jewish university isn’t safe from DEI, no one is.”