What, No Cancelled Classes, Cookies and Legos For Students Upset About Attacks On Jews In Amsterdam? [Corrected] [Video]

What attacks on Jews in Amsterdam?

On the evening of November 7, scenes of Jews being ambushed and beaten on the streets of Amsterdam were appearing on social media. Most of the news media couldn’t be bothered to report this until days later, however. After all, colleges and public schools were worried about the mental health of their delicate students, traumatized dangerously by the outbreak of democracy in their country and a result that didn’t please them (or their parents, in the case of 10 years olds).

Georgetown, one of the universities that has a diploma with its name on it turned face to the wall in my office, invited students to a “self-care suite” while its McCourt School of Public Policy offered milk and cookies, hot cocoa, Lego blocks and “Coloring and Mindfulness Exercises” to keep students from plunging into the depths of despond. Harvard, the other school with a front-to-the-wall diploma in my office, …