Lowman: 5 countries, 5 approaches: How the Anglosphere is—and isn’t—fighting antisemitism on campus

Useful comparisons and reminder of the limits of government in terms of culture change:

….But policy may only go so far. A funding freeze can force a university to write a new complaints procedure. A report card can force administrators to define antisemitism on paper. Neither can write the syllabus of an antisemitic professor, or talk a 19-year-old student out of despising the Jewish student sitting next to him in the lecture hall. Governments can regulate what institutions do; they cannot legislate what students and faculty believe.

Whether Washington’s funding cudgel, Canberra’s grading system, London’s disclosure regime, Ottawa’s diffusion, or Wellington’s silence proves most effective will ultimately matter less than something none of these governments can directly control: whether campus culture itself changes at all.

Source: 5 countries, 5 approaches: How the Anglosphere is—and isn’t—fighting antisemitism on campus