Professor Sherry is Professor Emeritus at Vanderbilt Law School. In 1997, she and Professor Daniel Farber wrote the book: Beyond all reason, criticizing critical race theory. Perhaps their most controversial argument is that Critical Race Theory denies that there is such a thing as an objective merit and that attributing all group differences to racism cannot explain the success of American Jews without resorting to anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. was implicitly anti-Semitic.
Professor Sherry, a political liberal, wrote a short follow-up, DEI and Antisemitism: Bred in the Bone. The summary is as follows:
Last October, progressive Jews were shocked by the blatant anti-Semitism displayed by their former allies on the political left. After Hamas terrorists tortured, raped and murdered more than 1,200 Israeli civilians and took about 200 civilians hostage, some liberals celebrated, especially on college campuses. They chanted the Palestinian mantra “from the river to the sea” as they sought to rid Israel (and the Jews) from the face of the earth. The number of anti-Semitic incidents on campus among both students and faculty has surged. A Stanford instructor herded Jewish students to the back of the classroom and labeled them “colonizers.” Jewish students were forced to barricade the Cooper Union library, and Jewish students at MIT were told by faculty to avoid the university's main lobby for their own safety. Many college presidents who previously sent campus-wide emails denouncing the killing of George Floyd, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Roe v. Wade, and numerous other world events are suddenly discovering the Calvinist doctrine and claiming it would be inappropriate. I did. Either take a side or make a weak statement about how complex the situation in the Middle East is. This double standard continued as some universities responded to students calling for the extermination of Jews by applying free speech principles. This principle has been particularly neglected when the speech in question is directed at different groups. Most campus diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices, especially those at elite universities, have said nothing about the surge in anti-Semitism.
This essay explains why no one should be shocked or even slightly surprised by the progressive response to the genocide. Critical race theory, anti-racism of the Ibram It is not surprising that these related movements have now publicly exposed their anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism grows in their bones.