After World War I, my aunt and uncle came to the United States from Poland, followed by my thirteen-year-old father and my grandmother in 1921 much to the annoyance of Madison Grant, author of Passing of the Great Race. Grant feared Jews and Italians immigrating to New York City would outbreed the Anglo-Saxons. Grant warned, “the Jew. Whose dwarf stature, peculiar mentality…are being engrafted on the stock of the nation.” To Grant and other immigration restrictionists, keeping out Jews was necessary to prevent the mongrelization of the nation.[1]  Jews and Italians must be kept out to prevent the replacement of the Anglo-Saxon race by the inferior races from eastern and southern Europe.[2]  Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act in 1921 just as my family entered the United States, to keep out Jews like my father, but he and my Grandmother slipped into Brooklyn before the law went into effect. [3] In 1924 Congress approved the National Origins Act to shut the doors tight by an even more restrictive law to severely reduce the immigration of Jews and Catholics from eastern and southern Europe.[4] For New York City it came too late because by the mid-1920s Jews comprised 28% of the city’s population and 400,000 Italians lived in New York.[5]  My mother outsmarted Madison Grant by immigrating to Canada from Poland, becoming a Canadian citizen, before leaving for New York City.

The neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, egged on by President Trump and his love of the “good” neo-Nazis shouted Jews will not replace us[6] . Sorry guys, we already have! The ravings of Tucker Carlson and Congresswoman Greene are a repetition of the racist and antisemitic replacement theory of Madison Grant. Carlson tried to clean up some of the antisemitic ravings of one of his second-rate guests, but the thrust of the performance remained a blatant public endorsement of Jew hatred. [7] Also, President Trump appeared oblivious to the antisemitic statements of his dinner guests when he met with antisemitic speakers while out of office. [8] 

Nothing has changed in one hundred years, but a new crop of antisemites peddling the same racial theories about the great replacement or Jewish power using George Soros instead of the Rothschilds as their cover for their hatred of Jews[9] . A Republican candidate that ran for governor in Pennsylvania attacked his Jewish Democratic opponent for attending Hebrew schools, once again defining Jews as the “other” not normal like good Christian Americans. [10] 

Unfortunately, members of the Gang of Four on the leftwing of the progressive Democrats buy into the same antisemitic stereotypes peddled by Congresswoman Greene and the right wing of the Republican Party. In particular, Democratic Congresswomen from Minnesota and Michigan have not hidden their simplistic bigotry against Jews and their desire to exclude Jews from the Democratic Party. They are mimicking the antisemitic wing of the Democratic Socialists and the antisemitic wing of the England’s Labor Party. The Jewish power themes stem from a post-World War I antisemitic tract, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which may have also motivated the recent attempted coup in Germany. Apparently, Hitler’s My Struggle, can find a welcome home in the new Brown Shirts, Proud Boys, and rightwing Republican militias. It is good to know that the remnants of Israel, the fifteen million or so remaining Jews in the world, are of such deep interest.

Even on college campuses Jews cannot avoid the upsurge in antisemitism. Stanford University just apologized for its history of antisemitism and use of quotas to keep Jews out. Harvard is just as hostile to Jews today as it was in the 1920s when it advocated quotas. A number of other so called institutions of higher education, including Columbia, New York University, Michigan State, George Washington, and Rutgers, to name a few, are hostile environments for anyone visibly Jewish. The Jewish civil rights group, ADL reported that 75-80% of Jewish college students hide their identity to avoid harassment by their enlightened colleagues and faculty. The ADL rated 135 colleges for antisemitism, and no surprise Columbia, Yale, and Princeton got Ds along with a dozen other colleges. Some like Haverford got Fs.[11]

Students and faculty remain just as hostile to Jews as they were in the 1920s. When Republican Congresswoman Elaine Stefanik on December 5, 2023, asked the presidents of Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, and MIT if calling for the genocide of Jews is hate speech, none agreed, suggesting the moral bankruptcy of many college presidents[12] . The widespread acceptance of antisemitism in higher education became evident when four Columbia administrators were caught in August 2024 texting antisemitic messages in a college discussion of Jewish life on campus. The fact they could not refrain from making antisemitic remarks during a discussion of Jewish life on campus reflects how ingrained antisemitism has become among college administrators.[13]  Some colleges, like Syracuse University, refuse to acknowledge their history of antisemitism, their use of quotas, and their naming of buildings after antisemitic and racist administrators. [14]

The Wall Street Journal documented in April 2025 an incident at Princeton. When Naftali Bennet, former prime minister of Israel, spoke 250 enlightened and tolerant students shouted him down, flashed the Hamas triangle, and told Jewish students attending to go back to Europe. At other colleges, Jews have been told to go back to Poland. In Princeton and many other colleges DEI has been a lesson in antisemitic tropes and disrespect for Jewish students[15] . Unfortunately, antisemitism has not vanished, and is alive and growing on college campuses and in both major American political parties.

Footnotes:

[1]https://www.nps.gov/people/madison-grant.htm - .gov reference acknowledging this statement as accurate.

"He argued that both white Americans and “pure” nature needed to be protected from “invasive,” non-native species." The specific quote used in this passage is cited in this .org

https://voices.sefaria.org/sheets/178573?lang=bi as being from the book. Passing of the Great Race could also be used a citation.

 [2]Previous links support this, it just didn't highlight.

 [3]https://immigrationhistory.org/item/%E2%80%8B1921-emergency-quota-law/ - .org noting the "drawing on eugenics research" which relates back to the lines on Grant.

 [4]https://history.state.gov/milestones/1921-1936/immigration-act - .gov noting the exact wording of the Act

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/1924-us-immigration-act-history#:~:text=The%20Immigration%20Act%20of%201924,born%20population%20for%20four%20decades. - .org which says specifically "It closed the door on almost all new Asian immigration and shut out most European Jews and other refugees..." 

Either would work fine, but I think having the option to choose could be helpful.

 [5]https://www.jta.org/archive/jewish-population-in-greater-new-york-numbers-1728000-jewish-communal-survey-shows#:~:text=According%20to%20a%201925%20Jewish%20Communal%20Survey,increase%20in%20Jews%20from%201915%20to%201925 - .org citing ~30% of NY were Jewish in 1925

 [6]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/16/charlottesville-neo-nazis-vice-news-hbo - The Guardian discussing this point. 

The Guardian when searched up is among the top most trusted by its readers for accuracy according to this link: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/aug/13/the-guardian-is-most-trusted-by-its-readers-among-uk-newspapers-finds-ofcom

As such I think it is a fair news source to cite despite it not being a .org or .gov

 [7]https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/tucker-carlson/#white-power-hour-and-great-replacement-rhetoric - .org discussing Carlson and directly citing replacement theory. 

"Carlson minimized the “great replacement” theory and claimed not to understand it. In the same segment, he appeared to endorse it once again"

https://forward.com/fast-forward/463280/marjorie-taylor-greene-jewish-groups-condemn-antisemitism/ - An article from forward.com which discusses Greene and her statement of "jewish space lasers" which became a large controversy for her. 

Having looked it up the forward is considered highly reliable and forward left-center biased. As such I feel it would be a fair citation.

 [8]https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/25/us/politics/trump-nick-fuentes-dinner.html#:~:text=The%20former%20president%27s%20table%20for,In%20recent%20years%2C%20Mr. - A link to the New York Times discussing the dinner with Nick Fuentes / Kanye West. The statement of antisemitic speakers is well known in relation to the dinner guests. 

https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116973/documents/HHRG-118-ED00-20240417-SD005.pdf

- This second link is a .gov which also discusses this dinner and confirms the posting by Fuentes of racist content and Holocaust revisionism

 [9]The claim about great replacement is previously cited in relation to Carlson. 

https://www.ajc.org/translatehate/Soros - This link by the AJC discusses Soros being used as a target for widespread antisemitism.

 [10]Assuming this candidate is Doug Mastriano this link by the NYT discusses the incident and would work as a citation: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/10/us/politics/mastriano-shapiro-antisemitism.html

 [11]file:///C:/Users/Enlig/Downloads/AntisemitismCampuses102016.pdf

I don't know how to properly cite this pdf in a comment, however it covers every claim until the ADL reported section of this paragraph. 

https://www.adl.org/resources/report/audit-antisemitic-incidents-2024

https://www.adl.org/campus-antisemitism-report-card - This link also reports the statistics within the paragraph.

https://www.adl.org/campus-antisemitism-report-card - This link is the report card to the college ratings which confirm the letter grades within the paragraph.

 [12]Transcript of this incident: https://stefanik.house.gov/2023/12/icymi-during-questions-from-stefanik-presidents-of-harvard-upenn-mit-refuse-to-condemn-calls-for-genocide-of-jews

There is also a video attached, but I cannot access it currently. When first looking over this piece I did watch it though and it is fully accurate.

 [13]https://www.npr.org/2024/08/08/g-s1-16077/3-columbia-deans-resign-over-texts-that-touched-on-antisemitic-tropes

This .org link supports the claims about Columbia administrators.

 [14]https://medium.com/@nellschwartz2018/antisemitism-on-syracuse-universitys-campus-throughout-the-years-2fff7fbd518f - This link discusses SYU experiencing antisemitism on their campus and in their archive. However, I have not been able to find anything regarding quotas. If you have a link or a source to fill in it would be helpful. 

https://nyunews.com/2016/02/29/the-names-behind-nyus-buildings/ - This link is from the Washington Square News and discusses the naming of buildings after antisemitic individuals.

 [15]Claims about Princeton can be cited from here: https://paw.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2025-05/Statement%20About%20Bennett%20Investigation%20May%2021.pdf Note this PDF is by Princeton.