Shadi Hamid: ‘We on the left bear some responsibility for creating the conditions for these political attacks’
Well before the Israel-Gaza war broke out, a new McCarthyism was already widespread on American college campuses. During the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 50s, about 100 professors were fired for supposed communist sympathies; according to Greg Lukianoff, co-author of The Canceling of the American Mind, the number fired for their political beliefs – primarily for conservative or “anti-woke” positions on race and gender – over the past 10 years is almost double that.
