Campus DEI framing treats Jews and Muslims as equally marginalized, erasing power asymmetries.

Evidence

US university DEI initiatives that purport to counter Islamophobia and antisemitism aim to convey that all impacted students belong, regardless of their religious identities or political views. This deliberately unnuanced, liberal approach to diversity seeks to appear unbiased and all-inclusive by embracing a denial of history, power dynamics, and even genocide. Such denial casts Jews and Muslims as equally marginalized on US campuses and thus, in equal need of inclusion, reinforcing the notion of parity between Israelis and Palestinians, and that all Palestinians are Muslim. — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 15

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: how the equality-of-victimhood frame in DEI discourse neutralizes critique of Israel/Palestine power dynamics.
• XREF: connects to: Campus DEI responses to October 7 systematically obscure Israel’s role in anti-Palestinian violence — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 11; University DEI responses frame antisemitism and Islamophobia symmetrically while omitting the Israeli-Palestinian context. — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 12