Ethics and academia

Sorry to interrupt.
Anyway, what does this perhaps indicate?
It's almost possible to say that the ”academia” world is unusually anti-Semitic. I would actually expect the underdog bias to have less of an effect on thinking people (well… not everyone in academia thinks, but less than taco vendors?)

First, I don't think it's a function of more or less thinking. On the contrary, sometimes overthinking leads to error. It's the well-known maxim that there are such big nonsenses that only intellectuals can believe them. This is no joke. From people on the street you hear nonsense and mistakes on the left and right, but colossal mistakes are mainly made by intellectuals.
Secondly, there are departments in academia that are not concerned with thinking but with promoting an agenda. These are mainly areas where thinking is not required, such as gender, international relations and other fields of various kinds (many from the humanities and social sciences). I think the nonsense you hear comes mainly from there (although of course not only from there).
And third, we need to remember that academia is a cosmopolitan world that comes into contact with the rest of the world in a stronger way than other people and groups. Something about cosmopolitanism negates nationalism and chauvinism. And more broadly, the postmodern idea of the oppressed goes out against anyone who has a claim to some right at the expense of someone else. Anyone who suffers is right. There are no weak people, there are weak people. For some reason, this stupid idea has gained a strong following in academia.
And fourth, there is a lot of fake news, and when you are exposed to information that presents Israel as a great, strong, and cruel occupier, and it is quite easy to present it that way, you immediately side with the weak. Especially against the backdrop of post-colonial pangs of conscience.
And in the background of it all there is blatant anti-Semitism, of course, but it is true that it was not supposed to appear in academia.
But it seems to me that the one-sided picture that is sometimes presented to us is also fake. Academia is not all against us either. It is true that there are vicious demonstrations there and blatant biases against Israel, but we focus on them when there are also many other phenomena. It's annoying and infuriating, so they focus on it, but it's really not the whole picture, and certainly not these days after Hamas' mega-attack.
We need to remember that not every expression in favor of the Palestinians is support for terrorism. Today, anyone who says "free Palestine" is seen as supporting terrorism, and a witch hunt is underway against "traitors" and "anti-Semites", both in Israel and around the world. We shouldn't exaggerate for the other side either.