No one is arguing with you that the world wouldn’t be a much better place “if we could all just get along” as the old cliche goes. But statements like yours show such a complete ignorance of history and come across as so hopelessly naive that everything you are saying is useless, on any practical level. What do you hope to accomplish with it? You might as well add in that if we could just stop committing crimes, end world hunger (there really is plenty of food after all), and share everything the world would just be paradise again. All true, but how does that help move anything forward in the real world? Have you ever seen the movie Miss Congeniality? You sound like all the contestants that answer every question with “world peace”.
You also seem to struggle with the definition of anti-Semitic.
That would mean you want to change the definition of who is a Semite, a word that has been fully defined for thousands of years.
Clearly, at least to me, you are trying to desperately justify your choice to attend Oberlin in light of these disturbing facts. I wouldn’t worry. First, I do indeed imagine on a day-to-day basis one can, should they so choose, have a very excellent 4 years there, get a great education and be nearly unaware and unconcerned about these issues should they so choose. Second, and on the opposite end if one wanted, one could look on it as an opportunity to set the record straight, whatever that might mean to you. But to be in willful denial that Prof. Karega is a hater of Jews and Israel (see, I won’t use the term anti-Semitic because it is so misused in these arguments) is to just be childishly ignorant of the reality that could not be laid before you any more plainly. One doesn’t have to be a mind reader in her case, it is out there for all to see. There are no other motivations that explain her very plain statements.
You can continue to argue that you are right and everyone else is wrong, of course. But the “everyone else” in this case has quite a few highly educated, far older and more experienced people in it. Is your ego so large that you cannot concede that you might have taken a wrong turn on this? Again, I don’t mean choosing Oberlin. Forget about that, it is most likely a very fine choice for you. I mean to want to win this point so badly that you are using lines of arguments that most people abandon by fourth grade. If you cannot see that, well so be it. It then really is like arguing with a stubborn eight year old, with all the adults standing there chuckling at the amusingly naive arguments.