These are progressives, not liberals. They don't want a meritocracy; they want equal outcomes for everyone. And realistically the only way you get that is by lowering outcomes for gifted achievers.
While I might take issue with shutting down a program to make a point, I grew up as a Jewish guy in the 1980s and faced racism and bullying on the regular. It truly made my life a living hell sometimes. As an adult, I've had to deal with things like openly racist co-workers. Now of course there's all the recent suggestions that I'm enabling genocide somewhere just by _being_ Jewish and/or for supporting Israel. Whenever someone says something like "The Jews...", it's probably racism. It feels like it.
In my opinion, the root of all these problems is a small bunch of bad actors who think it's okay to engage in antisocial behavior. They then convince others that it's okay to do the same thing, whether actively or by example. Society would be so much better off if people with antisocial tendencies could somehow be convinced to be pro-social.
Hoping to not get over political, but the western media is failing to separate the Israeli government from the Israeli people, the latter of whom have a sizeable portion that don't agree with the governments actions in Gaza.
It's sad and as you suggested, just fuels racism in the form of anti semitism. All it takes is one extreme to destroy an entire point of view.