ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the growth of DEI and concomitantly DEI as a movement in higher education. This is critiqued from the perspective of the growth in antisemitism on campus in the wake of October 7th 2023, noting the incoherence this implies for notions of education and inclusion more widely. Through a discussion of perspectives on particularism and universalism in postcolonial theory, linked to Berlin’s critique of idealism, an argument for universities as neutral venues for the debating of ideas within a “common human horizon”, not as actors for social change, is developed.
