If UCSD’s administration had been serious about honoring American Jews’ contributions to the U.S., there is no shortage of American material they could have drawn from. Jews came to the U.S. fleeing persecution and seeking the promise of freedom, embodied by the immortal words of Jewish American Emma Lazarus on the Statue of Liberty. They could have celebrated Jewish American comedy from the Marx Brothers to Rivers to Seinfeld to Schumer. UCSD buried our long, varied, and complicated history as Americans and subordinated it to the much shorter history of a country thousands of miles away. Whatever their opinions on Israel may be, most American Jews are not Israelis, have never been Israelis, and will never be Israelis.