But perhaps the  weightiest statement Williams made came in a charge of cultural thievery, of “ghettoizing and demeaning our creations, then stealing them.”

Contrary to contemporary understanding, Jews — not African-Americans — are the original “ghettoized people,” he writes, noting that most of his students these days have no clue.

Their enemies are not only in a distant country, but also within — largely third-generation Muslim immigrants clustered in ghettoized parts of European cities.