Alums for Campus Fairness
“Cornell refuses to enforce the student code of conduct, fostering a hostile climate that endangers Jewish students,” per a brochure that Alums for Campus Fairness distributed.
Mobile billboards protest the appearances of Stephen and Lara Sheehi, who support boycotting the State of Israel.
ACF surveyed 75 leading college newspapers:181 articles cast the Jewish state in a bad light.
Among the 312 enrolled students and 194 alumni from different Jewish affiliations who took part in the survey, 95 percent said anti-Semitism was an issue on their current or former college campus.
Alums for Campus Fairness said that Students for Justice in Palestine’s “history of activism often goes far beyond legitimate criticism of Israel, descending into outright anti-Semitism.”
Some of the most alarming examples recorded include swastikas spray-painted in the office of a Jewish professor and a performer at a school-sponsored conference inviting all to join in his “anti-Semitism song.”
Alums for Campus Fairness “aims to combat bigotry, and promote honest and respectful debate at universities. Universities should be pillars of truth, academic freedom and open discourse.”
The 33-page dossier “reveals the disturbing truth about anti-Semitism at one of the highest-regarded universities in the United States,” said Avi Gordon, executive director of the NGO Alums for Campus Fairness.
“If Catholic students were told they had to disavow the Vatican before they could engage with other members of the student body, everyone would agree that it would be blatant discrimination. This is no different,” said Alyza Lewin, president and general counsel of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.
