Campus Antisemitism
“We expect the University of Oregon to hold students, faculty and staff responsible for intimidation and hate speech,” said Lenny Steinberg, executive director of the Oregon Hillel Foundation.
“We tried to make it clear to them that this is a memorial that was built for those who died in a horrible terrorist attack,” Lawrence Puccini told JNS.
“Due to the ongoing property destruction and other reported crimes, officers have activated their body-worn video,” the police department stated.
“We are not asking universities to suppress speech,” Sagit Sade Attia, of the council, told JNS. “We are asking them to govern their campuses.”
“If Swarthmore has in fact turned a blind eye to such provocation, using the most horrific acts of violence against Jews since the Holocaust as a propaganda tool, someone is asleep at the wheel,” the U.S. Education Department said.
“The most disturbing lesson Jewish students are learning in school today may be how quickly the adults look away,” Steve Rosenberg of the North American Values Institute told JNS.
Sophie Shabot experienced “verbal harassment, being chased, being pushed and shoved, being spat on, yelled at, blocked from entering a building,” according to her lawyer.
“The charging by the FBI of Haverford College associate professor Guangtian Ha for harassment and intimidation of a Jewish Israeli professor closes the dotted line between verbal acts of harassment and actionable violence which, when Jews are the recipients, is far too often ignored,” Lori Lowenthal Marcus of the Deborah Project told JNS.
“Jewish teachers in Ontario have gone to work facing antisemitism, and when they asked their school boards and unions for help, they were ignored and in some cases faced reprisal,” an attorney for the educators said.
A Swarthmore spokesperson told JNS that SJP, whose official college affiliation was revoked in 2025, has since deleted its repost of a video promoting an anti-Israel rally in Philadelphia on Oct. 7.
“This is my face being plastered in places and falsely accusing me of things I don’t actually support,” Lenny Steinberg told JNS.
“Jewish students should never feel they have to hide who they are to get through Oct. 7,” Sharon Sorkin of the North American Values Institute told JNS.
