Campus Antisemitism
A speech given by Canada’s special envoy for Holocaust remembrance and anti-Semitism Irwin Cotler brought controversy to campus.
Hundreds have been put on doorposts all over school’s Bloomington campus • Sticker on them says, “I stand with my Jewish friends.”
It is the first time that a Canadian university has retained money from groups supporting anti-Semitism.
“Campuses today are as politically charged and polarized as I’ve ever seen them, with zero tolerance for individuals whose identities, beliefs or opinions run afoul of dominant campus ideologies,” said Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, director of the AMCHA Initiative.
With a presence at nearly 200 schools, 1,000 members and close to 400 alumni, Students Supporting Israel is now the largest registered pro-Israel movement on college campuses.
“While much can be said about the events of the past four months, in this message we want to highlight one of the most important things that this process showed us; the strength of the pro-Israel community when it stands united,” Students Supporting Israel said in a statement.
School officials found 20 swastikas on campus, in addition to a note that targeted the school’s African-American community.
Chancellor Robert Jones: “Sneaking around and delivering hateful, hurtful and racist messages in plastic sandwich bags filled with gravel is a cowardly and craven way to spew hate and division in our community.”
“While the list of protected groups in USC’s policy is long, Jewish students experiencing anti-Zionist harassment do not naturally fit into a group that guarantees them protection,” says a letter to the university president Carol Folt.
Activities include campus demonstrations, rallies and lectures with pro-Palestinian activists erecting mock checkpoints and walls.
“The clear inference is that some shadowy Zionist/Jewish cabal is operating in the Dutch university system. This reeks of anti-Semitism,” said Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs.
Jacob Baime, Israel on Campus CEO, told JNS that the Jewish community “is tired of trying to explain and justify what does and does not constitute hate and discrimination towards Jews.”
