Campus Antisemitism
Students from Baruch College in New York City won the grand prize for their project, “Brave,” in the second annual, pro-Israeli advocacy contest sponsored by the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation.
Brown student leader and SWU Emerson fellow Jesse Raviv said “as predicted, the Brown Divest vote polarized the student body, induced incidents of hate through online forums and created a hostile environment for pro-Israel students.”
“California State University’s public recognition that Zionism is an integral part of Jewish identity represents a major victory for Jewish students at SFSU and across the country,” said Lawfare Project executive director Brooke Goldstein.
“The Western media has become so good at lying about this country,” says Charlie Kirk, founder of “Turning Point USA” organization, whose fact-finding mission showed him realities on the ground that will assist him in his pro-Israel advocacy on college campuses.
Some 89 percent of 405 French Jewish students surveyed said that they had experienced some form of anti-Semitism on campus, which included tropes, jokes about the Holocaust and Jewish stereotypes.
“BDS is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It masquerades as a noble display of support for oppressed people while concealing its intentions to demonize the Jewish state,” junior Kyle Price wrote in “The Brown Daily Herald.”
“Academic boycotts violate the rights of students and faculty on U.S. campuses, and this precedent-setting vote is frightening,” AMCHA Initiative co-founder and director, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, said in a statement.
The focus of the three-day event was on educating and inspiring the next generation of advocates for the Jewish state.
“Cornell is not primarily an agent to direct social or political action, but rather a neutral forum for analysis, debate and the search for truth,” said Martha Pollack.
“This unabashed support for such a despicable organization is deeply disturbing and is a direct attack on the campus’s Jewish communities. It should be condemned by all who seek peace in the Middle East,” said CAMERA campus coordinator Zac Schildcrout.
“The pro-Israel students at Columbia deserve enormous credit. They prove that the truth about Israel is still compelling, and that unity is still powerful,” said Maccabee Task Force executive director David Brog.
“It’s shameful that Canadian university students are using Western platforms to discriminate against the Jewish people and the only democratic state in the Middle East: Israel,” said Avi Benlolo, president and CEO of the Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
