Campus Antisemitism
From triumph to tragedy, 2018 was a busy year for U.S. Jewry. Take a look at what JNS is naming the top five stories of the year.
The Center for Combating Hate in America (C4CHA) will serve as an active watchdog group, as well as a resource to fight hatred and violence nationwide.
“Resolutions like this one send an important message to the campus community and beyond,” said Max Samarov, executive director of research and campus strategy at StandWithUs.
“I find it frustrating that all Jewish issues have become so politicized on our campus,” Pomona junior and Alpha Epsilon Pi member Sam Lushtak told JNS.
The University of California became the first institution of higher education to issue a condemnation against faculty support for BDS in the aftermath of cases at the University of Michigan and Pitzer College.
The group has visited almost 70 campuses in the United States over the past year, making inroads against false information spread about the Jewish state.
The final tally, which was conducted by a secret ballot, was 35 votes in favor, 14 against and 14 abstentions. The BDS measure was backed by 51 campus groups and 34 faculty members.
“It is disturbing that the International Socialist Organization, an off-campus group, was heavily involved in this campaign,” said Ron Krudo, executive director of campus affairs for StandWithUs.
The move came in response to recent actions by faculty at the University of Michigan and Pitzer College against the Jewish state.
“This is our response to darkness,” says Chabad Rabbi Yonah Blum. “We [were] expecting a lot of people, Jewish and not Jewish, to come out and show solidarity against anti-Semitism and hate.”
In total, 77 swastika incidents have occurred in 2018, according to the AMCHA Initiative.
A Jewish professor at Columbia University in New York was the target of anti-Semitic vandalism, walking into her office to discover two red swastikas and the slur “Yid” on the walls.
