Campus Antisemitism
“SJP members have posted violent anti-Semitic rhetoric on social media, ranging from calling for the annihilation of the Jewish people, to the admiration of Adolf Hitler and hateful calls to ‘kill Jews,’ ‘kill all Zionists,’ and ‘let’s stuff some Jews in the oven,’ ” according to a resolution issued by the Los Angeles City Council.
“You are supporting Nazis,” student Shelby Shoup said in the video posted online. “Do you understand that?”
“It seems the problem is only getting worse as a result of this campaign of hate that has been launched by JVP and SJP on campus,” said Rena Nasar, tri-state campus director of the organization StandWithUs.
The national chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine has apparently refused to follow a cease-and-desist letter from the University of California, Los Angeles—the site of its annual conference this month—a day past the deadline.
Hundreds of Jewish students attending Pittsburgh-area colleges face the aftermath of a violent attack that has put their city on the 24-hour news cycle.
“A Jewish student at Rutgers was physically bullied and physically threatened on campus, and Jewish students were singled out and excluded from a campus event that was advertised as open to everyone,” said representatives of the Zionist Organization of America.
Some 48 hours after the deadliest attack on Jews in American history, the school’s Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies held a town-hall program featuring anti-Israel advocates.
The language could be considered anti‐Semitic under the internationally accepted International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism.
The Zionist Organization of America has called for Marc Lamont Hill to be fired from Temple University in Philadelphia, where he teaches, and CNN, where he is a contributor, for his support of Louis Farrakhan.
France’s Higher Education Minister Frédérique Vidal brought together key players in the fight against racism and anti-Semitism following the proliferation of tags, graffiti and anti-Semitic expressions in recent weeks in several institutions of higher education.
Her father, Rafiq Alqasem, staunchly supports BDS and has posted anti-Semitic content on social media, such as conspiracy theories related to Jewish influence and comparing Israel to Nazi Germany.
“Why do we have to be afraid to publicly expose those who are rabidly anti-Semitic? Have we learned nothing from our tragic past? When we remain silent, we are trampled on,” says Brooke Goldstein, executive director of the Lawfare Project.
