Campus Antisemitism
Rep. Virginia Foxx stated that she “won’t be deterred from my fight to protect Jewish students from discrimination on campuses across the nation.”
Antisemitism “subtly” hits students repeatedly until they become “numb to it,” a senior at San Diego State University told JNS.
“I was a rabbi before I became a lawyer, which informs a lot of my worldview,” the National Jewish Advocacy Center CEO told JNS.
The North American Values Institute told JNS that Islamist actors and China and Qatar are trying to take control of schools.
“Foreign governments with appalling human-rights records are funding the very offices meant to protect students’ civil rights,” stated Ziporah Reich, of the Lawfare Project.
“The latest antisemitic blood libel going around? The IDF trains with ICE,” StopAntisemitism stated.
“When someone shows up, and they’re brave enough to be vulnerable, we want to make sure there’s some safety in that,” a school official stated.
“They’re not so big and powerful that they can’t ignore what the federal government can and might do to them,” Jay Greene, of Defense of Freedom Institute, told JNS.
Education officials have their “hearts and minds are in the right place,” Tal Fortgang, of the Manhattan Institute, told JNS. “It’s a matter of execution.”
“In most countries, the only space where teachers receive any training, support or guidance on teaching about antisemitism is in history education, and in particular through Holocaust education,” UNESCO told JNS.
The “mission of a university is the pursuit of truth, but we are seeing that mission give ground to a culture of anti-Israel indoctrination,” Kurt Schwartz, of CAMERA, stated.
The Anti-Defamation League said it was “appalled to hear that a student was subjected to antisemitic slurs.”
