Campus Antisemitism
“We have an antisemitism talk task force, because everybody on the other side has howled their head off if somebody so much has looked sideways at them,” the professor seems to say as recorded on a hidden camera.
“When antisemitism is allowed to continue unchecked, it is not merely the Jewish people but society as a whole that suffers,” Roz Rothstein, the activist group’s co-founder and CEO, told JNS.
A week beforehand, the gathering received calls for a boycott while a political cartoon invoking an ancient blood libel.
“School leadership must make serious changes to support Jewish communities,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.
“In the elevated threat environment that we have seen since Oct. 7, we stand ready to hold perpetrators of hate crimes accountable” said Kristen Clarke, a U.S. assistant attorney general.
The Lawfare Project has led the effort to hold the college accountable for its alleged failure to take action.
The initiative provides “a simple message: You are not alone, and the facts are on your side,” said Douglas Sandoval of CAMERA on Campus.
A University of Michigan student wrote on Instagram, “Until my last breath, I will utter death to every single individual who supports the Zionist state. Death and more. Death and worse.”
The university attracted the attention of three Jewish nonprofits “because of the egregious nature of the physical assaults on Jewish students.”
“The gravity of this situation and these outcomes weighs heavily” on the school’s leadership, said C. Cybele Raver, Vanderbilt’s provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs.
The school’s president, Minouche Shafik, called the unauthorized event “an abhorrent breach of our values.”
Universities look to preserve their tax-exempt status and avoid political embarrassment, as two House committees continue to investigate antisemitism on campuses.
