Campus Antisemitism
Rhetoric at the school against Israel and Jews has grown increasingly intense, “violent, and more confrontational, and has crossed many lines.”
Our sukkah may be broken, but not our spirit, the Hillel director says.
Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace protested a talk by Doron Tenne, assistant director of the Israel Security Agency and its attaché to the Embassy of Israel in Washington.
The ADL’s Campus Report documented and categorized incidents such as protests and events, BDS resolutions, vandalism, harassment and physical assault.
The demand came after numerous student organizations at University of California, Berkeley, School of Law passed bylaws prohibiting Zionist speakers at their events.
New York City’s public university system is set to include the broadly accepted definition as an “educational tool” only.
The university long denied the existence of anti-Semitic bias.
“The Wellesley News editorial board seeks to position themselves as the victim,” Jeremy Burton, CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston, told JNS.
“While it is not my practice to comment on the newspaper’s editorials, I do feel the need to make it clear that Wellesley College rejects the Mapping Project for promoting anti-Semitism,” Wellesley College President Paula A. Johnson wrote.
The Wellesley News “truly disgraced itself” by “supporting this vile anti-Semitic project,” said Aviva Rosenschein, international campus director for the CAMERA media watchdog.
“The bylaw is a vicious attempt to marginalize and stigmatize the Jewish, Israeli, and pro-Israel community and to normalize the requirement that Zionist Jews hide or alter a fundamental aspect of their identity in order to be fully accepted in certain arenas,” the pro-Israel organizations wrote in a letter published Oct. 3.
ACF surveyed 75 leading college newspapers:181 articles cast the Jewish state in a bad light.
