Posts Tagged: Israel college campuses
Why Do We Let Antisemites Define Antisemitism?
In the US, we don't hear much positive news about how Jews and Israel are treated on college campuses in the United Kingdom. In fact, we mostly...
Indian Israelis Bridge the Divide at Home and in America
When you think of an Israeli, what image pops into your mind? Is it a tanned person with dark hair with a bowl of hummus in his hands?...
For Jewish Students, Life at College is Better Than You Think
I have lost track of the number of times that I have been asked to address the “Israel issue” at my campus, the University of Illinois at...
The Good News You Don’t Hear From Campus
The first semester of 2016-17 has been another phenomenal one for Jewish students across the country. While fear-mongers have been scaring parents with exaggerated claims about how...
Denying Campus Antisemitism Puts Jewish Students at Risk
Mitchell Bard, who frequently writes articles challenging the veracity of claims that campus antisemitism is on the rise, often cites his own favorite statistic to...
SJP Hijacks an Anti-Trump Rally to Fuel Antisemitism at George Washington University
During the anti-Trump rally held on November 15 at George Washington University (GWU), I was struck for the first time with the feeling that I...
Tracking the Jewish Reaction to Antisemitism on Campus
Over the years -- and more particularly since 2006 -- various surveys and reports have told us that Jewish university students confronted with antisemitism on campus feel...
A Troubling Silence About Antisemitism at the University of Michigan
For many Jewish students at the University of Michigan, celebration of the Jewish New Year was unjustly marred by feelings of pain and ostracism. On...
SPME BDS Monitor: Violence Occurs on College Campuses
The first violent BDS protest of the fall semester has now occurred. At the same time, Midwestern colleges and universities are now offering direct support to...
Amid BDS Activism, Divestment Falters on College Campuses
It has become a summer ritual to predict that college campuses will erupt in anti-Israel activity, and, after 2014-15’s record number of antisemitic divestment resolutions,...
The Jewish Exception to Free Speech on Campus
JNS.org - In 2012, the Electronic Intifada, an online anti-Zionist media outlet that aggressively promotes the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, ran a lengthy article suggesting...
Fighting Back Is the Best Way to Combat Antisemitism on College Campuses
According to the Anti-Defamation League, antisemitic incidents on American college campuses nearly doubled from 2014 to 2015. Antisemitic assaults (on- and off-campus) also spiked dramatically, from 36 to...
Who’s Really Driving ‘Grassroots’ Anti-Israel Activism in America?
“Israelis have to be bombed… it is wrong to maintain the State of Israel. It is an illegitimate creation” -- Taher Herzallah, National Campus Coordinator of...
‘Israel Fellows’ Work to Counter Threats By Demystifying the Jewish State on Campus
JNS.org - In today’s climate on college campuses, Jewish students often face a fight-or-flight choice in the face of increasing anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric, discrimination, and...
