[url=<a href=“http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-staggering-70-of-jewish-students-experienced-anti-semitism-at-uc/%5DThis%5B/url”>http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-staggering-70-of-jewish-students-experienced-anti-semitism-at-uc/]This[/url] is just the latest in a series of pieces/studies/reports about the extent to which anti-semitism is growing on campus.
My comment is this: I would bet money that many of the students protesting racism also engage in activity that makes other students feel unsafe, as in “safe spaces”. I would bet money that many of these students have no problem making others uncomfortable and that they justify this because that is “justice” or that the “privileged” should be made to feel uncomfortable, even physically unsafe.
The can’t and won’t. I forgot to include some of the examples, which in this article are all from the UC system.
-A student at UCSC wrote: “One of my friends wearing a yarmulke was walking into the library and had a member of Students for Justice in Palestine wearing a border patrol uniform say Hitler was right.”
-A student at UCI wrote: “I was called a “kike” on campus by Students for Justice in Palestine and my two female friends and I were shoved to the ground and physically assaulted…I am afraid to be on this campus.”
-A student at UCSB wrote: “My friend was out at night and a student from Students for Justice in Palestine called her demeaning names and spat at her.”
There are many other sources which repeat similar things, including sites with videos of Jewish students talking about the abuse they receive for wearing a yarmulke or a Star of David.
@Lergnom You are exactly correct. Many of the students are the biggest hipocrits on planet earth.
Some of these students should be expelled on site, particularly the one student at Yale and several of the students rampaging the Dartmouth library. The schools just create one moral hazard after another by not drawing the line.
That is absolutely terrible and I remember when we visited UCB it was during one of the pro-Palestinian movements on campus. It was a big turnoff for DD.
I am very familiar with the 15 Minute Rule at Notre Dame. Students that are disruptive, block entrances, or harass students have 15 minutes to stop or they are expelled. Any physical aggression toward faculty or students is immediate expulsion. There are no exceptions.
What I do not understand is the minority attitude toward Jews and Catholics, both of which were KKK targets. Perhaps these students need a history lesson on the biggest proponents of the civil rights movement.
Looks like all of the incidents are about Israeli-Palestinian politics. These usually devolve into racism, since the noisiest people (on both sides) tend to be the most racist ones. Same old, same old…
And at UC Santa Cruz this week, a member of the student government was told to abstain from voting on a BDS resolution because he is President of the Jewish Students Union: “You will be abstaining, as the president of JSU that is the right thing. There was also a comment tonight that you were elected by a…hmm Idk if these are the right words but let’s say…a Jewish agenda."
Imagine a black student told he/she can’t vote on an issue of concern to black students. Or a Latino. Or frankly anyone but a Jew.
Story is [url=<a href=“http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2015/11/18/uc-santa-cruz-student-warned-to-abstain-from-bds-vote-over-jewish-agenda#.Vk4AjDZg7jJ=%5Dhere%5B/url”>http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2015/11/18/uc-santa-cruz-student-warned-to-abstain-from-bds-vote-over-jewish-agenda#.Vk4AjDZg7jJ=]here[/url].
It is new to me. As a mother of California senior I am deeply concern with anti-Semitism at UCs that I learned about in the last few months. I did not think I would have to add one more component trying to determine if university is a good fit: level of anti-Semitism on campus.
The hypocrisy of harassing Jews and supporters of Israel (which clearly happened in the UCLA student government) while demanding safe spaces is worth bringing out over time.
As a Jew, I have to say that in many cases (obviously not those described above), the perceived anti-semitism is really overblown. A few years back at NYU, SJP put fake “eviction notices” under dorm room doors (they were very clearly fake and talked about how Palestinians are often served with eviction notices with only days to leave), and then people freaked out saying that Jewish students were targeted/SJP specifically targeted dorms with large Jewish populations (which is utterly nonsensical as all NYU dorms have pretty big Jewish populations). I got one under my door and thought nothing of it, and was astounded when people got really upset about it all over campus. Anti-Israel sentiment is NOT the same as anti-semitism, and a lot of people really conflate the two.
kepakemapa, "fit’ is the reason I clicked on this thread. DS is now applying to colleges and I wanted to see if the article was about one of the colleges on his list. We are not Jewish, but I wouldn’t be more horrified than I am now if we were. He is not applying to any of the colleges mentioned here, and I haven’t heard of anti-Semitic activity at any of the colleges he’s applying to. The incidents reported are over the top and the violent students should be expelled.
Jewish people are white, they tend to be upper middle class, and most irritatingly of all, 50% are male. So, you have a group of white, upper middle class males - the demographic that we’ve been told is the root of most past evil and the continued source of the present oppression of ‘others’.
Pointing out the hypocrisy (especially to the victimology based groups on campuses) results in further howling about 'your oppressing me!!!".
“Anti-semitism on campus” is heavily promoted and encouraged from the very top, and I bet there is a money trail that we do not know about yet, just like in riots in Ferguson and Baltimore, if it was not the case, then we would definitely see lots of expulsion cases for disgusting stuff that some student groups are involved and all the lies that they are spreading. Nothing is punished, must be bought out then.
