Most anti-Israel college campuses?

College Search & Selection
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<p>So I was wondering what campuses are the most anti-zionist or anti-israel? I won't say how I feel about the issue but I want to know what are the campuses that have a high number of students who wear Palestinian scarves on campus and protest Israel-related events like pro-Israel speakers and stuff. Or the ones that have lots of professors who have similar views.</p>

<p>These are the schools I've been told so far:</p>

<p>Hampshire College (divested from Israel earlier this year)
Swarthmore College (very close to divesting from Israel)
Evergreen State College (Rachel Corrie's alma mater, surprise surprise)
University of Michigan (large Palestinian/Lebanese pop.)
Earlham College (ditto)
University of Rochester (protested the Gaza War with occupation)
University of California Irvine (Muslim Student groups very active)
MIT (Noam Chomsky teaches there)</p>

<p>Any others?</p>

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20% of the undergrads at Michigan and Rochester are Jewish.</p>

<p>Swarthmore and Earlham also have large Jewish populations.</p>

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<p>A large number of MIT students are Jewish. A larger number are more or less politically apathetic.</p>

<p>One well-known professor does not an anti-anything school make.</p>

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<p>Is there something wrong about expressing outrage toward atrocities and inhumanity? About wearing a Palestinian scarf?</p>

<p>lol.</p>

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<p>Cal State Long Beach has a professor who is a Holocaust denier. That’s pretty awful.</p>

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<p>Jewish doesnt mean pro-israel. Some of the most anti-israel people i know are jews.</p>

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<p>I would recommend looking abroad-maybe in Iran or Egypt. Most people in the US are anti-terrorist and thus inclined to support Israel.</p>

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<p>Columbia and Brown are probably the worst of the Ivies</p>

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<p>^^^^Or the best ilovebagels. Depending on how you look at it.</p>

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<p>Generally speaking, a college does not have a foreign policy :slight_smile:
Nor does the presence of Noam Chomsky on the MIT faculty say much about majority opinion there. </p>

<p>Anti-Israel viewpoints, I’d expect, are more likely to be challenged at a school with a high percentage of Jewish students. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/113155-colleges-large-percent-jewish-students.html?highlight=Jewish[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/113155-colleges-large-percent-jewish-students.html?highlight=Jewish&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I don’t know of any similar list for percentages of Palestinian or Muslim students. However, I would expect that the more selective the school, the more likely you are to encounter articulate, well-informed people who care about the issues (possibly from one perspective or another) and will speak up about them.</p>

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<p>My fiance asked me to post his answer: “University of Haifa”. :p</p>

<p>Very classy how you make sure to say that Jews aren’t necessarily pro-Israel, so a large number of Jews doesn’t mean anything, but you assume in your list that a lot of Palestinians/Lebanese or an active Muslim community means that the school is anti-Israel.</p>

<p>This may shock you, but Noam Chomsky is one person in a university community the size of a small town. Same with the late Rachel Corrie and Evergreen State. I would say that MIT’s “Israel right or wrong” group is usually more active than its “Palestinians right or wrong” group (these characterizations are mine, not theirs ;)), though it depends on how bogged down with work the people in those groups are at any given time. I would also say that this was not exactly a central issue on campus.</p>

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<p>Why would a character on Another World have anything to do with Anti-Israel sentiments?</p>

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Very true, I must admit!</p>

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<p>I would recommend looking abroad-maybe in Iran or Egypt. Most people in the US are anti-terrorist and thus inclined to support Israel.</p>

<p>False. A lot of college students and professors in america are anti-israel. Why do u think sites like campus watch exist?</p>

<p>[Campus</a> Watch](<a href=“http://www.campus-watch.org/]Campus”>http://www.campus-watch.org/)</p>

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<p>Columbia and Brown are probably the worst of the Ivies</p>

<p>Columbia had ahmadinejad speak on campus. Not sure about brown.</p>

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<p>How is it false? I said most, not all. Of course some people out there are going to be anti-Israel, but the majority of people in this country (and by extension a majority of our college students) support Israel.</p>

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<p>Okay im just a little confused… this is not from an offending point of view, but…
What does it matter if a college is pro-israel or not? </p>

<p>Please make me understand. I am empathetic towards this issue.</p>

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<p>Is it just me or is this whole thread somewhat ridiculous?</p>

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<p>If the list’s criteria is “schools where an anti-Israel speaker has ever spoken or taught”, it’s going to be a very long list. It will also be pretty much the same list as that for “schools where pro-Israel speakers have ever spoken or taught”. </p>

<p>If your concern is with finding a campus where a strongly pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian student can feel comfortable, that’s a different question. Some students on either side might thrive in an environment where there are active student groups on both sides. Other students might want to avoid schools where they’d feel embattled. Looking at the size of the Jewish or Palestinian population on campus is a start, but by no means the end. Contacting national advocacy organizations that do a lot of on-campus work (e.g. AIPAC for pro-Israel) would be another approach.</p>

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<p>Okay im just a little confused… this is not from an offending point of view, but…
What does it matter if a college is pro-israel or not? </p>

<p>It matters to jewish students who are targeted by profs and other students for supporting israel. Jews are the only people its okay to hate on campus now. They need to know what schools have a lot of students and profs that are hostile to israel so they can avoid them. Okay so hampshire is 17% jewish but they still divested and swarthmore and evergreen are pretty damn close. Israel is the most threatened country in the world right now. Its also important to know these campuses so we know where we have to work to support israels image so students will know the truth before anti-israel students and profs get them first. Example: Bard College is a very liberal hippy school and they fired an anti-israel jewish prof last year. So if it can happen there it can happen at any of these campuses.</p>