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February 18, 2021       Share:    

Source: https://www.inss.org.il/publication/antisemitism-and-israel-delegitimization-on-the-us-campus/

Study Finds Increase in Anti-Zionism at U.S. Universities

(Institute for National Security Studies-Tel Aviv University) Prof. Miriam F. Elman - Most U.S. campuses are not awash in anti-Semitism, nor are they hotbeds of anti-Semitic forms of anti-Zionism. Yet on hundreds of campuses, a new set of realities has emerged for Jewish students. Far-left anti-Semitism that expresses a view of Israel that traffics in anti-Jewish conspiracies has increasingly become normalized on U.S. campuses, where Jewish students are being demoralized as imperialists, racists, and even Nazis and white supremacists. Students have increasingly reported that they are afraid to express their Jewish identity, including their support for Israel, lest they be excluded from campus life and the causes that they care deeply about. Hillel International reported that anti-Semitic incidents reached an all-time high during the 2019-2020 academic year. The writer is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University.

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