New Study: College Newspapers Single Out Israel for Harsh Criticism

(Algemeiner) Dion J. Pierre - A new report released on Monday by Alums for Campus Fairness, a U.S. watchdog monitoring antisemitism in higher education, documents bias against Israel in campus newspapers. In a survey of newspapers at 75 U.S. colleges, only 17% of 1,450 articles published about Israel since 2017 were positive. Moreover, 307 out of 585 editorials portrayed Israel negatively. "These same newspapers are notably silent on antisemitism and discrimination against Jews on their own campuses," ACF said Monday. "Campus media is extremely biased against Israel." Of the campus newspapers surveyed, the most negative stories about Israel were published by New York University, Harvard, Stanford, and University of California-Berkeley.


2022-09-22 00:00:00

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