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Anti-Semitism Lives on Big Campuses

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And should elite university denizens question how enlightened they really are. “In the past few months alone, pro-Israel events have been aggressively disrupted at New York University, Syracuse University, UCLA and the University of California, Irvine; numerous fliers, graffiti and chalking stating ‘Zionists Not Welcome on Our Campus’ were found all over San Francisco State University after an SFSU professor wrote on her department’s Facebook page that welcoming Zionist students on campus was a ‘declaration of war’; and a formal complaint was filed by Jewish students at Columbia University against anti-Zionist student groups for systematically harassing and silencing them for more than a year,” Tammi Rossman-Benjamin writes in an op-ed which appeared in the Jewish News Syndicate.

Benjamin heads the AMCHA Initiative which monitors the human rights of pro-Israel students.

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Malcolm A. Kline
Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia. If you would like to comment on this article, e-mail contact@academia.org.

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