Georgetown’s Dirty Secret: Jewish Students Under Siege

At Georgetown University, being openly Jewish today means putting a target on your back.
Being a conservative Jewish student and a Republican? That’s practically an invitation for harassment.

I came to Georgetown because I believed in its promise: faith, freedom, and intellectual exploration. What I’ve found instead is a university where Jewish students — especially those who proudly support Israel and reject radical leftist dogma — are demonized, dehumanized, and left to fend for ourselves.

This year alone, the mask has slipped.

• A menorah was smashed in Red Square during Hanukkah — a hate crime Georgetown refused to call by its name.
• Students marched through campus chanting “From the river to the sea,” a slogan calling for the eradication of the world’s only Jewish state — while administrators looked the other way.
• A Holocaust Remembrance event was disrupted by protesters comparing Jewish survivors to “colonizers” — a sick, twisted rewriting of history tolerated in the name of “free speech.”
• Jewish students, including myself, have been called “white oppressors,” “settler scum,” and worse simply for defending Israel’s right to exist.

This isn’t ignorance. This is bigotry, pure and simple.

Meanwhile, hate groups like Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) spread anti-Jewish conspiracies about “Zionist money” and “media control,” get university funding, and enjoy the full protection of campus leadership.

When Jewish students are attacked? We’re told to stay quiet.
When Jewish events are defaced? We’re told not to “provoke.”
When Jewish students demand equal protection? We’re told to check our privilege.

Privilege?

Tell that to the Jewish freshman who found a swastika scrawled on her dorm room whiteboard last semester.

Tell that to the Jewish student who had to leave class early because his professor allowed a 20-minute unhinged rant comparing Israel to Nazi Germany — without a word of pushback.

Georgetown’s silence is complicity. Its cowardice is betrayal.

This university, with all its fancy talk of “cura personalis” — care for the whole person — has abandoned its Jewish students at the precise moment we needed them most.

And here’s the harsh truth: if you’re a Jew who keeps your head down, bashes Israel, and parrots leftist slogans, you’ll be tolerated. Maybe even celebrated.
But if you dare to be a Jew who stands up proudly, who refuses to apologize for loving Israel and America — you are an enemy.

I will not apologize for who I am.
I will not apologize for my faith.
I will not apologize for my beliefs.

Georgetown can either stand with its Jewish students — or it can stand exposed as a hypocritical institution that only cares about “inclusion” when it’s politically convenient.

We are done asking politely.
We are done being silent.
We are here. We are Jewish. We are proud. And we are not going anywhere.