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Source: http://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2015/05/anti-semitism-goes-to-school/
Anti-Semitism on American College Campuses Is Worsening
(Mosaic) Ruth Wisse - On three successive days last summer, Boston police had to protect a student rally for Israel from pro-Palestinian mobs shouting "Jews back to Birkenau!" At the University of California-Irvine, this year's Israel Independence Day festivities were blocked and shouted down by anti-Israel demonstrators. Every year, some 200 campuses host a hate-the-Jews fest: "Israel Apartheid Week." At UCLA and Stanford, Jewish students running for election to the student government were challenged on the grounds that their "strong Jewish identity," manifested by travel to Israel, made them untrustworthy candidates for office. This move to place Jewish students under automatic suspicion for being Jewish made it impossible to maintain any longer the distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. The writer is a research professor in Yiddish and comparative literature at Harvard.