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Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19298/jew-hate-universities
Jew-Hate at American Universities
(Gatestone Institute) Col. Richard Kemp - A new study by the antisemitism watchdog Amcha Initiative documents a pervasive, relentless assault on Jewish identity at U.S. universities. The report paints a stark picture of an increasing, intensifying and carefully coordinated campaign of attacks on Jewish identity at over 60% of the colleges and universities that are popular with Jews, including 2,000 incidents intended to harm Jewish students since 2015. This is being done under the spurious and despicable cover of delegitimizing Israel, spreading blatant lies about the Jewish state and conspiring to prevent those lies from being exposed or countered by seeking to ban anyone who dares speak or even show support for the truth. The Amcha report quotes Pew polling data showing that more than 80% of American Jews view Israel as integral to their Jewish identity. However these campus activists might pretend otherwise, they are attacking Jews. A 2021 poll from the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law shows "Nearly 70% of the students surveyed personally experienced or were familiar with an anti-Semitic attack in the previous 120 days. More than 65% of these students have felt unsafe on campus due to physical or verbal attacks, with one in 10 reporting they have feared they themselves would be physically attacked. And roughly 50% of students have felt the need to hide their Jewish identity." It is neither exaggeration nor hyperbole to say that the sustained campaign against Jews at U.S. universities in the 21st century could have been modeled on Jew-hate at German universities in the 1930s. German non-Jewish students, who had pioneered antisemitism on campus before 1933, not the government, led the charge against their Jewish fellow students in the early Nazi years, bullying and intimidating them. Jews were excluded or expelled from the German Student Federation and other student groups not because of any state edict but because of pressure by other students. The writer, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, was chairman of the UK's national crisis management committee, COBRA.