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| Campus Anti-Semitism Skyrockets Even as Coronavirus Forces Remote Learning |
| 2021-02-04 |
| [Free Beacon] Anti-Semitic incidents on American college campuses are rising at "alarming rates" and have migrated to online spaces as students have moved to remote learning due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. At least 2,000 anti-Semitic incidents in total have been recorded since 2017—and include swastikas being spray painted on a Jewish professor's office, a campus performer inviting students to sing a song endorsing anti-Semitism, and scores of students being harassed for being Jewish and having pro-Israel views. "Although campuses closed when coronavirus erupted, and nearly half of colleges began their fall semesters entirely or primarily online, antisemitism has continued both online and offline," states the new report by Alums for Campus Fairness, an advocacy group that codified 50 of the most flagrant examples of campus anti-Semitism reported in the past three years. The report comes as colleges, including San Francisco State University, the University of Illinois, and others, grapple with a sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents. San Francisco University, for instance, was the subject of a civil rights lawsuit alleging "institutionalized anti-Semitism," while the Department of Education launched an investigation last year into University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, citing a string of anti-Semitic incidents. More than half of Jewish students on American college campuses have reported witnessing or being the subject of anti-Jewish harassment. More than 80 percent of American Jews say anti-Semitism in America has increased during the last five years, according to a 2019 study by the American Jewish Committee. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 Canary, coal mine We are facing seriously difficult times |
| Posted by: Gromoting Gretle2784 2021-02-04 22:27 |
| #1 Jew hatred is fashionable again. And once again, the intellectuals of academia take the lead in making it so. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-02-04 19:22 |