Pervasive Antisemitism Present in US College Classrooms, Curricula, Faculty, ADL Finds

No holiday from antisemitism

The antisemitism that has engulfed the world has become entrenched. Since October 2023, it has aimed concretely at the disappearance of Israel and the erasure of the Jews, first and foremost through their social and cultural exclusion.We have seen Jews excluded from festivals, universities, cinema and publishing. Now, during the summer vacation season, we are seeing another face of this erasure.The globe is a crowded web of routes for encounters…

Pervasive antisemitism present in US college classrooms, curricula, faculty, ADL finds

"Universities cannot claim to be addressing antisemitism seriously if they ignore what happens behind the classroom door and inside faculty governance," said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.

ADL reports find professors pushing anti-Israel bias, antisemitism in university classrooms

Even as student-driven protests against Israel and the war in Gaza have quieted down on college campuses, two new Anti-Defamation League reports reveal rising levels of antisemitism and anti-Zionism in university classrooms nationwide driven by faculty, noting that some instructors are still presenting one-sided views on Israel as fact, assigning readings by terrorist groups and offering extra credit for attending anti-Israel protests. “The Facu…

Conspiracy theories may link antisemitism to hostility toward Israel, study finds

Conspiracy theories may link antisemitism to hostility toward Israel, study finds. Rutgers researchers find antisemitic attitudes predicted later belief in anti-Israel conspiracy theories, which in turn predicted hostility toward Israel, though they stress findings correlational and do not show that criticism of Israel is inherently antisemitic The post Conspiracy theories may link antisemitism to hostility toward Israel study finds appeared fir…

This High School Wouldn’t Fix Its Antisemitism Problem

In less than three weeks, the first day of school arrives for Yorktown High School in Arlington, Virginia, which has about 2,600 students and is so academically ambitious that the 10 heaviest backpacks worn by students exceeded 20 pounds each, The Yorktown Sentry student newspaper reported in April. Yorktown’s mission statement says that it will “support students by name, strength, and need.”But an investigation by the Virginia attorney general’…