My friends at the AMCHA Initiative, an organization dedicated to documenting and combatting campus anti-Semitism, have just released a new report that shows how the nationwide campaign against Israel on college campuses has resulted in attacks against the very identity of Jewish students themselves. According to AMCHA, these assaults upon Jewish identity have doubled in the past year on many campuses. That indicates to me that aside from any legitimate opposition to Israel's policies vis-a-vis the Palestinians, the pro-Palestinian movement in academia is anti-Semitic (Jewish) in itself, as I have always maintained.
The AMCHA Initiative identifies not only pro-Palestinian students as responsible sources of the problem, but organizations like Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the anti-Israel Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), promoters of the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions movement against Israel (BDS), as well as various faculty members and academic departments.
AMCHA's press release can be accessed here, and the actual report here.
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