Jewish students are “under siege” on campus, as 73% report feeling unsafe on campus following the Oct. 7 attack and subsequent anti-Israel campus initiatives.
Seventy-three percent of Jewish students reported feeling less safe on campus after the Oct. 7 attack, and it is not the fear of an attack on American soil that scares them but the increasingly hostile environment campuses have become for Jewish students as anti-Israel initiatives gain momentum.
“Generally, there’s more of a lack of knowledge among college students about BDS,” Cooperman said. “And then, once gain information about BDS, it quickly turns people to also acknowledge the antisemitic sentiments, too.” The poll additionally looked at how college students in general feel about Israel and BDS, finding a stark contrast between the sentiment of college students and the average person.
“The perspectives of young people are so different and really lack a lot of historical context of the evolution of Israel. So I’m not saying it’s realistic that there can be a countereducation effort, but I think we’ve got to try to give people information beyond trying to fight these resolutions,” Cooperman continued.
“University leaders need to ask how it is that our finest institutions are turning out a generation of students who so easily succumb to the vilest forms of prejudice. This means taking a hard look at the whole constellation of programs that are supposed to make colleges better and instead are making them worse: everything from DEI to anti-racist programming to critical race theory to liberated ethnic studies to post-Colonial curricula to the whole identity-industrial complex,” he said.
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