College Chaos: Jewish students fear their peers

At Columbia University, Jewish students and faculty were barred entrance after anti-Israel protesters erected encampments on school property, threatening and harassing their Jewish peers.

The atmosphere at that university has become so antisemitic, the university’s campus rabbi has told Jewish students not to return to campus, and in-person classes have been canceled for the remainder of the school year.

Similar scenes are playing out at Yale University where 40 protesters were arrested, and a Jewish student was rushed to the hospital after she was jabbed in the eye with a flagpole by a protester.

These obscene events are not unique to well-known Ivy League universities; they have spread to campuses across the country. Numerous CUFI students report witnessing antisemitic incidents at universities large and small.

Maria Munoz, a student at the University of Texas at Austin said, “On my campus, support for the taking of Jewish lives has been cloaked as support for the ‘resistance.’ On April 24, crowds of students marched on the University of Texas at Austin campus carrying a giant banner that said: ‘Long live the intifada.’”

The protests have garnered praise from Hamas which released a statement supporting anti-Israel encampments on U.S. college campuses and against efforts to restore calm.

The atmosphere at that university has become so antisemitic, the university’s campus rabbi has told Jewish students not to return to campus, and in-person classes have been canceled for the remainder of the school year.

CUFI on Campus student leaders and CUFI’s Bonhoeffer Fellows are defending Jewish students on their campuses, partnering with Jewish campus clubs for activism, and sharing personal messages of encouragement via social media, but they need our support!