From Campus Hostility to Ground Zero: Jewish Student Leaders Confront Rising Hate Young Jewish leaders visited sites of the October 7 attacks and met leaders in Israeli society, arming themselves with strategies to challenge the rising wave of antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses By Nathan Klabin/The Media LineThe Media Line Since the outbreak […]
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From Campus Hostility to Ground Zero: Jewish Student Leaders Confront Rising Hate
Young Jewish leaders visited sites of the October 7 attacks and met leaders in Israeli society, arming themselves with strategies to challenge the rising wave of antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses
By Nathan Klabin/The Media LineThe Media Line
Since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7, 2023, antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment on North American college campuses have escalated to disturbing extremes. Seeking tools to handle such an environment, 40 Jewish student leaders from 30 universities traveled to Israel in late December. The students, from schools including Columbia, Stanford, and the University of Toronto, visited sites of Hamas violence and met with Israeli leaders.
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