Many Universities Have Done Nothing to Protect Jewish Students From Harassment

“The armed resistance should not be referred to in crude, inhumane terms such as terrorists.”

An anti-Zionist academic, Susan Abulhawa, refused to participate in a panel discussion with a pro-Israel speaker. “University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Academic Department Deletes Letter to Students Accusing Israel of ‘Genocide,’” by Dion J. Pierre, Algemeiner, January 5, 2024:

Later, the event was canceled after Abulhawa allegedly refused to share a stage with a Zionist. In its place, the school’s Graduate Employee Organization (GEO) held a panel in which UIUC Students for Justice in Palestine member Sara Hijab said, “I hope you realize the evil Zionism is and that it has no place anywhere in the world.” Labor and Employment Relations professor Augustus Wood added, “The armed resistance should not be referred to in crude inhumane terms such as terrorists,” apparently referring to Hamas….

So Abulhhawa and her colleague Laila El-Haddad did not appear after all. That panel discussion was cancelled because Abulhawa could not bring herself to appear on the same stage as a “Zionist.” But in its place, the Graduate Employee Organization put on a panel discussion that in its anti-Israel virulence did not disappoint. Sara Hijab of Students for Justice in Palestine described the “evil” of “Zionism,” and insisted that it “has no place anywhere in the world.” When she says this, she is calling for an end to the Jewish state, and its replacement by a twenty-third Arab state. Alone among the peoples of the world, the Jews are in her view not entitled to their own country. She would like us all to forget how Jews fared in their exile over thousands of years. She refuses to recognize that Jews have been living in what they call Eretz Israel, the Land of Israel, since 1500 B.C., more than two thousand years before there was a single Muslim in the area or, indeed, anywhere in the world.

What terms would Augustus Wood think appropriate to describe the Hamas terrorists who beheaded babies, burned children alive, gang-raped, tortured, and murdered young girls, sliced the breasts off women, gouged out the eyes and cut off the genitalia of men, murdered children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children? Are these Hamas murderers not deserving of having what he describes as “crude, inhumane” terms such as “terrorist” applied to them? Isn’t that what Hamas lives for — to “strike terror” in the hearts of Israelis? Unlike Augustus Wood, I don’t think that term —“terrorist” — is too harsh and “inhumane.” I think it is not harsh enough, to describe the fiendish glee with which Hamas killers tormented and murdered helpless Israelis.

Many universities, including some of the most prestigious, such as Harvard and MIT — where a Jewish faculty member has just resigned in protest at the failure of the administration to protect Jewish and Israeli students and faculty — have done nothing to protect Jewish students from harassment and bullying, apparently thinking the protection of such students on campus is not part of their remit. But if any group of students is being menaced, as Jewish students now are on so many campuses, how are they expected, given their anxiety, to be able to concentrate on their studies? How can they possibly learn? University administrators need to study Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, wherein they will find that they have a duty to protect all students from intimidation and harassment on the basis of their ethnicity, race, or religion.

Two university presidents have had to resign for failing to recognize their duty to punish antisemitic threats and attacks on their campuses. More will follow, as the complaints by Jewish students and faculty about antisemitic behavior going unpunished on other campuses become public, and spread far and wide on social media. Congress is now set to open an investigation into the matter. Bill Ackman, the Harvard alumnus and billionaire hedge fund owner who, enraged by Claudine Gay’s “it depends on the context” response when asked by a congresswoman whether antisemitic bullying violated Harvard’s code of conduct, has now stopped his contributions to his alma mater, and urged other rich alumni to do the same.

Now that the broad public has been made aware of the antisemitism on campuses, and administrators have been put on notice, both by alumni and by Congress, that they need to do much more to make campuses safe for Jewish students and faculty, the pro-Palestinian groups are going to face a very different, less forgiving atmosphere. They won’t be allowed to spread their hate as they have done until now. No more yelling about “globalize the Intifada.” Slogans that call for the eradication of Israel, such as “From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free,” will not go unpunished. No more will these anti-Israel groups be able to surround single Jewish students and prevent them from moving, all the while yelling hate speech at them. No longer will they get away with blocking them from entering buildings, or banging menacingly on doors of classrooms where Jewish students have barricaded themselves inside, afraid of being assaulted. Administrators have gotten the message; campus and regular police will disperse those anti-Israel mobs, and arrest those among them who refuse to do so.

And now Congressional Republicans have announced they are opening an investigation into antisemitism on American campuses. That’s just the beginning. They also want to study the effects of the DEI madness — the unholy trinity of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” — on faculty hiring and promotion, course offerings, and more. Things are looking up.

The Top Ten Campus Hate Groups in America
Fall 2023 Campus Report 
By Sara Dogan

#1: Georgetown University, Black Law Student Association
#2: University of Buffalo, Young Democratic Socialists of America
#3: Boston University, Students for Justice in Palestine
#4: Florida State University, Students for a Democratic Society
#5: Louisiana State University, Cooperation Rouge and the Black Student Union
#6: University of New Mexico, Southwest Solidarity Network
#7: San Francisco State University, General Union of Palestinian Students
#8: University of Michigan, Students Allied for Freedom and Equality,
#9: University of Chicago, Students for Justice in Palestine
#10: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Young Democratic Socialists of America

The Public Funding of Campus Hate

The stated purpose of higher education is the search for truth and wisdom, but in recent years, the American college campus has become little more than an echo chamber where radical, far-left, ideology can be refined and then disseminated into the wider national culture. Today’s college campuses are ruled by idealogues who view the world through the Marxist categories of the oppressor and the oppressed and seek to destabilize and dismantle America in the hopes of fomenting a revolution. Backed by millions of dollars in federal and state monies, University administrators and faculty teach impressionable students that America was founded on “systemic racism,” a stain that allegedly lingers to this day. They fund Middle East Studies departments and institutes which openly propagate Jew-hatred and advocate for the destruction of Israel. They promote the racist ideology of Critical Race Theory and the sexist and unscientific doctrine of transgenderism, all while using the iron fist of bureaucracy and speech codes to eliminate all dissent.

It should therefore not be surprising that student organizations and clubs on campus have become little more than vehicles of resentment and hatred directed at our nation, at Jewish students and supporters of Israel, and at the founding principles that are supposed to buttress the universities themselves—open discourse and academic freedom.

The following report names the Top Ten Campus Hate Groups in America. These groups have openly and proudly aimed anti-Semitic libels at Jewish students and organizations. They have praised terrorists and cop-killers as heroes because the ideology of these criminals matches their own. They have endorsed racist policies and principles as a path toward achieving a more just society. They have taken it upon themselves to decide what views are allowable on publicly funded university campuses and which must be shouted down as “hate speech.”

Our aim in publishing this report is twofold. First, we hope to expose and reveal the radical hatred that the Left has woven into the fabric of our universities for all the world to see. Second, we demand that the universities named in this report launch investigations into the student organizations and groups named here, to see if their conduct violates federal and university policies. If the universities named herein refuse to take up that burden, we urge state and federal legislators to do it for them.

Our universities have become the cesspit of American society, where bad ideas and rhetoric stew, unhindered by reason, truth, or common sense, while the stench seeps out into our broader culture. Student organizations on campus play a key role in repackaging and rehabilitating failed philosophies like Marxism, Jew hatred, and racism as the shining path to a better future. We must expose and confront the radical ideologies and hatreds simmering within these collegiate organizations to impede their spread beyond the ivory tower.

Read the full report HERE.