Email from Zionist Organization of America   ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA NEWS RELEASE ZOA: ADL’s Campus Antisemitism Recommendations Are Weak, Vague and Inadequate. Conference of Presidents Should Have Consulted ZOA and Many Other Conference Members Before Endorsing It. Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: This week, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (CoP) signed on to recommendations prepared by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) entitled “What Universities Should Do to Prepare for the Academic Year.” The CoP is an umbrella group for approximately 50 Jewish organizations across the political and religious spectrum. Yet the CoP endorsed ADL’s inadequate and weak recommendations without a dialogue, discussion or consulting with the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) – a founding charter member of the CoP – and many other member organizations. Despite a frightening and dangerous surge in campus Jew-hatred/Jewish State-hatred, with a few exceptions, the ADL’s recommendations for universities are vague, weak, and inadequate and omit vital tools and do not go far enough to ensure that the civil rights and safety of Jewish students and faculty will be protected. By endorsing the inadequate, weak ADL statement, the CoP missed a crucial opportunity to urge ADL to strengthen their recommendations to help universities ensure that Jewish students are provided with the physically and psychologically safe learning and living environment they are legally and morally entitled to. This is not a time for half-measures. Campus antisemitism is dangerous and intolerable today. Among other horrors, hate groups, especially SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine), FSJP (Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine) and WOL (Within Our Lifetime), lead pro-Hamas demonstrations calling for murdering every Jew (“Globalize the Intifada”) and for destroying Israel (“From the River to the Sea”). Such groups also seize and desecrate campus buildings, block Jewish students’ access, and violently attack Jewish students. Antisemitic professors libel and propagandize against Israel, and harass Jewish students. Foreign funding supports anti-Israel academics. “DEI” programs discriminate against Jews and teach discriminatory concepts such as “white privilege.” Universities find ways to circumvent the Supreme Court decision outlawing race-based admissions policies, and instead continue to discriminate against admitting Jewish students and hiring Jewish faculty members; Jewish admissions especially at the most distinguished colleges have dropped to a tiny percentage of their level only a decade ago. A. Missing items: Below is a list of important items entirely missing from ADL’s recommendations: 1. Expelling or monitoring hate groups: The ADL’s recommendations never mention but should urge expulsion or, at a minimum, vigilant monitoring of hate groups such as SJP, WOL and FSJP. SJP has been the main perpetrator of campus antisemitism for years, well before the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023. A 2016 Brandeis University study on campus antisemitism found that one of the strongest predictors of perceiving a hostile campus climate toward Israel and Jews was the presence of an active SJP chapter. 2. Expelling violent, etc. students: ADL’s recommendations never mention but should urge expelling students who engage in antisemitic violence and harassment. 3. Vetting: The ADL fails but should urge that universities ask prospective students, especially foreign students, in their admission applications about their views and attitudes toward Jews and Israel in their applications, in the same way that students are often asked about their views on African Americans, diversity, equity and inclusion. This will help ferret out antisemites before they reach campuses. And even if students disingenuously claim to have non-hostile attitudes toward Jews and Israel, the question will indicate that universities are serious about eradicating campus antisemitism and will hold students accountable for bigoted behaviors. Continue Reading   DONATE   Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email     www.zoa.org Copyright © Zionist Organization of America 2025. All rights reserved. Zionist Organization of America | 633 Third Ave 31 B | New York, NY 10017 US Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice