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Welcome to ADL’s Campus Alert: for the latest news, analysis and resources that affect students so you can stay informed and make your voice heard.
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📰 Top Stories
ADL Report on Academic Associations. ADL released its new assessment of
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The State of Antisemitism in Professional Academic Associations, revealing how antisemitic bias among scholars extends far beyond faculty meetings. The report warns that when prejudice takes hold in academic associations, it can influence entire professions, as well as the students they teach. Jewish members described feeling unsafe at conferences, silenced in discussions and pushed out of the professional spaces that once served as their academic homes. The report urges reforms to ensure intellectual honesty, inclusivity and accountability.
👉 TAKE ACTION:
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Join ADL in calling on Congress to hold these influential organizations accountable to protect Jewish members from discrimination.
~~~~~
Harvard. When a Harvard Crimson columnist
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declared it “justifiable” to end friendships with Zionists, Rabbi Jason Rubenstein didn’t mince words in his lacerating response. The executive director of Harvard’s Hillel called the op-ed “exactly the kind of shunning, ostracization, [and] demonization” of Jews that his community has been warning against. He said the column “echoes” Austria in the 1930s and points to a “moral crusade that will take Jews as some of its victims.” Ironically, the dubious op-ed ran as part of the paper’s “Amateur Ethicist” series. Rubenstein said the piece reflects a broader national trend of antisemitic exclusion.
DEEPER: ADL is pushing back against this kind of isolation. Read more about
[link removed]
'The Six Asks' that we are urging every college to use so they can address hostility on campus.
~~~~~
Mississippi.One bite, everybody knows the rules—except maybe the Mississippi State student who
[link removed]
hurled antisemitic slurs (and coins) at Barstool’s Dave Portnoy during a pizza review. While Portnoy was in Starkville reviewing a slice (a 7.2, if you’re curious), a student shouted “F*** the Jews” and threw coins, all caught on
[link removed]
video. The student was arrested for disturbing the peace and quickly withdrew from school. Portnoy, who is Jewish, reflected on the rising tide of antisemitic hate he is seeing, telling
[link removed]
CBS, “This is not normal ‘ha ha’ with the guys.”
[link removed]
ADL seconded Portnoy’s complaint, saying that the incident reflects a troubling rise in open antisemitism.
Portnoy (holding pizza box) confronts antisemitic heckler. (Source: Dave Portnoy | X)
~~~~~
MIT. In what may be the first campus protest case to reach a federal appellate court, a group of Jewish students came out on the short end as
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MIT prevailed against claims from the students that the school had been “deliberately indifferent” to how anti-Israel incidents on campus affected the climate for Jewish students there.
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Circuit Judge William Kayatta explained that the panel of judges found that “even if the protestors’ conduct as a whole was actionable harassment under Title VI, MIT is not liable because it was not deliberately indifferent to the effects of the protests on Jewish and Israeli students.”
Anti-Israel encampment at MIT in Spring of 2024 (Source: The Tech, MIT)
~~~~~
Berlin (Germany). In an eyebrow-raising turnabout, Jewish students at Berlin Technical University
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occupied a campus building for an actual good cause -- to protest antisemitism. Bear in mind that this comes at a university where the President ‘liked’ a social post that put a swastika on the face of Israel’s Prime Minister, and in a city where there have been repeated anti-Israel demonstrations at many schools over the past two years. The “Occupy Against Antisemitism" student group says they are particularly concerned about recent student council election victories by antisemitic students who glorified Hamas.
A sign unfurled by Jewish student protesters in Berlin. (Source: besetzung.gegen.antisemitismus/Instagram)
~~~~~
Student Attitudes. An alarming new survey
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suggests that two years after 10/7, American university students are nearly 25% more likely to disapprove of the Israeli government than of Hamas. Conducted for the Israel on Campus Coalition (ICC), the poll also found that more than half of respondents support anti-Israel protests on campus and less than half said that Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state. ICC CEO Jacob Baime said the data “lays bare the daily reality for Jewish students.”
DEEPER: If you are a college or high school student, you can make a difference against antisemitic and anti-Israel bias.
[link removed]
ADL’s Words to Action prepares Jewish students to respond effectively to antisemitism. Get involved through ADL's live workshops or online modules.
~~~~~
Washington D.C. In a winning night where a serious point was made lightheartedly, more than 100 students from six area colleges gathered at George Washington University for a Unity Dinner aimed at
[link removed]
reviving the historic Black-Jewish alliance -- and what better way to break the ice than with the age-old question: is a hot dog a sandwich? Sponsored by Hillel International, UNCF and the Blue Square Alliance, the dinner skipped the talking points and leaned into vulnerability, laughter and identity. One takeaway from a Howard freshman: “the Jewish community and the Black community are low key kind of the same.” This D.C. event was one of 14 such events taking place across the country this year.
🎒 K-12
Massachusetts Schools. In a conclusion that shocked absolutely no one who reads this newsletter,
[link removed]
a report released by the Massachusetts Legislature’s Special Commission on Combating Antisemitism found that antisemitism is a “serious concern” in the state’s K-12 schools and universities and that some Jewish students and faculty have faced harassment or felt the need to conceal their Zionism or Jewish identities. Among the
[link removed]
report’s recommendations are to address antisemitism in digital literacy programs, create a Jewish American Heritage Month in schools and establish a body to ensure the implementation of a genocide education program in K-12 schools.
DEEPER: How is your state doing in adopting policies to fight antisemitism? Dig into ADL’s first-of-its-kind
[link removed]
Jewish Policy Index map to see how your home state is faring on issues including education.
~~~~~
Lessons In Hate.
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Across K-12 classrooms, Jewish teachers are being doxxed and students harassed; a number of states are pushing for action in response. In Colorado, a Jewish teacher found a doxxing note on his classroom door after he expressed support for Israel. In California, students allegedly asked peers “what their number is,” referencing Holocaust tattoos. In Massachusetts, a teachers' union shared materials featured a Star of David made of dollar bills. To help educators learn from one another, ADL launched
[link removed]
BEACON (Building Educator Allies for Change, Openness and Networks) since it’s clear that for Jewish students and teachers, classrooms are the front lines in the battle against antisemitism.
GET INVOLVED: Are you an educator who wants to get involved or needs support in creating more inclusive school communities? Join
[link removed]
ADL’s BEACON network now.
🏆 Campus Champions
Concerted Effort is Honored. At
[link removed]
ADL’s In Concert Against Hate event earlier this week, Virginia high school senior Wesley Seidner was honored for what ADL CEO
[link removed]
Jonathan Greenblatt describes as the student’s “remarkable fortitude” and leadership. Seidner speaks out against antisemitism in his school and joined a lawsuit against Fairfax County Schools, pressing for accountability and protections for Jewish students. Also honored at the very musical event, which was hosted by actor/director Jason Alexander, were Marion Ein Lewin, Holocaust survivor and health policy leader; Dr. Michael L. Lomax, President and CEO of the United Negro College Fund and Mayor David Holt of Oklahoma City.
From left: Seidner, Lewin, Greenblatt and Lomax at the Concert. (Source: Getty Images for ADL)
~~~~~
Adrenaline Gone, Passion Remains. “What keeps us in this work when we’re not fending off antisemitic mobs?” After two years of crisis-driven leadership on campus, Hillel Ontario CEO Rabbi Seth Goren is asking great questions about
[link removed]
what comes next. Many Jewish campus professionals face a new challenge: how to lead without the adrenaline rush. In this thoughtful essay, Goren reflects on the disorienting shift from crisis response to long-term strategy. The takeaway? A return to purpose. “Jewish students are exhausted from simply being Jewish,” he writes. The work now is helping them -- and ourselves -- rediscover Jewish identity beyond trauma.
~~~~~
Bruin Up a Response to Pro-BDS Faculty. Among the schools continuing to grapple with concerns about antisemitism is UCLA, which saw encampments and other anti-Israel activism in the wake of 10/7. UCLA’s Faculty for Justice in Palestine and other faculty supporters of BDS have been a particular challenge.
[link removed]
A new essay calls on the school to show its focus on fighting campus antisemitism by ensuring that there are no "departmental partnerships with faculty advocacy groups that promote discriminatory boycotts." As the essay notes, "Jewish and Zionist students deserve to learn without fear" and the role of faculty is vital to a positive campus climate.
DEEPER. Getting ready to consider colleges? One helpful resource is
[link removed]
ADL’s Campus Antisemitism Report Card, which assesses how 135 schools including UCLA are addressing antisemitism.
📣 Info and Action
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Campus Community Advocacy Toolkit — From incident reporting and educational resources to letter-writing campaigns and Know Your Rights factsheets, ADL has clear steps for you to take action and effect change on college campuses.
-
[link removed]
University Administration — Guidance and best practices for making campuses safer and more inclusive.
-
[link removed]
Campus Antisemitism Report Card — See the grades of 135 universities, the current state of antisemitism on campus and how colleges and universities are responding.
-
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General Campus Resources — ADL Backgrounders, Educational Programming, Research and Analysis and more.
-
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Campus Antisemitism Legal Line (CALL) (CALL) — College or university students, professors, or employees who want to report campus incidents of antisemitic discrimination, intimidation, harassment, vandalism or violence that may necessitate legal action can report to CALL for legal support.
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K-12 Advocacy Resources — Tools and knowledge to foster and advocate for a safe, inclusive and equitable school environment for all.
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K-12 Advocacy Resources for Independent Schools — Additional resources for members of independent K-12 school communities.
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K-12 Antisemitism Legal Line — Parents and other interested adults in California, Massachusetts and New York can report incidents of antisemitic discrimination, intimidation, harassment, vandalism or violence occurring in K-12 schools to the K-12 Antisemitism Legal Line.
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Report an Antisemitic Incident.
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Welcome to ADL’s Campus Alert: for the latest news, analysis and resources that affect students so you can stay informed and make your voice heard.
[link removed]
Report antisemitic incidents you've experienced to ADL.
If you want to subscribe,
[link removed]
sign up here.
📰 Top Stories
ADL Report on Academic Associations. ADL released its new assessment of
[link removed]
The State of Antisemitism in Professional Academic Associations, revealing how antisemitic bias among scholars extends far beyond faculty meetings. The report warns that when prejudice takes hold in academic associations, it can influence entire professions, as well as the students they teach. Jewish members described feeling unsafe at conferences, silenced in discussions and pushed out of the professional spaces that once served as their academic homes. The report urges reforms to ensure intellectual honesty, inclusivity and accountability.
👉 TAKE ACTION:
[link removed]
Join ADL in calling on Congress to hold these influential organizations accountable to protect Jewish members from discrimination.
~~~~~
Harvard. When a Harvard Crimson columnist
[link removed]
declared it “justifiable” to end friendships with Zionists, Rabbi Jason Rubenstein didn’t mince words in his lacerating response. The executive director of Harvard’s Hillel called the op-ed “exactly the kind of shunning, ostracization, [and] demonization” of Jews that his community has been warning against. He said the column “echoes” Austria in the 1930s and points to a “moral crusade that will take Jews as some of its victims.” Ironically, the dubious op-ed ran as part of the paper’s “Amateur Ethicist” series. Rubenstein said the piece reflects a broader national trend of antisemitic exclusion.
DEEPER: ADL is pushing back against this kind of isolation. Read more about
[link removed]
'The Six Asks' that we are urging every college to use so they can address hostility on campus.
~~~~~
Mississippi.One bite, everybody knows the rules—except maybe the Mississippi State student who
[link removed]
hurled antisemitic slurs (and coins) at Barstool’s Dave Portnoy during a pizza review. While Portnoy was in Starkville reviewing a slice (a 7.2, if you’re curious), a student shouted “F*** the Jews” and threw coins, all caught on
[link removed]
video. The student was arrested for disturbing the peace and quickly withdrew from school. Portnoy, who is Jewish, reflected on the rising tide of antisemitic hate he is seeing, telling
[link removed]
CBS, “This is not normal ‘ha ha’ with the guys.”
[link removed]
ADL seconded Portnoy’s complaint, saying that the incident reflects a troubling rise in open antisemitism.
Portnoy (holding pizza box) confronts antisemitic heckler. (Source: Dave Portnoy | X)
~~~~~
MIT. In what may be the first campus protest case to reach a federal appellate court, a group of Jewish students came out on the short end as
[link removed]
MIT prevailed against claims from the students that the school had been “deliberately indifferent” to how anti-Israel incidents on campus affected the climate for Jewish students there.
[link removed]
Circuit Judge William Kayatta explained that the panel of judges found that “even if the protestors’ conduct as a whole was actionable harassment under Title VI, MIT is not liable because it was not deliberately indifferent to the effects of the protests on Jewish and Israeli students.”
Anti-Israel encampment at MIT in Spring of 2024 (Source: The Tech, MIT)
~~~~~
Berlin (Germany). In an eyebrow-raising turnabout, Jewish students at Berlin Technical University
[link removed]
occupied a campus building for an actual good cause -- to protest antisemitism. Bear in mind that this comes at a university where the President ‘liked’ a social post that put a swastika on the face of Israel’s Prime Minister, and in a city where there have been repeated anti-Israel demonstrations at many schools over the past two years. The “Occupy Against Antisemitism" student group says they are particularly concerned about recent student council election victories by antisemitic students who glorified Hamas.
A sign unfurled by Jewish student protesters in Berlin. (Source: besetzung.gegen.antisemitismus/Instagram)
~~~~~
Student Attitudes. An alarming new survey
[link removed]
suggests that two years after 10/7, American university students are nearly 25% more likely to disapprove of the Israeli government than of Hamas. Conducted for the Israel on Campus Coalition (ICC), the poll also found that more than half of respondents support anti-Israel protests on campus and less than half said that Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state. ICC CEO Jacob Baime said the data “lays bare the daily reality for Jewish students.”
DEEPER: If you are a college or high school student, you can make a difference against antisemitic and anti-Israel bias.
[link removed]
ADL’s Words to Action prepares Jewish students to respond effectively to antisemitism. Get involved through ADL's live workshops or online modules.
~~~~~
Washington D.C. In a winning night where a serious point was made lightheartedly, more than 100 students from six area colleges gathered at George Washington University for a Unity Dinner aimed at
[link removed]
reviving the historic Black-Jewish alliance -- and what better way to break the ice than with the age-old question: is a hot dog a sandwich? Sponsored by Hillel International, UNCF and the Blue Square Alliance, the dinner skipped the talking points and leaned into vulnerability, laughter and identity. One takeaway from a Howard freshman: “the Jewish community and the Black community are low key kind of the same.” This D.C. event was one of 14 such events taking place across the country this year.
🎒 K-12
Massachusetts Schools. In a conclusion that shocked absolutely no one who reads this newsletter,
[link removed]
a report released by the Massachusetts Legislature’s Special Commission on Combating Antisemitism found that antisemitism is a “serious concern” in the state’s K-12 schools and universities and that some Jewish students and faculty have faced harassment or felt the need to conceal their Zionism or Jewish identities. Among the
[link removed]
report’s recommendations are to address antisemitism in digital literacy programs, create a Jewish American Heritage Month in schools and establish a body to ensure the implementation of a genocide education program in K-12 schools.
DEEPER: How is your state doing in adopting policies to fight antisemitism? Dig into ADL’s first-of-its-kind
[link removed]
Jewish Policy Index map to see how your home state is faring on issues including education.
~~~~~
Lessons In Hate.
[link removed]
Across K-12 classrooms, Jewish teachers are being doxxed and students harassed; a number of states are pushing for action in response. In Colorado, a Jewish teacher found a doxxing note on his classroom door after he expressed support for Israel. In California, students allegedly asked peers “what their number is,” referencing Holocaust tattoos. In Massachusetts, a teachers' union shared materials featured a Star of David made of dollar bills. To help educators learn from one another, ADL launched
[link removed]
BEACON (Building Educator Allies for Change, Openness and Networks) since it’s clear that for Jewish students and teachers, classrooms are the front lines in the battle against antisemitism.
GET INVOLVED: Are you an educator who wants to get involved or needs support in creating more inclusive school communities? Join
[link removed]
ADL’s BEACON network now.
🏆 Campus Champions
Concerted Effort is Honored. At
[link removed]
ADL’s In Concert Against Hate event earlier this week, Virginia high school senior Wesley Seidner was honored for what ADL CEO
[link removed]
Jonathan Greenblatt describes as the student’s “remarkable fortitude” and leadership. Seidner speaks out against antisemitism in his school and joined a lawsuit against Fairfax County Schools, pressing for accountability and protections for Jewish students. Also honored at the very musical event, which was hosted by actor/director Jason Alexander, were Marion Ein Lewin, Holocaust survivor and health policy leader; Dr. Michael L. Lomax, President and CEO of the United Negro College Fund and Mayor David Holt of Oklahoma City.
From left: Seidner, Lewin, Greenblatt and Lomax at the Concert. (Source: Getty Images for ADL)
~~~~~
Adrenaline Gone, Passion Remains. “What keeps us in this work when we’re not fending off antisemitic mobs?” After two years of crisis-driven leadership on campus, Hillel Ontario CEO Rabbi Seth Goren is asking great questions about
[link removed]
what comes next. Many Jewish campus professionals face a new challenge: how to lead without the adrenaline rush. In this thoughtful essay, Goren reflects on the disorienting shift from crisis response to long-term strategy. The takeaway? A return to purpose. “Jewish students are exhausted from simply being Jewish,” he writes. The work now is helping them -- and ourselves -- rediscover Jewish identity beyond trauma.
~~~~~
Bruin Up a Response to Pro-BDS Faculty. Among the schools continuing to grapple with concerns about antisemitism is UCLA, which saw encampments and other anti-Israel activism in the wake of 10/7. UCLA’s Faculty for Justice in Palestine and other faculty supporters of BDS have been a particular challenge.
[link removed]
A new essay calls on the school to show its focus on fighting campus antisemitism by ensuring that there are no "departmental partnerships with faculty advocacy groups that promote discriminatory boycotts." As the essay notes, "Jewish and Zionist students deserve to learn without fear" and the role of faculty is vital to a positive campus climate.
DEEPER. Getting ready to consider colleges? One helpful resource is
[link removed]
ADL’s Campus Antisemitism Report Card, which assesses how 135 schools including UCLA are addressing antisemitism.
📣 Info and Action
-
[link removed]
Campus Community Advocacy Toolkit — From incident reporting and educational resources to letter-writing campaigns and Know Your Rights factsheets, ADL has clear steps for you to take action and effect change on college campuses.
-
[link removed]
University Administration — Guidance and best practices for making campuses safer and more inclusive.
-
[link removed]
Campus Antisemitism Report Card — See the grades of 135 universities, the current state of antisemitism on campus and how colleges and universities are responding.
-
[link removed]
General Campus Resources — ADL Backgrounders, Educational Programming, Research and Analysis and more.
-
[link removed]
Campus Antisemitism Legal Line (CALL) (CALL) — College or university students, professors, or employees who want to report campus incidents of antisemitic discrimination, intimidation, harassment, vandalism or violence that may necessitate legal action can report to CALL for legal support.
-
[link removed]
K-12 Advocacy Resources — Tools and knowledge to foster and advocate for a safe, inclusive and equitable school environment for all.
-
[link removed]
K-12 Advocacy Resources for Independent Schools — Additional resources for members of independent K-12 school communities.
-
[link removed]
K-12 Antisemitism Legal Line — Parents and other interested adults in California, Massachusetts and New York can report incidents of antisemitic discrimination, intimidation, harassment, vandalism or violence occurring in K-12 schools to the K-12 Antisemitism Legal Line.
-
[link removed]
Report an Antisemitic Incident.
Do you have something to share with us? Please email us at
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[email protected] with any suggestions, questions, photos or videos.
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