The sharp increase in antisemitic searches after October 7 suggests, according to the report, a worrying escalation in negative attitudes towards Jews.
Coming to Israel with a solidarity delegation, he told Herzog, is sending a message of solidarity to Israel and a message to university campuses: “When we get back to the US, we won’t be afraid.”
YU is the convenor of a historic coalition of more than 100 colleges and universities, United Against Terrorism, and was the first of its kind to put a spotlight on campuses in the aftermath of Oct 7
On October 7, "the sewer covers popped open, allowing the filth of antisemitism to become more noticeable and pervasive," Daroff told The Jerusalem Post.
Presidents from MIT, Harvard, and UPenn testified following a Department of Education investigation into rising antisemitic incidents since the Hamas terror attack on Israel.
Kanye West, who obtained the title "Antisemite of the Year" in 2022 by the Campaign Against Antisemitism, went on an antisemitic rant in Las Vegas earlier in December.
“One truth about myself,” he says, “which I never thought, for one, single second, would be an issue about which I had any cause to worry in this country was that I’m a Jew.”
The Brandeis Center is a Washington, DC-based nonprofit with the goal of advancing human rights for Jews. The group has filed numerous legal complaints against US universities for antisemitism.
The months since the war started, another front has developed: Antisemitism. This front does not comprise soldiers, artillery, or tanks, but it is still important.
Alice Walker, author of "The Color Purple," in the mid-2010s began promoting works by an antisemitic conspiracy theorist and authored an antisemitic poem of her own.
Administrators hope such committees generally made up of a mix of faculty, alumni and students can help coordinate productive responses to the challenge of antisemitism on campus.