At Drexel University, anti-Israel protesters demanded that college officials “terminate” its chapters of both Hillel and Chabad, two Jewish student organizations, as a condition of ending their illegal encampment on campus. Neither organization is part of, or sponsored by, the state of Israel. Hillel is the standard Jewish cultural hangout on college campuses — it was founded in 1923, before Israel even existed. It is social and non-denominational, while Chabad is more religious.
Campus Reform reports:
The Drexel Palestine Coalition (DPC) set up the encampment on Saturday and made a wide-ranging list of demands to administrators, including demands to close a Starbucks, end printing services with Hewlett-Packard, end agreements with Israeli universities, and more.
The group also demanded that Drexel administrators terminate the university’s Hillel chapter, which it describes as a “global zionist campus organization.” It also called on administrators to terminate Drexel Chabad…The DPC also demanded that Drexel President John Fry “publicly and explicitly condemn the Israeli settler colonial project…”
Earlier, at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Black Studies faculty engaged in a “day of interruption” to “protest protections for Jews,” reported the The College Fix. The university’s “Black Studies Department…organized a “day of interruption” for March 7 and subsequent ‘work slowdowns’ to protest steps administrators recently took to support Jewish students” after antisemitic protests and threats on campus.
At San Francisco State University, left-wing students offered to donate money to pay for the killing of Jews.
Earlier, The College Fix reported on how diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) staff harbor high levels of antisemitism.
Harvard told Jews to “hide” their menorah at night during Hanukkah.
In a 2023 Harvard-Harris poll, most young adults surveyed said they believed “Jews as a class are oppressors.” But the survey results may have been skewed in favor of left-wing students at elite colleges, who are more likely to harbor antisemitism.
Colleges allowed masked pro-Hamas rallies even in states that have laws banning public mask-wearing except for Halloween and health reasons, even though colleges would never tolerate mask-wearing right-wing protesters. With their identities hidden, these mask-wearing pro-Hamas protesters were emboldened to commit acts of vandalism and to physically threaten classmates they view as “Zionist.”
