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Hillel and the ADL have joined a chorus that includes the enemies of Israel and the Jewish people in demanding an expansion of legal protections for the Jew-hating, Israel-bashing perpetrators harming Jewish students. It is concerning to think that two Jewish organizations could advocate for appeasing antisemitism instead of defending Jewish students.
Over the last 18 months, we have all watched in horror as Jewish students have been and continue to be openly attacked, harassed, terrorized, prevented from going to classes, blocked from walking across college quads, punched in the head, stabbed with flag poles, subjected to acts of vandalism, called Nazis and baby-killers and Genocide-supporters, confronted with daily Hamas-aligned riots calling for murdering every Jew on the planet (“globalize the intifada”) and made unsafe on college campuses throughout the country. And their universities have allowed this campus terrorism to mushroom out of control.
This tsunami continued to grow while the Biden administration failed to heed the repeated calls of members of Congress and the Jewish community demanding action to halt the campus pogroms and hold their organizers and enablers accountable.
Republican Reps. Virginia Foxx from North Carolina and Elise Stefanik from New York held eye-opening hearings focused on campus antisemitism, which resulted in the on-the-record refusal of university presidents to acknowledge that calling for the murder of Jews violates campus policies. Each of these hearings demanded action from the university presidents and the Biden administration but ultimately fell on deaf ears – and led to the presidents’ resignations.
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