Jewish Faculty Facing Hate. According to a new survey conducted by ADL and the Academic Engagement Network, their fellow faculty and staff are key drivers of the antisemitism faced by Jewish faculty on U.S. college campuses. Jewish-identifying faculty report they have been targeted for boycott, smear and doxxing campaigns by fellow faculty, administrators and staff. As one faculty member said: “This is as bad as it gets. This has been a multi-prong attack on me because I stood up regularly against antisemitism on campus.” Significantly, Jewish faculty report a profound personal and professional toll: 38 percent reported feeling a need to hide their Jewish and/or Zionist identity on campus. ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt called for more support for these embattled educators: “Universities must recognize that academic excellence cannot thrive when faculty members are marginalized based on their identity.”

👉 TAKE ACTION: Your voice carries weight. Join ADL in calling on the schools you care about to make their campuses safe from hate. Click here to use our advocacy tool to write to a school's leadership and urge them to take action in support of students and faculty.

+READ: Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine. A comprehensive look at FSJP, a growing network of more than 130 affiliated anti-Zionist and anti-Israel university faculty and staff groups that organize anti-Israel activities on campus, boost local SJP chapters, advance BDS and challenge institutional ties to Israel.

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NYU. We are appalled to see that a student at New York University found antisemitic graffiti on their dorm-room door. No one should be threatened or harassed based on their identity. Thank you to the NYU administration for swiftly condemning this heinous incident as an outrage and disgraceful; the school launched an immediate investigation; ADL calls for those responsible to be held accountable. More reporting on NYU doorways...as a follow up to our coverage of a recent incident where a mezuzah was taken from a student's door, the university has determined that the matter was not antisemitic in nature. ADL is thankful for the university’s swift and thorough investigation, which underscores the importance of taking all incident reports seriously.

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Breaking up is hard to do. Because nothing says “productive campus activism” like splitting from the already-anti-Zionist group to form your own super-anti-Zionist crew, a clutch of Jewish student activists who had formerly been part of a JVP campus group but disaffiliated have launched the Anti-Zionist Jewish Student Front. Tired of JVP’s “boring” pivot to lobbying and messaging like “anti-Zionism ≠ antisemitism,” this new faction is done with subtlety and nonprofit niceties. Their plan? Go full throttle on “confrontation,” divestment and labeling Zionism as a tool of white supremacy. With a logo mashing up Yiddish and Arabic slogans and a declaration of allegiance to a “global student intifada,” the group wants to take the fight to university institutions. JVP politely confirmed the split while wondering when exactly they became “the moderates.”

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Cornell. Jewish and LGBTQ+ students at Cornell were targeted with violent antisemitic and homophobic emails spoofing the university president’s account. (‘Spoofing’ means that the emails were set up to deliberately impersonate another person’s email account). Cornell officials confirmed the messages included “menacing content about individuals and groups at Cornell and in the local community,” and the FBI is now investigating. The Grinspoon Hillel Center condemned the attempt to “sow fear,” stressing that “Cornell is a place where all are welcome.” ADL NY/NJ added their appreciation for “Cornell's swift investigation and are grateful for their efforts to ensure that all students are safe and supported.”

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Brandeis. Brandeis University, founded in 1948 as a bold Jewish answer to exclusion in higher education, is leading with vision. Under new President Arthur Levine’s “Arthur’s vision,” the school is restructuring into four integrated schools, prioritizing long-term faculty over adjuncts, expanding innovative majors and launching initiatives like a first-ever Center for Jewish Life (in a partnership with Hillel). Backed by 87% of faculty, the new plan reflects collaboration over crisis.

Noble Noshing. As the school year starts, a series of unity dinners will be held at schools across the country that bring together Black and Jewish students. The events, held by the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism along with the United Negro College Fund and Hillel International, are a pragmatic effort to reduce isolation among Jewish students and to shore up historic civil rights connections between Black and Jewish communities by inspiring personal connections on campus. The overall program kicked off in 2024, and this Fall's unity dinners will kick off in New Orleans, with students from Tulane, Xavier, Dillard, and Loyola.

A previous unity dinner in this campaign. (Source: standuptojewishhate and uncf on Instagram)

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Kosher Lobster or Shellfish Wisdom on Jewish Pride. Red Lobster’s comeback story — ditching gimmicks for focus, quality and market ownership — inspired Dave Sorani, CEO of the Jewish Grad Organization (JGO), to reflect on the Jewish nonprofit world. Like Red Lobster, JGO has doubled down on the basics, offering Shabbat dinners, leadership training, Jewish learning and networking that meet graduate students’ real needs. The results: JGO now engages 10,500 Jewish grad students across 156 campuses — about 25% of the North American market. With 43,000 Jewish grad students nationwide, Sorani argues, the future leadership of Jewish communities depends on investing in this population. As he puts it, “Jewish grad students matter. They deserve Jewish community, too, and they need it now more than ever.”

Hill Hearings on K-12 Antisemitism. The U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee hosted a hearing titled “From Playground to Classroom: The Spread of Antisemitism in K-12 Schools.” ADL appreciates the Committee’s focus on the growing crisis of antisemitism in education that undermines the safety and integrity of our schools. There must be more support for Holocaust education to teach about the importance of confronting antisemitism and hate; adequate funds for the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights; resources and training for administrators and educators to ensure they promptly respond to incidents of antisemitic harassment, and mechanisms to hold educators accountable if their actions normalize antisemitism or delegitimize Jewish identity. You can see the letter ADL sent to the House Education & Workforce's Subcommittee.

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Ontario K-12 Schools. A new Canadian government report found that since 10/7, at least 781 antisemitic incidents were reported in K-12 schools in the Ontario province (the home province of half of the country’s Jews). Nearly one in six of these incidents were initiated or approved by a teacher or involved a school-sanctioned activity, the report found, and one in eight parents who took part in the report said that they moved their children to a different school as a result of antisemitism concerns. “These latest revelations are a searing indictment of what we’ve been hearing anecdotally for some time now,” said Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center President and CEO Michael Levitt.

• 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.
• University Administration — Guidance and best practices for making campuses safer and more inclusive.
• Campus Antisemitism Report Card — See the grades of 135 universities, the current state of antisemitism on campus and how colleges and universities are responding.
• General Campus Resources — ADL Backgrounders, Educational Programming, Research and Analysis and more.
• 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.
• K-12 Advocacy Resources — Tools and knowledge to foster and advocate for a safe, inclusive and equitable school environment for all.
• K-12 Advocacy Resources for Independent Schools — Additional resources for members of independent K-12 school communities.
• 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.
• Report an Antisemitic Incident.

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