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One-third of non-Jewish college students in US are hostile to Jews or Israel – study

Around one-third of non-Jewish college students embraced patterns of ideas hostile to Jews or Israel during the 2023-24 academic year, according to a new study by Brandeis University researchers.

The study, published Thursday by the university’s Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, helps paint a clearer picture of the attitudes undergirding the widespread tensions over Israel and Gaza that spread across campuses last year, leading to disruptive protests and university crackdowns.

It found that about 15 percent of students surveyed were hostile to Israel, with many believing, for example, that Israel has no right to exist. It also found that nearly a quarter of non-Jewish students overall said they did not want to be friends with people who support Israel’s existence as a Jewish state, a stance the survey said had the effect of “ostracizing nearly all of their Jewish peers.”

The survey found that 16% of non-Jewish students were hostile to Jews but not to Israel, believing in enduring antisemitic ideas such as that Jews have too much power in America. Two percent of respondents were hostile to both Jews and Israel, and exhibited the highest rate of antisemitic attitudes.

How many refused to say they were anti-Semites for the study? But, this is how you get the huge numbers of Jew haters protesting at places like Columbia University, which as a student population of over 36,000. Would it be acceptable to have 16% be haters of Blacks? Would the school hold lots of mandatory seminars and training sessions? Or just expel them? How about if these same people were involved in “Islamophobia”? Of course, the Islamists are the primary force driving the Jew and Israel hatred on college campuses, just as the Muslim Brotherhood intended, using the Muslim Students Association as the platform. For some reason the U.S. has continued to allow and bring in radical Islamists from around the world in a post 9/11 world.

Len Saxe, the study’s co-author, said dealing with campus antisemitism is “a solvable problem,” but that universities and the Jewish community need to do a better job of understanding the varied ways in which non-Jews think about Jews and Israel.

I hope that paragraph is not in full context, because, can you imagine the uproar if it was “the black community need to do a better job of understanding the varied ways in which non-blacks think about blacks”? It’s victim blaming.

Among the beliefs the survey put forward, 19% of non-Jewish students said that “Israel does not have the right to exist” and 24% agreed that “I wouldn’t want to be friends with someone who supports the existence of Israel as a Jewish state.” Seventeen percent said they had a favorable view of Hamas.

Another statement, that “supporters of Israel control the media,” was endorsed by nearly 43% of non-Jewish students.

Colleges are hotbeds of Jew hatred and pro-terrorism.