New Webpage Details Students’ Testimonies of Anti-Semitism

On Monday, June 22, the AMCHA initiative launched a new webpage filled with testimonies from Jewish students who have been subject to anti-Semitic acts on college campuses across the country. An article in The Algemeiner states that “students at 47 colleges and universities in 20 states” recounted these incidents for the webpage.

The testimonies detail truly horrific acts, including both physical and verbal abuse. A number of students were attacked for wearing the Star of David or wearing shirts with the word “Israel” or Hebrew lettering on them, while others received racist remarks about the Holocaust, Nazis, and the nation of Israel. The article states that all the testimonies posted on the website were “stated publicly at student government meetings or have been quoted by the press.”

The AMCHA initiative is a non-profit watchdog organization that seeks to fight anti-Semitism on college campuses in the United States. The Brandeis Center works with AMCHA frequently, including recently joining to write a letter to University of California President, Janet Napolitano, about an anti-Israel class at UC Riverside, and urging President Napolitano to adopt the State Department definition of anti-Semitism, which she has since publicly supported.

The testimonies of these Jewish students come as another sober reminder that campus anti-Semitism is on the rise in America.