# Anti-Semitism on College Campuses **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 4, 2024, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-semitism-on-college-campuses/995608 "2024-01-04T20:35:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 300
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-semitism-on-college-campuses/995608/300 "2024-04-22T21:33:59Z")
According to [DSeid’s post near the start of this thread,](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-semitism-on-college-campuses/995608/27) > [@](#): > > What bothered my daughter most was first the bit with the program for support of survivors of sexual support which she had worked with. Materials to volunteers were made into promotion of minimally anti-Zionism and it was declared that anyone who would not condemn Israel was not welcome which persisted despite requests that the important service be open to all. That is, students were excluded from this program not specifically for being Jewish, but for refusing to condemn Israel’s actions. I agree that no valid purpose whatsoever is served by foregrounding the Israel/Palestinian conflict in the context of a sexual-assault survivors’ support services program, but describing that as “kicking out Jewish students” is somewhat misleading. The reporting on “attacks on the Hillel building” on the same campus may also be debatable, as [I discussed above after reading the incident report.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-semitism-on-college-campuses/995608/31) But the harassment of Israel-supporting students, sometimes in unambiguously antisemitic terms, by a particular teaching assistant at UVM is clearly documented. As the advocacy group that filed the formal complaint argued, the university was “permitting a hostile environment that marginalizes and excludes Jewish students for whom Zionism is integral to their Jewish identity.” Although the hostility was directed specifically against Zionism rather than Judaism, that leaves Jewish students who sincerely feel that their Judaism requires them to support Zionism, or even to support the actions of a given Israeli government, caught between a rock and a hard place. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-semitism-on-college-campuses/995608)._