# Anti-Semitism on College Campuses

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**Created:** [January 4, 2024, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-semitism-on-college-campuses/995608 "2024-01-04T20:35:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2024, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-semitism-on-college-campuses/995608/31 "2024-01-04T22:54:51Z")

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> “Amongst the tweets from the Teaching Assistant were the following that she posted in April and May 2021:…the word “Kristallnacht” above a picture of a damaged storefront with accompanying Hebrew text from another user”

I completely agree that using the word “Kristallnacht” in the context of expressing anti-Zionist sentiments is indefensible and an antisemitic slur.

However, reading your [ETA: No, Jackmannii’s; sorry, this reply should have been to Jackmannii rather than Babale.] linked cite has also made me a bit more doubtful about the allegedly antisemitic nature of the attack on the Hillel building:

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> [The complainants] “advised they’d seen a group of college-aged men outside the building tampering with bikes…[and] yelled down to the men to leave the bikes alone. The complainants advised the males then began throwing…rocks…at windows but I…did not observe any damage to any windows.” […]
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> Another […] student informed the Follow-up Officer that the group might have been there to talk to […] [a resident student who] informed her that “his friends…‘threw rocks at his window until he came out.’” He emphasized “that his friends ‘were not racist’ and had no ill-intent.”

Now, asking somebody in a Hillel building if they are Jewish when that has no relevance whatever to any aspect of the situation is undoubtedly gratuitously rude and intrinsically antisemitic, true.

However, a bunch of rowdy people throwing pebbles at the window of one of their friends in his Hillel residence because they want him to come out and hang with them is a very far cry from a violent antisemitic mob trying to break Hillel’s windows.

I can’t judge from the incident report quotes exactly what it was that happened, but I am not as confident as I was that the window-pelting part was obviously an antisemitic attack.

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