When the ADL Center on Extremism recently analyzed statements made by more than 130 university encampment organizers, they found that found that more than two thirds (more than 70) have voiced demands that, if enacted, would alienate and disrupt (thereby causing trauma) the lives of Jewish students and faculty. No other ethnic group is facing this onslaught of vitriol at American college and university campuses. It would be prohibited. It is NOT playing together.
The demands extend beyond urging administrations to call for a ceasefire or denounce Israeli government policies.
If students at a public high school staged a walking protest and encampment, demanding all Jewish students be removed from the campus, it would not be tolerated by parents, school administration, campus attendants or teachers. It would be immediately recognized as inappropriate, violent and harassing and something would be done to end it. Such behavior would not be tolerated nor labelled as freedom of speech.
In many cases, organizers are calling upon universities to sever ties with significant Jewish campus organizations, including Hillel International, whose main objective is to support Jewish students and provide them with a place to build community. There are also calls to divest from charitable organizations that fund Jewish academic research and Jewish life, as well as ban “Zionist” speakers from campus. Many of the statements made by encampment organizers attacked Jewish trustees and donors, drawing on classic antisemitic tropes regarding Jewish control and power. In the most extreme cases, some student protestors have not just advocated for the exclusion of Jewish students from campus life but have called for “death” to Zionism and Zionists, an overt incitement of violence.
Altogether, these statements and actions clearly deviate from peaceful protest. If it were being done to Black Americans by Arabs/Arab American students, it would have been immediately addressed. But it is being done to America's Jewish Diaspora, which is largely white-appearing Ashkenazi Jews, so people are sitting back and doing nothing - just as was done during the harassing, terrorizing pogroms (including raping, threatening, beating and killing of Jews) and expulsions that took place in ancient times under the Romans and Babylonians and in more modern times from Arabs in Yemen and Morocco, from Arab tribes like the Palestinians, from Russia's deadly Cossacks, Hitler's Nazi Germany and al of the Arab-Israeli conflicts in the 20th and 21st centuries (including the October 7 massacre by the Arab Palestinian tribe's terrorist military Hamas).
The lives of Jewish students have been disrupted and endangered by the allowed perpetuation of violent hate speech against them and the institutions that in many cases offer them a safe haven.
There is a stark and important difference between nonviolent demonstrations and hostile rhetoric and harassment that largely isolates and jeopardizes Jewish individuals on campus.
No matter how much they claim it is freedom of speech, these supporters of the Arab Palestinian tribe and their military representative, terrorist group Hamas, it is not. This is not a game or a philosophical exercise of freedom of speech. Hamas and the Arab tribe of Palestinians do not want a two state solution. They want to take over the ancient land of Israel and they are using American institutions of higher learning to accomplish the goal.
This is a real life attempt to lie about Arab and Jewish history; it is a real time attempt to isolate and eliminate Jews from American colleges and universities; it is a real life attempt to make Israel defenseless and weaponless, then eliminate the Jews in their own historically indigenous land of Israel (the only Middle Eastern democracy), take over the land and create a massive Arab caliphate.