Anti-Semitic incidents rising on college campuses

Anti-Semitic incidents were sadly somewhat common at the University of Illinois when I was a student there. But they were all rash affairs, presumably committed by drunks who may not have remembered their criminality the following morning.

The Student Free Press reports on jackals who seem to be putting more thought behind their bigotry.

On a Monday during Hanukkah, someone took eight Hebrew texts down from the shelves of Indiana University's Wells Library, put the books in eight different bathrooms, threw them in toilets and urinated on them.

The next day, two rocks were thrown into Jewish buildings on Indiana’s campus.

The same week, a large menorah at the University of Florida was uprooted and vandalized — the night after people heckled the Hillel center, yelling, "F*ck the Jews."

California seems to be a trouble spot, according to Kenneth Marcus, the former staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

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Marcus attributes the increase in anti-Semitic incidents like these to a number of factors, including the state’s left-leaning tendencies, larger Arab and Muslim population and campuses more tolerant of extremist ideologies.

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin is a lecturer in Hebrew at the University of California-Santa Cruz, faulted faculty members: "It's anti-Zionist faculty who use their position as faculty members to promote a political agenda. She adds. "I think that what happens in the classroom influences what happens in the campus square and gives it legitimacy."

Read below to find out what happened to a man who spoke up for Israel  while on campus.

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