![]() Schools ranging from Berkeley to the University of Vermont and the University of Southern California have been the sites of recent campaigns, usually student-led, to root out or target “Zionists” - campaigns which, depending on who one asks, are either par-for-the-course student activism or harmful and antisemitic in nature. ![]() The buzz of activity reflects the extent to which Berkeley has become the latest flashpoint in an ongoing, and contentious, debate over shifting campus attitudes on Israel and Zionism, and the degree to which Jewish students feel comfortable expressing their identities. Setting up a booth reading “Anti-Zionism is Antisemitism,” Tishby debated Berkeley students on Israel. “The addition of more antisemitism, like using Hitler imagery to score cheap rhetoric points, only trivializes the memories of the six million,” ADL’s San Francisco office tweeted, while Berkeley Hillel said on Instagram that it would be available to any students who felt “upset and disturbed” by the sight of the truck.Īfter meeting with Berkeley administrators last week, San Francisco’s Jewish Community Relations Council issued a statement noting that “talk of ‘Jew-free zones’ is factually inaccurate and not productive” and that the Hitler truck is “unwelcome and unhelpful.” But the Council also decried the law student groups’ campaign against Zionist speakers as antisemitic.Ī post shared by JewBelong Noa Tishby, the Israeli actress and author who recently became Israel’s first “Special Envoy for Combatting Antisemitism and Delegitimization,” headed to campus to engage directly with students. “Saw this bus on my morning run,” wrote Grace Stewart, a Berkeley student, on Instagram. Some passersby threw rocks at the vehicle. Weekly.īut whatever the truck’s intended effect, its presence frightened students and drew condemnation from the local branch of the Anti-Defamation League, Berkeley Hillel and the local Jewish Community Relations Council, along with offers of emotional support from university administrators. “The amount of hatred, intolerance, and antisemitism is morally outrageous and it’s time for us to (non-violently) fight back,” Guillette, a former vice president at conservative media sting operation Project Veritas who last week told the conservative news channel Newsmax that he identifies as Jewish, told J. ![]()
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