Jewish students on campus are still feeling the aftermath of last summer’s Gaza War, according to a new Brandeis University report. Findings reveal that during the 2014-2015 academic year, one in four Jewish college students was blamed for Israel’s actions during the war, and nearly three quarters of students experienced anti-Semitic comments.
While physical harassment is still relatively rare, “verbal harassment is apparently a fact of life for a substantial portion of young Jewish students,” according to the report, “Antisemitism and the College Campus: Perceptions and Realities,” released at a special media event in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
Perhaps counter-intuitively, the authors also found that preliminary surveys conducted immediately following the war indicated an increased level of connection to Israel throughout the school year.
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