As the death toll in the Middle East mounts, the vitriol across American campuses has too, with threats, discrimination, and online harassment popping up at universities nationwide since the war be…
Students from Balboa High School protest in front of their school in San Francisco, Calif., joining students from Berkeley and Oakland on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023 in a protest against Israel’s bombing of Gaza, and to demand a ceasefire. As the war between Israel and Hamas rages, students across the Bay Area have become tangled in its ideological crossfire.
That message, written by professors Hatem Bazian and Ron Hassner, came right below another from the university chancellor, acknowledging the “growing prevalence” of online threats and harassment tied to the war.saying they held Israel “entirely responsible” for the violence unfolding in the Middle East, for example, the conservative group Accuracy in Media circled Harvard with a digital billboard.
For Judith Frydman, a professor of biology at Stanford, hearing about that class was a gut punch. Frydman, who is Jewish, grew up in Argentina — and at just 12 years old had been forced to stand up for being Jewish on her first day of school. Those feelings have also surfaced at the high school level, sometimes for the opposite reason: a lack of acknowledgement at all. Tali Lehrer, a Jewish student at Palo Alto High School, said she hasn’t been able to focus on her classes, homework or much of anything since the war began.
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