Jewish Students Decry Antisemitism on College Campuses

Jewish college students expressed outrage on Dec. 5 over what they say is the failure of higher education institutions to deal with the rise in threats and acts of antisemitism on campus amid the latest conflict between the Jewish state of Israel and the terrorist group Hamas. During the press conference following the weekly House GOP meeting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student Talia Kahn lamented that her campus, where she also attended as an undergraduate, has “an extremely toxic antisemitic atmosphere.” She accused MIT President Sally Kornbluth of refusing to deal with antisemitism on campus. One instance of antisemitism at the world-renowned school was a recent protest where anti-Israel activists called for “Intifada,” or the massacre of Jews in Israel, and echoed the rallying cry “from the river to the sea”—a call for the Jewish state’s annihilation....