How a Group of Mothers Is Taking on Anti-Semitism at America’s Universities

Published on December 14, 2023

A Facebook group of predominantly Jewish mothers saw one of its projects bear fruit when University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigned on Dec. 9, four days after her controversial congressional testimony. Elizabeth Rand, founder of new group Mothers Against College Antisemitism (MACA), said the thing that really got her back up on the subject was a photo from a pro-Palestinian demonstration at George Washington University that showed an Israeli flag in a garbage can. Ms. Rand, an insurance lawyer who describes herself as a political moderate, said campus anti-Semitism had never really been on her radar. It wasn’t an issue when she was a student at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in the 1980s, she said....

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