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Campus Antisemitism: Enrollment Drops and Protests Escalate · Antisemitism Watch

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Antisemitism Watch. I'm Rachel Adler. We're also
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  Speaker 1: launching Antisemitism Watch, Mid-Atlantic, providing focused coverage from New York,
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey, Connecticut, and the Philadelphia region. Find us at clockworkmedia.org
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  Speaker 1: slash m. A-12 Jewish educators have filed human rights complaints
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  Speaker 1: against four Ontario school boards and two teachers' unions, alleging
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  Speaker 1: workplace antisemitism and retaliation, according to Cleveland Jewish News. The
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  Speaker 1: educators are seeking damages and have requested that the boards
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  Speaker 1: and unions adopt policies addressing antisemitism, including the International Holocaust
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  Speaker 1: Remembrance Alliance working definition. Cited incidents in the complaints include
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  Speaker 1: swastikas found in schools and educators facing discipline or being
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  Speaker 1: ignored when reporting discrimination. On U.S. campuses, radical UCLA students
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  Speaker 1: are planning a march on the third anniversary of the
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  Speaker 1: October 7th attack. and event critics have blasted as depraved,
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  Speaker 1: reports the New York Post. The group Students for Justice
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  Speaker 1: in Palestine at UCLA frames the demonstration as commemorating Palestinian resistance. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: a report in Times Higher Education indicates a sharp decline
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  Speaker 1: in Jewish enrollment at elite universities. Jewish enrollment at Harvard
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  Speaker 1: University has fallen to an estimated 7%, its lowest level
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  Speaker 1: since before World War I-I. with similar trends reported at
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  Speaker 1: Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, according to Hillel estimates
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  Speaker 1: cited in the report. Far-right podcaster Tucker Carlson is facing
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  Speaker 1: condemnation from Poland's embassy in the US for remarks about
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  Speaker 1: Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland, which the embassy states distorted
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  Speaker 1: the historical record and risked rehabilitating Nazi propaganda, according to
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  Speaker 1: the Algeminer. In the UK, the Green Party of England
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  Speaker 1: and Wales adopted a policy labelling Zionism as racism, causing
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  Speaker 1: internal divisions and drawing criticism from the European Green Party.
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  Speaker 1: The First Minister of Wales, Rune App-Ireworth, called the policy ill-judged,
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  Speaker 1: per the BBC. In Europe, Parliament President Roberta Metsola announced
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  Speaker 1: she would take all appropriate steps against an MEP who
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  Speaker 1: threw an Israeli flag to the floor in Strasbourg, according
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  Speaker 1: to Euronews. In New York City, Mayor Zoran Mamdani's new
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  Speaker 1: strategy to combat anti-Semitism is drawing criticism from prominent Jewish organizations.
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  Speaker 1: Yahoo News reports that critics argue the plan fails to
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  Speaker 1: address anti-Zionist rhetoric as a driver of hate. The strategy
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  Speaker 1: includes city funding for synagogue security and hate crime prevention.
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  Speaker 1: But groups like the UJA Federation of New York state
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  Speaker 1: it fails to address a central issue that the mayor
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  Speaker 1: himself has perpetuated. The New York Post reports NYPD Commissioner
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  Speaker 1: Jessica Tisch assured Jewish New Yorkers that the department is
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  Speaker 1: a partner as the city braces for October 7th anniversary protests.
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  Speaker 1: Paris police have banned anti-Israel demonstrations planned for October 7,
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  Speaker 1: citing historically high levels of antisemitism and significant risks of
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  Speaker 1: public disorder, according to Ground News. In Australia, pro-Palestine groups
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  Speaker 1: scheduling vigils on the October 7th commemoration day have drawn
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  Speaker 1: condemnation from Jewish groups and the NSW government, as reported
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  Speaker 1: by 9.como. A recent poll of likely New York City voters,
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  Speaker 1: conducted October 2-6, shows over half of Jewish voters fear
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  Speaker 1: for their safety, with 42% reporting verbal harassment, according to
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  Speaker 1: the New York Post. The survey also found 55% of
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  Speaker 1: Jewish voters feel safety has worsened since October 7. Separately,
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  Speaker 1: a tech worker who denied an Israeli programmer admission to
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  Speaker 1: an AI hackathon, is reportedly campaigning for an Antisemite of
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  Speaker 1: the Week award from Stop Antisemitism, as detailed by the foreword.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Rachel Adler, thank you for listening to Antisemitism Watch.
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