This week, Tablet published a series of letters written by Jewish students on campuses across the country. They describe what it has been like to not go along with the flood of “anti-Zionism” which has overwhelmed these universities for several months. For refusing to join in they have been threatened, bullied and socially stigmatized. This is from a freshman at UC San Diego:
I was born in Israel and have been living in the United States since I was 3. On Oct. 7, as I frantically read the news, a friend on campus told me the attack was my fault and that I am directly “responsible for bombing kids.” Another classmate told me that I can’t possibly be peaceful because “Zionists are genocidal.” Yet another tried to insist that they don’t hate all Jewish people, just the Jewish people of Israel.
From a senior at NYU:
On my campus, however, nuance was the first casualty in a…
