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Round-Up of Antisemitic Incidents
on Campus in 2018


Documented by
AMCHA Initiative 
AMCHA maintains the only publicly available database of antisemitic incidents on U.S. college and university campuses. In 2018, we documented 600+ incidents. Here are some of the worst:  


  • Columbia University - A Jewish professor who teaches and researches the Holocaust found her office vandalized with swastikas and the antisemitic term "Yid" spray-painted in red.
     
  • University of Michigan - In compliance with the academic boycott of Israel, a professor in the American Culture department refused to write a letter of recommendation for a student who sought to study abroad at Tel Aviv University. This was followed by a graduate student instructor similarly denying a letter of recommendation to a student wanting to study in Israel. 
     
  • New York University - SJP members protested an Israeli Independence Day event with chants of "Intifada, Intifada, Long live the Intifada,” stealing an Israel flag from the event where it was ripped, stomped on, defaced and then burned, and violently grabbing a microphone from a female student during the singing of “Hatikva” and shouting "Free Palestine!" SJP's president explained the motivation of the protesters, stating: "Our point is to make being Zionist uncomfortable on the NYU campus.” 
     
  • Carnegie Mellon University - A Jewish student checked out a Jewish-themed book from Hunt Library as part of a research project and discovered large swastikas drawn on its pages and the words “Jews have no business at CMU!” and underneath, in different handwriting, the words “you are right :)”.
     
  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville - The Rock, a large boulder on campus that students can paint with messages, was defaced with multiple swastikas and the words "Kill Jews," "Free Palestine," "Hail Rape," "White man’s land,” "14," "88," "Manson," and “AWD was here,” a reference to the Neo-Nazi group the Atomwaffen Division.
     
  • University of Kentucky - A Chabad Rabbi witnessed the destruction of the Jewish Center's sign. According to the Rabbi: "There were about five or six individuals, including the one that damaged the sign. [I] heard male voices yelling things such as, 'Get the Jews, kill the Jews.' One of them charged at the Jewish Student Center sign, yelling 'Heil Hitler,' and tackled the sign to the ground.”
     
  • University of California Los Angeles - SJP members disrupted a Students Supporting Israel (SSI) event on campus with a violent protest that included storming the room, ripping down Armenian and Jewish flags, chanting loudly, dancing, denigrating the panelists, beating on a glass window of the venue and screaming into a megaphone.
     
  • University of California Santa Cruz - A former student posted antisemitic comments on a thread in the "Official Group of UCSC Students" Facebook group, that included threatening a Jewish woman in the group with the words: "Hey Jewish c***, you want to get shot dead? I own firearms and would love to use you as target practice."
     
  • Towson University - Two members of the Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi were assaulted by two suspects who followed them, shouting "F**k the Jews." One of the suspects then punched one of the Jewish AEPi members in the face.
     
  • University of Miami - A Jewish student who lived in a campus dormitory discovered a large swastika drawn on the whiteboard hanging on her door.
     
  • San Francisco State University - The official Facebook page of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) program shared a post by AMED's director Professor Rabab Abdulhadi stating that she considered "welcoming Zionists to campus... to be a declaration of war against Arabs, Muslims, [and] Palestinians.” That same day, the message "Zionists are Not Welcome" was chalked in huge letters on campus walkways and printed on flyers posted across campus.
     
  • University of Michigan - Two days after the antisemitic Pittsburgh massacre, the head of the school's Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies said at an event organized by his department to explicitly promote BDS, that he decided not to cancel the event after the massacre because “the answer to violence is non-violent collective action like what we're talking about today...the merits of BDS.” 
     
  • New York University - 53 NYU student groups pledged to participate in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement by boycotting NYU’s pro-Israel clubs, Realize Israel and TorchPAC, in addition to pledging to engage in other academic boycott activities at NYU.
     
  • Pitzer College - The Pitzer faculty senate voted to suspend the College’s study abroad program with Haifa University, in compliance with the academic boycott of Israel.
     
  • California State University Northridge - Graffiti was discovered in the mens' bathroom at Sierra Hall containing the threatening message "Mass Shooting in Sierra Hall 12/12/18" and a swastika, and another message that read "Die Ni**ers and Jews."
     
  • University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Matthew Heimbach of the white socialist nationalist Traditional Workers Party spoke on campus and made numerous antisemitic remarks, including: “We are the solution. The ‘final solution’ you might ask? (audience laughter) to the globalist problem... yes, to be able to deal with... being used as pawns by Zionists"; "We believe in a strong environmental policy like banning kosher [food]"; "A hooked-nose banker moving ones and zeros around isn’t labor"; and "We’re fighting globalism and imperialism and the Jewish control of our system".

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