Antisemitism on Campus: George Washington University’s Response Shameful

George Washington University’s beleaguered Jewish community is reeling from twin incidents of antisemitism on campus — and is still waiting for the school’s administration to show that it cares.

During the Jewish high-holiday season last month, activists from Students for Justice in Palestine staged a demonstration outside the center of Jewish life at GW, the Hillel building, shouting, “Israel is a terrorist state!” They were protesting a speech given on campus by Doron Tenne, a former Israeli Defense Forces intelligence official, at the invitation of two Jewish student groups. They held signs and chanted for the use of violence against Israel and the Jewish people: “There is only one solution, intifada revolution.” (The word “intifada” references periods in Israeli history when hundreds of Jews were murdered by Palestinian terrorists in suicide bombings and stabbings.) Less than a week earlier, signs reading “Zionists F*** Off” had been pasted on the light posts around the Hillel building and affixed to a bench on GW Hillel’s property.

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Bobby Miller is an ISI Fellow at National Review and a graduate student at Georgetown University.

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George Washington University’s beleaguered Jewish community is reeling from twin incidents of antisemitism on campus — and is still waiting for the school’s administration to show that it cares.

During the Jewish high-holiday season last month, activists from Students for Justice in Palestine staged a demonstration outside the center of Jewish life at GW, the Hillel building, shouting, “Israel is a terrorist state!” They were protesting a speech given on campus by Doron Tenne, a former Israeli Defense Forces intelligence official, at the invitation of two Jewish student groups. They held signs and chanted for the use of violence against Israel and the Jewish people: “There is only one solution, intifada revolution.” (The word “intifada” references periods in Israeli history when hundreds of Jews were murdered by Palestinian terrorists in suicide bombings and stabbings.) Less than a week earlier, signs reading “Zionists F*** Off” had been pasted on the light posts around the Hillel building and affixed to a bench on GW Hillel’s property.