{"id":138971,"date":"2023-12-13T16:07:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T21:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=138971"},"modified":"2023-12-13T16:07:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T21:07:02","slug":"jewish-students-face-swastika-intifada-calls-amid-hanukkah-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/jewish-students-face-swastika-intifada-calls-amid-hanukkah-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish students face swastika, \u2018intifada\u2019 calls amid Hanukkah celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Colleges increase security at religious events as antisemitism reports grow<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jewish students celebrating Hanukkah are being met with swastikas and calls of \u201cintifada\u201d this week on college campuses amid mounding reports of antisemitism.<\/p>\n<p>In response, some colleges have increased security for religious events during Hanukkah, which began Dec. 7 and continues through Friday. The holiday is a religious celebration in which Jews remember the restoration of the temple in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, other colleges are being accused of ignoring antisemitism.<\/p>\n<p>At Columbia University, a crowd of students shouted, \u201cLong live intifada!\u201d \u2013 a chant \u201cwidely recognized as a call for violence against Jews\u201d \u2013 on Monday, the fifth day of Hanukkah, the Israeli news site <em>CTech<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calcalistech.com\/ctechnews\/article\/hk7kejs8a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cLong live intifada!\u201d heard yesterday at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Columbia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Columbia<\/a> on the fifth day of Hanukkah.<\/p>\n<p>The chant is widely recognized as a call for violence against Jews and supporters of the State of Israel. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZNt5iauhpF\">pic.twitter.com\/ZNt5iauhpF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; James Spiro (@JamesSpiro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesSpiro\/status\/1734503054043464039?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Shai Davidai, a Jewish assistant professor at Columbia\u2019s business school, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaiDavidai\/status\/1734432984445468833\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> on X that the chants violate school policy and the protest was unauthorized, but university leaders did nothing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s been 24 hours since supposedly banned student organizations at @Columbia chanted \u2018Long live the intifada,\u2019\u201d Davidai <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShaiDavidai\/status\/1734756417016406068\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> Tuesday. \u201cThe silence of @Columbia&#8217;s President, Provost, and Board of trustees is deafening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at Ithaca College, a swastika was found on a rock wall near its Kosher Kitchen on Dec. 7, the first night of Hanukkah, <a href=\"https:\/\/theithacan.org\/52032\/news\/swastika-found-drawn-outside-terrace-dining-hall-on-first-night-of-hanukkah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to <em>The Ithacan<\/em> student newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>La Jerne Cornish, president of the private New York college, denounced the Nazi symbol and promised to investigate the incident in an email to the whole campus Dec. 8.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe absolutely denounce this ignorant and hateful act of antisemitism,\u201d Cornish said. \u201cActs of hatred have no place on our campus, and we must join together to condemn them and reaffirm that Ithaca College must remain a safe space for every member of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said the college will provide additional security during upcoming Hanukkah celebrations on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Similar antisemitic acts at Ohio State University this fall had students asking about security measures during Hanukkah, too, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc6onyourside.com\/news\/local\/hanukkah-celebration-at-osu-drawing-concerns-over-safety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to <em>ABC 6<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Deitsch, operations director of the Chabad House, a Jewish student center at Ohio State, said she received \u201cnumerous texts from Jewish students\u201d asking about security measures at their public Menorah lighting Dec. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, the event draws hundreds of students, but many are \u201chesitating because of this mood on campus that they might actually be in danger,&#8221; Deitsch told <em>ABC 6<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this fall, two Ohio State students were assaulted near the Jewish center and Israeli flags were vandalized at the campus Hillel Center, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel, Jewish faculty and students have reported a huge rise in antisemitism on U.S. campuses, including messages that \u201cHitler was right,\u201d \u201cgas the Jews,\u201d and \u201cfrom the river to the sea,\u201d <em>The College Fix<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/nyu-indifference-to-antisemitism-violated-jewish-students-civil-rights-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some university leaders are being accused of not doing enough to crack down on the problem.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the president of the University of Pennsylvania <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/breaking-university-of-pennsylvania-president-board-of-trustees-chair-resign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resigned<\/a> after saying that calling for the \u201cgenocide of Jews\u201d may not always violate school harassment and bullying policies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/nyu-indifference-to-antisemitism-violated-jewish-students-civil-rights-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NYU \u2018indifference\u2019 to antisemitism violated students\u2019 civil rights: lawsuit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IMAGE: Jyurinko\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n            <div class=\"article-truncate-control\">\n                <button class=\"show-complete-article\">\n                    Read More                <\/button>\n            <\/div>\n\n        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colleges increase security at religious events as antisemitism reports grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1334,"featured_media":96078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1361],"tags":[1407,67,209,14865,2503,7363],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/JewishIsraelstudent.Jyurinko.Shutterstock.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Oh4L-A9t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138971"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138983,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138971\/revisions\/138983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}