{"id":47864,"date":"2016-11-04T17:05:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=47864"},"modified":"2016-11-02T09:36:21","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T07:36:21","slug":"04-05-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=47864","title":{"rendered":"BDS spurs anti-Semitism on campuses, says Brandeis study"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.timesofisrael.com\/images\/thetimesofisrael-529x60.png\" alt=\"The Times of Israel\" width=\"35%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/bds-spurs-anti-semitism-on-campuses-says-brandeis-study\/\" target=\"_blank\">BDS spurs anti-Semitism on campuses, says Brandeis study<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>JTA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers find strong predictor of hostile environment toward Jews, Israel is presence of active Students for Justice in Palestine groups<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-large wp-post-image aligncenter\" title=\"File. Muslim students at an anti-Israel protest at the University of California, Irvine, in 2006. (Mark Boster\/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images\/JTA)\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.timesofisrael.com\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Campus-BDS-e1456268346623-635x357.jpg\" alt=\"File. Muslim students at an anti-Israel protest at the University of California, Irvine, in 2006. (Mark Boster\/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images\/JTA)\" width=\"95%\" \/><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">File. Muslim students at an anti-Israel protest at the University of California, Irvine, in 2006.<br \/>\n(Mark Boster\/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images\/JTA)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Reports of anti-Semitic incidents on US college campuses have increased, much of it attributed to the rise of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, a new report has found.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Researchers at the Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University conducted the study, which was released in late October. It was based on a survey taken in the spring among Jewish undergraduate students at 50 US campuses who applied to go on the Birthright Israel trip.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The study found that Brooklyn College, Northwestern University and many of the schools in the University of California system are \u201chotspots,\u201d where the majority of Jewish students perceive a hostile environment toward Israel and over one-quarter sense a general environment of hostility toward Jews on their campus. On these campuses, it appears that the high rates of anti-Semitic harassment and hostility are largely driven by malice toward Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The study also found that at the University of Wisconsin, Rutgers University and the University of Illinois, hostility toward Jews and anti-Semitic harassment are relatively high but do not seem to be highly connected to criticism of Israel. At these schools, more traditional anti-Semitic stereotypes and tropes seem to be driving the perceived hostility toward Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The study also found that one of the strongest predictors of a perceived hostile environment toward Jews and Israel on campus, according to the Brandeis study, \u201cis the presence of an active Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) group.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The campuses selected for the study were not chosen randomly, according to the report, \u201cbut were purposely sampled based on the estimated size of the campus Jewish population, geographic diversity, public\/private status, selectivity, and prior evidence of high levels of anti-Israel hostility or anti-Semitism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Some 75 percent of those surveyed reported hearing hostile remarks toward Israel and more than 20 percent said they had been \u201cblamed for Israel\u2019s actions because they are Jewish.\u201d About one-third of those who answered the survey reported being witness to \u201csome form of anti-Semitic harassment, often Israel related.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The study also found that there are many schools where anti-Semitism and hostility to Israel are negligible. Respondents at several large private universities, including the University of Miami, Washington University and Syracuse, perceive very little hostility toward Israel, and virtually all of those respondents disagree that there is a hostile environment toward Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Pro-Palestinian students at University College London disrupt an Israel advocacy event on campus on October 28, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.timesofisrael.com\/uploads\/2016\/10\/UCL-protest-e1477666705604-635x357.jpg\" alt=\"Pro-Palestinian students at University College London disrupt an Israel advocacy event on campus on October 28, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube) \" width=\"95%\" \/><em><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Pro-Palestinian students at University College London disrupt an Israel advocacy event on campus on October 28, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The study\u2019s authors concluded that while public discussion has focused on legislative remedies to temper anti-Semitism and anti-Israel hostility on college campuses, based on the present research, \u201cour view is that more emphasis needs to be placed on educational strategies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cThe complex picture painted by this study not only suggests a different policy emphasis, but also reinforces the importance of systematic research to assess the prevalence of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel environments on campuses, and their impact on Jewish students,\u201d they said. \u201cFuture research should focus on understanding the dynamics of hostility as they are reflected on different campuses and how they are experienced by both Jewish and non-Jewish students.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> twoje uwagi, linki, wlasne artykuly, lub wiadomosci przeslij do: <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BDS spurs anti-Semitism on campuses, says Brandeis study JTA Researchers find strong predictor of hostile environment toward Jews, Israel is presence of active Students for Justice in Palestine groups File. 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