Thank you so much, appreciate that. Thank you for all being here for this important discussion today. I wish the subject didnt need to be discussed at all. Discrimination against the one on the basis of their faith or ethnicity is always wrong. That we have to repeat that refrain today is troubling. Its even more troubling that too many young people perpetrate that kind of discrimination. This administration is committed to stopping it. We stand firmly against the alarming rise of antisemitism, and we acknowledge this reality prematurely is israels capital. [applause] this reality. Jerusalem is israels capital. Theident trump moved capital. Peace in the middle east begins by recognizing israels right to exist. Israel is a light to the region, but we all know it is surrounded by jihadists who embrace people and deny israels existence. And violently work to wipe it off the map. I think of my own visits to the holy land. They were indelible experiences that have shaped me in many ways. Visiting my great uncle and aunt in the netherlands and seeing where they had dozens of fleeing jews behind flour sacks in their bakery during the Second World War also impacted me deeply. The atrocities of the holocaust must never again occur. Never again. [applause] this administration is committed to protecting israel, our strong ally in the middle east only democracy. Israel has a committed friend in the white house and israel has friends at the u. S. Department of education. We are so pleased to have ken marcus as her assistant andetary for civil rights Lee Rubenstein as our acting general counsel. Many of you know both men and their longtime work against discrimination and antisemitism. One of the most pernicious and prevalent examples of antisemitism on campus is the campaign known as bdf. These campus bullies claimed they stand for human rights, but we all know it stands for antisemitism. We recently made clear at Williams College that these kinds of efforts are unacceptable. Students there tried to register a proisrael group, but after much antisemitic uproar, the College Council denied the group recognition. We negotiated a resolution agreement with the college that affords the proisrael Student Group the same rights and privileges as any other Student Group. , recentlynother issue directed an investigation of a conference there that may have been funded by taxpayers. We are looking at whether the conference violated grant terms and perpetuated antisemitism. These are just two examples of what the department of what the department of education is doing to protect students from discrimination. Discrimination based on actual or perceived shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics. We are intent on ensuring protection for students across the country. We are committed to our partnership with attorney general barr and the department of justice on this important issue. I know this discussion will highlight other examples and offer insights on how to continue combating antisemitism on americas campuses. Personal, but it doesnt have to be hidden under a bushel basket, to recall scripture. Americans have fought and died for the right to live their faith in all aspects of their life. This administration is, and always will be, committed to ensuring all believers can live and practice their faith without fear. Thank you, i know this conversation will be useful and important. Thank you very much. [applause] quick scan you all hear me . Thank you for that kind introduction. Im pleased to be moderating this panel on antisemitism on campus. , yous been widely reported cant turn on the news without seeing an article about a Student Group not being recognized or a student not getting a recommendation to study abroad in israel. Clear least i think it is that jewish students feel under threat on campus in a way that they have not in the recent past. Our panel today will discuss the state of play. Are we seeing an increase on campus or just a rise of reporting . What form is the new antisemitism taking . What can and should be done in response . Thats a lot of ground to cover in 90 minutes. I would like to introduce our distinguished panelists. Writes a daily column on domestic politics, israel, and jewish affairs. He is a regular contributing columnist to several publications. For many years jonathan wrote a column in the jerusalem post. He is a graduate of columbia university. Lewinfounder of lewin and , a washington, dc litigation law firm. In 2014, she argued before the u. S. Supreme court a case involving whether an american citizen born in jerusalem may list israel as a place of birth on his or her passport. She is a graduate of nyu loss girl law school. s clinicalobs professor of law and director of a law clinic at cornell. He is currently a contributor to the times of israel where he blogs about topics and or cuts. He spent 23 years in private practice in providence, rhode island. Is a graduate of Harvard Law School and hamilton college. Charles asher smalls founding director and president of the institute for the study of global antisemitism and policy. A new yorkbased nonprofit committed to fighting antisemitism. Scholar atteemed Saint Anthonys college and oxford university. His research focuses on contemporary antisemitism. Hissed her small earned masters degree from University College london and his bachelors from mikael university. Well start by asking each panelist to speak for about eight minutes on a topic related to the larger theme. Mr. Tobin, would you like to begin . Thank you. Its an honor to be here to discuss how to best combat antisemitism and it is encouraging that the department of justice has chosen to highlight the issue in this manner, and we think them for that. Its a matter of no small irony that College Campuses are among the places in this country where antisemitic symptom sentiment has become commonplace. Jews feel threatened by culture of intolerance. That institutions that are supposed to be strongholds of progressive values have become the beachhead on this continent for the spread of what was called a rising tide of antisemitism that has been sweeping across the globe. It is shocking. For anyone who has paid attention to the academic world in the last generation, it is hardly a surprise. The reason for this boils down to one key fact. The growing popularity of antizionism and the way that ideology has been used to legitimize antisemitism and to create a hostile atmosphere in Academic Circles and on some campuses where jews feel not only marginalize but intimidated and threatened. Support for the movement to has not only gained a foothold in academia but in Many University partners, opposition to its discriminatory goal and tactics marks both dissident academics and students as pariahs to be shunned, shouted down, or worse. A situation that is particularly threatening to jews. In this generation, antisemitism has taken on a new form in which israel becomes the substitute for antijewish stereotypes that have been handed down through the ages. In discussing this problem, it is vital that we clarify some popular misconceptions. What is antizionism, and is it, as many of its list on his advocates claim, separate and distinct from hatred of jews . Antizionism is opposition to a jewish state and is focused on activism and advocacy in the United States and terrorism in the middle east for the elimination of the state of israel. It means singling singling out the one jewish state on the planet and making it the only entity of a newly 200 represented in the United Nations that is the focus of an International Movement to erase it from the map, and whose birth and a postwar world in which various conflicts gave rise to scores of new nations is considered an original sin which must be reversed. Just as important is to understand that contrary to the rationalizations put forward five bds advocates, antizionism is not criticism of israel or of its current government and its policies. More than 7 million israelis wake up every morning and proceed to criticize their government, just as more than 300 million americans wake up every day and do the same about some aspect of their state, local, and federal government. Thats life in a democracy. Were criticism of israel is not is itsion to the nor antisemitic. No responsible person would claim that it is. But when one seeks to deny the jews the right to estate in their ancient homeland, no matter where its borders might be drawn, to deny legitimacy to their National Movement in a way that no other nationalism is delegitimized, to deny them the right not merely to sovereignty, but the right to live in peace and the right of selfdefense, that is not your criticism, it is prejudice. That must be the starting point for any discussion of antizionism. What antizionist seat to do is something that is unique to one people and one country. No other people on the planet are treated in this manner or singled out the way antizionist seek to treat the one jewish state. It is true that not every ethnic group has achieved sovereign status in their homeland throughout the world, but there is no other example of an International Movement that is dedicated to eradicating an existing sovereign state, predicated on the notion that its population not only has no right to exert power but no right to live in it, as is the case for jews in israel. To oppose antizionism and to correctly grant it as a form of antijewish prejudice is not necessary to espouse a particular point of view about the middle east Peace Process. Jews andict between arabs which has been going on for more than a century is complex. It is hardly surprising that those who criticize israel stand on the Peace Process ignore the fact that israel has sought several times to offer statehood to the to the palestinians in exchange for peace and into the conflict, and that the palestinians rejected it each time. But those who claim that justice is only to be obtained by denying to the jews the right to statehood over any part of their country, tel aviv, haifa, not just roussell and the west bank, over which these two peoples have contended, when they so readily support many other ethnic, national, and religious groups, of practicing a unique kind of bias. Seen in this light, antizionism and its bds component are not the critique of any israeli policy or politician. Purpose shifting israels borders. His purpose is, and media advocates make abundantly clear in their literature and websites, to deny the jews right , that no one thinks of denying to others. A form oft is discrimination and the term is antisemitism. While it is possible to make academic critiques of israels right to exist that can take on an air of legitimate debate, in practice, on many College Campuses as well as elsewhere, advocacy for antizionism illustrates that it is indistinguishable from traditional forms of antisemitism. The arguments from antizionist and the bds movement raise wish to erase thousands of years of jewish history and faith. They single out israeli actions and judge them not merely by double standards applied to no other democracy, let alone any other middle east country, but seek to maliciously compare it to nazi germany. They treat the one nation that is linked to judaism is legitimate as illegitimate, while ignoring the connections between fades and other dozens of sovereign nations. The arguments against israel and supporters in the United States are also straight out of the includingic playbook, false accusations of dual loyalty in committing crimes. They are rooted in a kind of demonization of jews that is all of familiar for students israel. The members of congress have employed these themes testifies both to the growth of this movement and the unwholesome manner in which it has sought to insinuate its ideas into the national conversation. We dont need to look at their literature to know that antizionism and the bds movement are steeped in it. Wherever they raised their banners, College Campuses or anywhere else, antisemitic acts whether intimidation or even violence always follow. In hijacking of the ideas which the struggles of various minorities are seen as linked enable some academics and journalists to portray the war against the jewish state is somehow analogous to the struggle for civil rights in this country. But this false analogy quit seeks to employ the language of human rights in order to legitimize antizionist rhetoric is rooted in a falsehood. It is those who wish to discriminate against the one jewish state and its people who are spreading hate, not those who seek to defend zionism, which is the National Liberation movement of the jewish people. Those who spread this form antisemitic hate claim they are promoting peace, but their position is antithetical to the cause of peace. It seeks an outcome that can only be achieved by a genocidal war against the people of israel who will not submit to the ethnic cleansing of their country. That is true no matter who is spreading this form of hate, whether nonjews are in the case of a small local leftist minority, jews. Seen clearly, there is no doubt that those who discourse about israel is anchored in a movement to destroy it and to demonize its people and its diaspora jewish supporters are not merely criticizing its government are speaking out in favor of peace or human rights, but engaging in a form of hate that is we must conclude that it must be the policy of the United States and of decent people everywhere to oppose antisemitic agitation and violence whether it labels itself antizionist or some other set of ideas that masquerades as progressive but is actually practicing one of the oldest forms of hatred. Merelyonism is not antisemitism operating under new false front. Those who deny this are spreading a big lie. It is imperative that we not only used his summit as a springboard for action against eight noxious form of hatred and its troubling reappearance within the lifespan of survivors of the holocaust, but also to deny its apparent cloak of legitimacy with which they seek to clothe himself. That is true on College Campuses or anywhere else, but it is especially important that we not let those who seek to educate or those who go to college the right to do so without being demonized or shined. Thank you. Nned. Shu thank you. [applause] good morning. Thank you very much for inviting me to participate in this summit. It is a true honor to be included on this illustrious panel. Most people today are able to recognize traditional or classical antisemitism. The antisemitism that we associate with the swastika or with the nazis. It is more difficult, however, for many to identify antisemitism, the type that jonathan has described. The antisemitism that denies the right of jewish selfdetermination. I would like to focus a little bit more on that form of antisemitism. Its not uncommon today to hear people say, im not antijewish, im just antizionist. But is that really possible . Jews possible to support but oppose zionists . The answer is no. Why . Because zionism is an integral part of jewish identity. Zionism, the yearning and desire of jews to exercise their right to selfdetermination and to reestablish a jewish homeland in the land of israel is an inherent, ancestral, and ethnic jewish characteristic. Zionism is a Political Movement may have originated in the 19th century, but this yearning for zion, the desire for jews to return to their and sister homeland, that is thousands of years old. As old as abraham in the bible. To be a zionist means to support this right of jewish selfdetermination in the ancestral homeland of the jews. If i celebrate the fact that jews have returned once again to the land of israel, if i celebrate that the jewish state of israel exists, then i am a zionist. Those who oppose zionism deny jews this right. The father of the late journalist daniel pearl has coined the term for this. Zionaphobia, and irrational hatred of a homeland for the jewish people. The International Holocaust definition alliance is denying the jewish people their right to selfdetermination by declaiming claiming it is a racist endeavor. The definition recognizes that is defect oh antisemitism. My maternal grandmother was a. Ix generation jerusalemite her ancestors came to live in jerusalem in the early 1800s out of a deep sense that as jews, that was their home. Zion is theg for glue that has kept jews together for millennia. For centuries, jews have not only place faith in jerusalem, but they have prayed to return to jerusalem. The alliance next year in jerusalem is hard every year at the passover seder and at the conclusion of yom kippur, day of atonement. Do you know that over half of the 613 commandments in the pentateuch relate to the land of israel and can only be fulfilled in the land of israel . The jewish connection to the land is so strong that for thousands of years, wherever jews have lived, they have prayed for rain in the land of israel, not where they reside. But zionism, this essential component of jewish identity, is now under attack. Those who deny jews the right to selfdetermination, who say jews do not have a right to a jewish state in any borders in the land of israel, their criticism of israel is antisemitic, even if it is cloaked in human rights terminology. Because if you do not believe the jewish state of israel has a right to exist, then your criticism of israel is not intended to reform the policies of the government of israel. It is intended to destroy the jewish state. To accurately identify antisemitism masquerading as antizionism, we must learn to distinguish between the tonphobes, those who seek destroy the jewish state on the one hand, and those who genuinely seek coexistence between jew and arab on the other. Groups like students for justice sportsstine and jewish for pete, those for peace. Are not interested in dialogue or compromise. The goal is elimination. Make no mistake about it, what is happening today on campuses and beyond is part of an organized, wellfunded strategy to marginalize proisrael zionists and deny them a place in society. And students for justice in palestine, an organization supported by american muslims in palestine, held it no national conference, they posted their goals for the conference on their website. One goal described as attitude toward zionism. Goal number two was titled regearing to action. The aim of the theme is to remind us that zionism is not an insurmountable force. We know that zionism is ethnic cleansing, destruction, mass expulsion, apartheid, and death. The goal went on to say that the reason we can have hope is that zionism is a human ideology and a set of laws that have been challenged and can be destroyed. This is a reminder that the successful challenge to zionists have come from direct action. According to sj peapod stated goals, zionism can be broken down and dismantled. However, theyly, explained that at the conference i would not just talk theory, but rather they would also focus on developing actionable local and regional campaigns with clear targets. You, if you are a Student Group that equates zionism with ethnic cleansing, destruction, mass expulsion, apartheid and death, intergroup stated goal is to destroy and dismantle zionism, and you plan to develop actionable local and regional campaigns with clear you, who are your targets . Proisrael zionists. And what do those campaigns look like . They look like what we saw last year at New York University when 53 student organizations, representing the entire progressive meeting on campus pledged not only to support bds and to boycott israel, but to also boycott the proisrael Student Groups on campus, meaning, they said they would not engage with or dialogue with or cosponsor events with the proisrael students. Tot message does that convey proisrael students at in my you . At nyu . It says to that student, if you want to be a fullfledged member and demonstrate with us on climate change, womens rights, lgbt rights, we will accept you, on one condition. Check your support for israel at the door. She had that part of your jewish identity and you can join us. Thats no different than demanding that a student stop observing shabbat or stop keeping kosher in order to gain admission. This comparable to demanding that a catholic student disavow the vatican. Excluding an individual on the basis of his or her identity is discrimination. Iss discriminatory conduct spreading beyond College Campuses. Not long ago, here in washington march izers of a items that express support for pride such as the jewish flag, a rainbow flag with the star of david in the middle of it, were prohibited. The leaders who controlled access to march designed to celebrate diversity and inclusion were demanding that jewish zionists hide or shed a key component of their jewish identity in order to participate. No other group was charged such a high price for admission. Our laws are designed to protect designed to protect individuals from harassment and discrimination. In the United States, even hate speech is protected speech. So if you want to effectively utilize our legal tools, we must accurately articulate what is happening as harassment and discrimination. If we fail to do this, we wont be able to use the tools in our toolbox. If we permit administrators on University Campus and the general public to perceive a situation as merely a political disagreement, where each side takes offense of the other sides position, then we disable our most potent weapon. Marginalizing, and excluding proisrael zionists on the basis of their identity is not a speech issue. It is racist and unlawful conduct and must be confronted as such. Students must understand that but they are experiencing is antisemitism and that the law can protect them. We have to teach students and parents how to utilize the law effectively to combat cyanphobia and antisemitism zionphobia. It is imperative that the public understand that this denial is racist, discriminatory, and antisemitic, whether it comes from nonjews or jews. During our panel discussion, i hope to share steps we are taking to address these issues and change the climate on campus and beyond. We must ensure that history does not repeat itself. We must recognize that if you isolate and dehumanize zionists and claim that they represent societys greatest evil, and you are branding jews with a virtual yellow star of david. And then, what comes next . Thank you. [applause] thank you. My name is william jacobson. Im a professor at Cornell Law School and the founder and chief author at legal insurrection website which is covered campus issues specifically with guard to into semitism and the bds movement almost daily since 2008. Im going to discuss today intersectionality. Its a word that attorney general barr mentioned in his introduction this morning and it is a very hot topic on campuses. Im going to discuss how it was originally formulated, how it has developed into the intellectual justification for the isolation of jewish students on campus and zionists jews in the progressive movement. I only have a short time today so there is a limited amount of detail i can go into, but i will also hope to bring to this presentation my experiences in interacting with students, both on my campus and many other campuses. You have heard two very excellent speeches so far, presentations so far. The big take away that you need from this presentation and the other presentations is the isolation of jewish students on campus. Because that is the goal, that is the methodology and the single biggest problem that we face. The statements that have been made so far can pour with my experiences interacting with students comports with my experiences interacting with students. I began covering the bds movement immediately into thousand eight. It wasnt until the 20102013 timeframe that bds took off in a serious way on campuses. At that time, there werent many major jewish or proisrael organizations on the ground in campuses, so i often serve and my website served as a First Responder to students who were seeking help. Isolation,ense of since they were being ganged up on, that was my big take away from those interactions. The term intersectionality is a very loosely used term nowadays. Its kind of like social justice. Its a buzzword. It has become something of the Swiss Army Knife of progressive campus politics and it is far removed from its origins. It is often described in conservative media as victim olympics, the ordering of victim status based on various identity politics classifications. But thats only a part of it, and thats perhaps more the popular press part of it. Intersectionality provides the intellectual framework and justification for people who would not consider themselves antisemitic or even necessarily seek the destruction of israel, nonetheless to isolate jewish students. Toxic mixture of racial and identity politics where antizionism is the unifying feature among many groups who otherwise have very little in common. It didnt start this way. The term intersectionality is widely credited to a 1989 article by my law school classmate, kimberly crenshaw, who was a law professor at ucla and recently is at columbia. As originally authored, the concept of intersectionality was meant to address the unique problems in her perspective that black women faced in obtaining justice in the judicial system, that the Discrimination Laws addressed discrimination against women and the race Discrimination Laws addressed discrimination against minorities, particularly blacks, but in her estimations, none of those laws and legal analyses whouately addressed people were at the intersection of multiple identities which were suffering. So in her words, she charmed intersectionality as something, as a way of looking at from a judicial and discrimination law perspective, how to better liberate, if you will, black women from those forces of sex discrimination and race discrimination that they uniquely suffered that in her words, black men did not suffer, and white women did not suffer because they did not have that intersecting identity. When you accept this framework or not, theres nothing about intersectionality as originally framed that involves politics or involves israel. It was a way of looking at how the courts deal with discrimination against people who are in multiple classifications of protected groups. Way,long the intersectionality became a buzzword divorced from its original meaning. Critique in the chronicle of Higher Education noted that the word has migrated from womens studies, journals, and conference keynotes into everyday conversation, turning what was once highbrow discourse into chatter. Andere has the expansion politicization of intersectionality been more aggressive and destructive than in the antizionist movement, including the jewish antizionist movement. Andisrael academics activists have seized on intersectionality as a means of building coalitions of people of which isinst israel, pretrade as a white colonialist enterprise with the goal of isolating jews who support israels right to exist, which of course is the overwhelming majority of jews. It is hard to pinpoint precisely when this happened, but certainly the durban conference and the goal of bringing race into the attacks on israel, turning israel into an apartheid state, comparing it to south africa, has turned intersectionality into not just a judicial philosophy or approach, but an approach to demonizing israel and launching the boycott divestment and sanctions movement against israel. You see that terminology used repeatedly by the antiisrael left, antiisrael progressive movement, particularly antiisrael progressive jews on campuses. Jewishary 2016, the voice for peace Student Network issued a statement on intersectionality, which read in part, we are committed to support palestinian struggle against israeli occupation, apartheid, and racism, which is bound up with your analysis of its intersection with the struggle of students of color. Antijewish bigotry is not equivalent to the structural oppression experienced by students of color. This is what you hear every day on campuses. They put together coalitions of students of color, nonwhite Student Groups, and they try to use that to isolate proisrael students and sinus students. We have seen it multiple times at cornell. In 2014, there was a bds resolution introduced to the Student Government which didnt get very far. It was tabled before open discussion, but in 2019, that was renewed, and the organizers spent, by their own estimates a by their own estimation, two years building a coalition of students. When they introduced a resolution, there were 20 or 25 students representing virtually every nonwhite Identity Group on campus who were endorsing the resolution, the boycott resolution against israel, and it was presented that if you want to be supportive of students of color, you must endorse this, and if you object to the bds movement, you are hostile to racial minorities. And thats just one example we are seeing on campuses. There are many others, perhaps we can get into some of those during the discussion. Im certainly happy to speak with people afterwards. Thank you. [applause] do you know how to work this . Perfect. Thank you very much. Members of the various departments of u. S. Government, special envoy, distinguish communal leaders from the Jewish Community, its an honor to be here. To dam going to discuss a Research Project that the institute for the study of global antisemitism and policy, we arent Academic Research into this fell subject an interesting way about seven years ago. Unhappy to be joined by a cpa who was a key figure in the seven year project that we engaged in, follow the money. I worked with michael and our colleagues on this project. Elie weisel said we are living in a great time of urgency. Then he went on to correct himself, we are living in a time of emergency. He said this in 2003. Im 2003 to to this moment, we know that things are becoming significant. He also always taught that antisemitism begins with jews, but it never ends with jews. That once his form of hatred is unleashed upon society, it knows no boundaries and attacks not only the jews, but other parts of the population, other citizens, and a very Democratic Institutions and practices that we hold onto. ,ragically, im sad to report as my colleagues have also referred to, that universities are actually becoming a purveyor of antisemitism. The very institution that is perhaps the most important for the continuation of democratic principles, educating the next generation, is the space in which antisemitism is being purveyed. Us in anect came upon interesting way. One of the Vice President s of the Top Ivy League university apparently worked for a Pharmaceutical Company in cambridge, massachusetts. This Pharmaceutical Company in cambridge, massachusetts was person who wasn not only in favor of the bds, but also had connections to terror. The Vice President of this university actually hired an assistant who works right here in washington with none other than him. For those who studied this issue , we know their connections to politicalism, reactionary islam. That they also had connection to terror. It was these sort of network in this university that not only promoted anticipate semitism and the demonization of the jewish people who are in israel but also promoted political islam within the university. Thanks to this, and i started to do research on my own and then in a few months worked with michael. Michael bass gave a lot of his time and energy. Most of these findings are his. And michael for seven years has combed through various sources of information all open source from the dave of education and other government branches looking at funding. Nd we can see here in this document that u. S. Colleges with middle east studies department are receiving massive am of funding from the gulf states. Whats interesting in our research and the most important flement our Research Since probably missing is there are large corporations in the United States, Domestic Companies in the United States that are funneling lots of money, billions of money into the american universities. And this is a sort of a hole that needs to be understood. Here, this is a very important document. Groups like the middle east forum and other groups researching the funding of u. S. Universities by the Muslim Brotherhood and political islamists have discovered 300 million, some are speaking about 1. 4 million. Our Research Shows that we have accounted for 1. 9 billion going to american universities. And whats fascinating is the undocumented report. The amount that has not been reported. That amount is almost 3 billion that we found. And given our lack of resources, although we tried very hard and we worked diligently, given our limited resources into this project and expeer tease, expertise, if we can find 3 billion unaccounted for, imagine what is going on. Its interesting that texas a m, for example, their budget they did not report over 750 million. And their budget and the funding from qatar always matchup in ichaels research. The Qatari Foundation as we know is run by or heavily influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood, and the memory presentation our colleague from memory, he ran a clip that i was going to run which shows joseph qawadawi literally calling for all true believers to finish the work of hitler. This is where the money is coming from. He played an integral role in founding islamic studies at oxford. Imagine how these ideologies are infiltrating into universities. Here we can see only of the findings here. This is from the university in doha city. Would be affair assumption to show a ton of funding is coming into the United States proper. That this is an extraordinary finding thanks to the work of michael bass. There we go. I would like to very briefly, i know im running out of time, that we i would like to present some other findings. For example, Yale University received a 10 million gift from kamel. La salam he offered publicly 10 million. 100,000 has been reported to Yale University to the department of education. Yale university has only reported approximately 2 million even though they received over 150 million from the world since 1983 to 2018, orry from the middle east. Very quickly, recommendations. We argue vehemently, there needs the an approvement of partment of education from domestic sources and what they should be reporting in general. Inconsistency from the department of education by colleges in foreign operations why did texas a m only begin to report their donations in the last two years . Should colleges accept anonymous gifts . This is legal. The law says the country needs to be shown, the country of origin, the gift needs to be shown but not the source. So its very easy for countries or individuals or nonprofit organizations or governments to use another country as the origin of their gift to american universities. We call upon the government to try to use the ira definition of anticipate semitism to conduct Academic Affairs at the student level, the academic level and at the administration level. We call upon all relevant branches of the government, of all departments with a stake in the future of our Education System and the future of our democracy to engage in a systemic investigation of the funding of american universities by not only anticipate semitic sources but antidemocratic sources. We also call for an investigation into the atmosphere on campus. Were talking about here and the administration, whats taking place from the classroom. We know that the students for justice in palestine, care, the Muslim Student association have been disturbing the atmosphere on campus. Jewish students are experiencing anticipate semitism at much higher rates than women experience or witness sexism than africanamerican experience racism. The statistics are off the chart. And theres a huge discrepancy in age. Older Jewish Americans do not experience antisemitism at the same level as young Jewish Americans. And we believe in closing that the 6. 5 billion that this Research Project through the work of michael bass discovered has to be the tip of an iceberg. And if this is the tip of an iceberg, we call for a proper investigation of american universities and the funding and the funders of hate that is now permeating our most precious institution and our democracy, the Education System. Thank you. [applause] thank you. Thank you to all of our panelists those are extremely thoughtprovoking comments and raises the question at least for me the three sets of question occur to me. One set centers around what is the phenomenon and one set is where did it come from . And the third set, what can be done . Well turn to the first set first. A number of comments focused on antisemitism as filtered through antizionists movements. And mrs. Luen contrasted it with what we think of traditional or classical antisemitism, swastikas, violence, discrimination against jewish students. Re we also seeing that kind of antisemitism . This side of the table could talk about that. But i would love to hear from anyone who has thoughts on whether were seeing that side of the antisemitism to and whether its also on the rise. My experience and observations is that what we typically call rightwing antisemitism, things like that are mostly anecdotal on campuses. There must be a swastica painted, and in most cases we dont know who painted it are s, but those anecdotal. And the other is more systemic, more pervasive more organized and more supported by faculty. A lot of the antizionism on campuses and a lot of the isolations of students on campuses comes under the leadership of faculty and thats just a reality. They are the thought leaders, they are the one who is have a continuing presence on campus. So in my experience, not to say that there havent been specific horrible instances of rightwing antisemitism on campus, but that is not the pervasive problem. It is more the antisemitism masking itself as antizionism that is a pervasive problem in my experience and observation. Id like to i think, you know, an earlier panel touched on the questions of free speech. The problem is that people come to campuses and say offensive things about israel or bad things about jews even. The problem is when such beliefs whether theyre antizionists or b. D. F. Are institutionalized within colleges themselves that takes partly the role of where kirk la and faculty are actively promoting antizionism, actively making jewish students in asses never mind in campus clubs. Its tough to speak truth to power under any circumstances. Its unreasonable to students to speak truth to the power of the people who control their grade. It just doesnt work that way. And it also takes the form of privileging antisemitic agitation in the form of anti semitism on the campus when Student Groups not only enact in b. D. S. Resolutions and in most campuses those resolutions have been defeated. But in the course of discourse where jewish students are served with fake eviction notices to highlight, you know, false claims about israeli practices where Israeli Apartheid weeks and apartheid walls depicting the measures of terrorism are made specifically to make jewish students uncomfortable, to make it to make it impossible for them to speak up for israel and to retain their standing on campus as people of good will. Thats the problem where universities prioritize and allow these events to go forward in a way in which they would not allow other Student Groups to be victimized in this way. Thats the problem. Not speech. Just to build on that too, the initiative, they actually did a study at one point. And while, yes, there is certainly the more traditional antisemitism on campus, what you find is that what rezz nates resonates what impacts the students the most where they feel the marginalization the hostility and the isolation is more in the antizionism context. Nd whats happening as i was trying to explain is that you have students this is a part for them to be jewish. What theyre being told if you want to be accepted or function on this campus, you have to either hide or shed that part of who you are. And i mean, you could people have an easier time understanding it if you, for example, had a university which created a climate where homosexuals felt uncomfortable because they felt they were be isolated, marinalalized, ostrasized. Thats what you have with zionists on campus. They feel like they cant live in their own skin. Sorry. I just wanted to comment. Im backing up what tammy benjamins Research Demonstrates and now our Research Project augments and reinforcing your research is that we found funding from middle east studies centers at american universities where that is taking place and where this type of funding that we alluded to here or mentioned here takes place that where the students for justice of palestine there is more antisemitic activity on campus affecting students and scholars. I think we also have to realize that the pressure on not just students not just students finishing degrees or ph. D. s or faculty entering into the university and trying to get permanent position and then tenure, theres tremendous pressure not to be perceived as too zionists or too proisrael because of the atmosphere on campus. And we call this sort of the redgreen alliance, the extremed socalled left. The left has abandoned a left wing agenda but well put that issue aside. But the extreme glean, the islam ists have sort of entered into this antisemitic and unholy alliance. Theyre both opposed to western hegemony. Theyre both opposed to zionist and neo colonialism thats the rhetoric of this. And theyre opposed to Everything Else in this world view. They are united in their antisemitism and antizionism. And this gives cover for a lot of difficult situations, atmospheres on campus and a whole generation learning at the best universities that israel is somewhat somehow at the very least a problem to something that needs to either be reformed or even destroyed. And this is mainstream education, which is fueling general antisemitism. And what are you seeing in terms of patterns an prevalence in terms of geography in terms of kinds of schools . Is it small liberal arts schools . If you were a parent for example who wanted to send your child to attend a university where they were less likely to face antisemitism what would you be looking for . I would say that what i tell my students that im jewish because my mothers jewish. But when we live in a demock circumstances every generation has to stand up and protect democracy but expand its influence. I would say its not a question of finding a safe school. I think its a question for all the communities who care about human rights, the rights of jews, the rights of women, the rights of jerneded identity ople, christians, kopps, yeznis, kerds. I think we as a generation and as a society need to protect our Education System because if we lose it, were in serious trouble. The frightening fact is that this is not restricted to certain types of universities. And its not restricted to just universities. The dehumanizing of zionists now is a is becoming mainstreamed and it is it may have started and we may see it really egregiously on the campuses but its moving beyond. We now see it in our daily lives outside of campuses. Yeah, i would like to add that, theres no way to restrict this to one kind certainly theres a lot of antizionists activity at my alma mater, columbia. You can note other libra arts schools where thats true. Studies aredle east taught those have become the bailey wick of antizionists who spread these false ideas about jews and about israel. And thats really tough to combat. It gets to the point i think all of us on this panel are asked, how do we prepare young jews to face this kind of dilemma . And they have to know the facts. They have know what are myths, what are wrongs . They have to be armed with information. But the truth is when faced with this kind of information, we have to start with one one quality that would resonate for those who grew up in the era of the soviet Union Movement and that is the courage to speak up. Thats the hardest thing. Its hard for people in general society. Its hard for those of us who even do this for a living. But its really hard for students. And yet that is those are the qualities that i think those of us who are involved in this fight have to model and quite frankly, its the message that the United States government, the department of justice and every has to send out that you have to have the courage to speak up for what is right and against hateful stereotype that seem to target jews. Im going to build on that maybe goes to your third question, which is one of the things that were dick at the brandice center is we are training our law students because we realize that our under graduates not only do you need to know the history and the information, but you need to understand your legal rights. And undergraduates dont know their legal rights and they dont call lawyers. What we decided to do is train law students to be able to work with the undergraduates to give them that confidence, to give them that courage to speak up and we created a curriculum that gives them the First Amendment law. It gives them information about Academic Freedom and title 6 of the civil ithes act. And we call it the guiding student activists worldwide. Thats what we do on the student end to help the undergraduates have that confidence and then give them the ability to articulate and describe whats happening and how the discrimination is taking place so we can use the legal tools we have. And were on the administrative side putting together guidelines to the University Administrators explaining to them so they can understand and see whats happening on campuses so they can understand this is an attack on zionists not jews but zionists and how this is isolated zionists and denying them a place in society. We are putting together steps to try to address the situation. And one of the first things that i think they could do is there was in the lawsuit that was brought against San FranciscoState University by the law fair project they settled the case. One of the first items in the settlement is a require dwhrament the University Issue a statement recognizing that zionism is the key part of the identity of many of their students on their campus. The truth is all universities ought to be issuing that kind of statement in order to give the confidence and the courage to the students on campus to know that they can express that part of their identity. That the unit supports them in expressing that part of the identity and they shouldnt feel intimidated or that they have to hide or shed that part of who they are. Yeah, i think the question was where is this most prevalent . Im not sure theres any identifying scene. But it certainly is true that many, most of the activity takes place at a relatively small number of elite institutions. So thats the good news. Were talking about were not talking about out of whatever the 2,000 institutions of Higher Education. Were not talking about 1900 where this is a problem. But where there is a problem tend to be the elite ones which forms our opinion shapers and have them get reported in the New York Times, get reported in the washington post, have an outside influence on the greater culture and just running through the list of jewish voice for priests students groups who signed that 2016 statement on intersectionality essentially saying that jews dont get to participate in that. Columbia, vasser, wisconsin, wesleyan, berkley, clairmont, la, u chicago, u michigan at ann arbor and illinois, urbana. These are elite institutions and thats been my experience and its worse and in terms of where youre going to send your children, i get that question all the time. I think you need to look into it and you need to investigate the Campus Culture and you need to see how the administration has reacted to things. And you need to understand that because if youre going to send our child to a small 2,000 student school, which is, you know, taken by antiseal fervor, theres not a lot of support systems there and theres not a lot of systems to find their own space. Whereas if you send them to a larger institution there may be other communities. I think you need to do your Research Just like you would do the research on which school has the best Chemistry Department or anything else. Its amazing how much time people will spend going over those things but wont look into the culture as it relates to whether a jewish student can express his or her identity on campus. So do your research, but clearly there are some more problematic campuses than others. I just want to i agree with everything. But also i think we should have to take note that the the public and intellectual discourse even now in the United States has shifted. Antisemitic controversy that were nce troves that unimagineable that would be gracing the media of record or even in our most important institutions, that they are now being discussed on a regular basis. The fact that the Public Discourse has shifted so much in such a short period of time reflects on the issues ofer education what people are learning in universities and the threat that we now face in the universities and now even in our institutions of government and in the public debate and the media of record. I just came from the united kingdom. There are several years, i think ahead of us. But the situation is grave in the u. K. Its teetering on perhaps a momentous decision in the next six to eight months about a new Prime Minister that is having these views in the redgreen alliance on his understanding of what israel is and what the jewish people are and what zionists are. Its alive and well in an old, important democracy. And that rhetoric is here. And that should serve as a tremendous warning to all of us in this room. Several people brought up the conflict of administrators and what administrators should be doing to address this problem. Its not i think and all together intuitive or easy question because were in a place where we think robust discussion on campus and Academic Freedom are important values, right . We dont have hate speech barring insightment to violence. We dont have hate speech laws in our country. Some and in public universities administrators are state actors. So there are First Amendment issueses. In private universities thats not true. So how should an administration be deft in addressing these problems . Is it by being a speaker in the debate . Is it by being a regulator of speech, of conduct . What is working and what is not working . I think what doesnt work is when University Administrators assume a stance of neutrality about hate speech directed at jews on their campuses. That has happened all too often. We go back a decade to what happened at the university of california in irvine which is a much discussed case, the brandice institute did a lot of good work on it. But the message that came through was that the university washed its hands of incidents that ended to violence against jews. Sadly, the administration at the time similarly washed its hands of the issue and wouldnt prosecute or wouldnt take it seriously. You have to be it cannot, you know, were not asking them to suppress the speech of those with whom we disagree. Were asking them to speak up on discrimination on any other group. And say this is not what or University Stands for. This is appear posed to free inquiry. And if they fail to do that, then its just a green light for things to escalate and thats why we talk about instances where jewish students feel shunned, silenced. It starts from the leadership. I think thats right. The key is that the university has to start condemning antisemitic incidents and speech the way they would condemn racist speech. Not shut it down. If you were to have a major demonstration in the Public Square or you have a major demonstration on campus and it is filled with the most vial racist antisemitic rhetoric, whats the difference legally . If it takes place in the Public Square the public has no obligation to say anything about the nature of our speech. Thats one of the beauties of our First Amendment and it doesnt matter whether its racist, you can say it. If it happens on the University Campus, title 6 does put certain requirements on the universities. They cant ignore it. And the problem were seeing day is theyll condemn the racist speech but not the antisemitic speech. Theyre having a problem getting around what is antisemitic when it comes to antizionism. T doesnt have to be so compli cated. Ziona phobia is antisemitic and that needs to be condemned thats what you need to teach and educate the administrators because once that gets condemn on campus the way racist speech is condemned on campus, your zionists will feel a little bit more protected. The first ale, is essential and we shouldnt be squashing freedom of expression. But just by a show of hands, how many people here ever read katub berbenah . A few. Brotherhood. Muslim we have to educate ourselves and become fluent and literate on the mind of our enemy and whats at stake. The Muslim Brotherhood and im choosing my words very carefully took the protocols of the elders of zion, they took antisemitism hich is a european phenomenon. Its genocidal and emanates from europe. It was imported by various processes that i wont go into. Donted by the muslim brother adopted by the Muslim Brotherhood. They fused it with european antisemitism and created this sort of reactionary social movement. It advocates the extermination of the jews. It takes the protocols of the elders of zion, the most per knickses form of antisemitism. Ts not the military wing or the extremists. This is at the core of their ideology. So if were going to confront it, we have to become fluent in this ideology and understand how to confront it. The Founding Fathers of this generation like jefferson warned that the citizens need to be educated to protect the democracy. And i think this is very much a threat to our democratic principles and not just to the Jewish Community in our campus. In terms of the question about whether what role should administrators play, i certainly dont think they should be the regulators of speech. All i think we should be demanding and it seems to be a ot for administrators is equal treatment and equal enforcement of whatever rules and regulations they have. You could make the argument that a private institution should be able to regulate student speech and many institutions have speech codes. Whether youre for that or youre against that is one issue. But if you are going to have those codes, they should be enforced, not they should they should be enforced not just against people who engage in what would be termed racist speech or homophobic speech but antisemitic speech. You could make the argument that they shouldnt have that but they do. The problem is having made a decision to have that sort of regulation of speech in conduct, it is not equally and fairly enforced. And thats where i think the focus needs to be because i would argue that the administration in a more ideal world should do nothing than preserve the free marketplace for ideas on campus and the free marketplace for speech. One of the biggest problems we have is almost any israeli speaker is going to get disrupted and shouted down on a u. S. Campus. And many proisrael speakers would get shouted down and disrupted. And the schools need to preserve the ability of proisrael students to get their speakerss on campus and have their codes the preventing others from speaking. So, i think that in a better world, we would have administrators have fewer regulations not more. T to the extent they do have regulations, enforcement equally. I think we need to educate the administrators to be able to distinguish between the groups hat genuinely want coexistence. So the dialogue that needs to be encouraged that you see the israelis engaging in all the time, the dialogue about the actual policies, not the demonization of the zionists. Zionaphobic. Once you can make that distinction then you can encourage constructive dialogue on campus as opposed to the type of speech that may be taking place that is antisemitic and that just seeks to ostrasize and isolate the zionists. Why now . Why is there a particular problem now . I understand that part of what people have said is that there are organized efforts whether through funding or a particular antizionists movements that are pushing certain ideologies or actions, is there a reason its happening now . Is that due to Current Events and current policies or the ate of reline of scrimmage yossity . I think its bigger than campuses. Its bigger than whats going on in this country. Were talking about a rising tide of antisemitism that is sweeping over the globe. We are some 74 years since tend of world war ii, the holocaust. Its memory has dimmed clearly in europe and elsewhere, things that were unimaginable a few decades ago are now imagineable. And as we said things that were not part of the dialogue, things that you would never expect to see in the New York Times just 20 years ago, you see theyre on a regular basis. Arguments. Things are debatable that didnt used to be debatable. And part of it is this complex virus, the great collar ruth weijs spoke of antisemitism being the most successful ideology because it had more and attached itself to a number of ideology, fascism, communism and nad subsidyism and radical islam. Now, were in a moment where radical islam is spreading. Theres this Strange Alliance especially in europe between radical islamists and left wing elites who both share a hatred for israel and create an mosphere in which jews are marginalized. Forge natsly, we live in a country where thats not mainstream dialogue. But the one place where it is mainstream is on College Campuses. If i could just pick up briefly what jonathan said and its very important. I think like the totalitarian movements of the past where the jew was the quintessential boogieman or the other. And the focus is to be put on the jew on their businesses practice, how they stick together, their culture, their race. While the totalitarians tried to take over and dominate society. So political islam is doing the same thing. Its focusing on the israelis, focusing on the zionist, smoking on the jew. And while everybody is look over here and is afraid to speak out against it which is problematic in and of itself, look at whats happening in the world. You could make an argument that contemporary antisemitisms greatest victim is muslims in the middle east who engage in horrible conflicts throughout the region. Everybody focuses on netanyahu nd the jews, and were not focused on the real life disaster as we speak. They use the jews as a scapegoat while there are very serious issues to be addressed. I think the issue of why does it seem to be getting worse on campuses does have to do in part with our domestic political ituation where anticonservative, antirepublican and antitrump politics on campuses has come to dominate. And the issue of support for israel has gotten intertwined with that. I think theres no denying that. And certainly among the student activists groups, those two have become intertwined. So if you want to bring everybody together on campus, you combine antiisrael politics with antitrump politics, and you automatically have a coalition of, you know, a large percentage of the student activists groups. And i think theres something to that whether thats ack rats, justified as a different discussion. But i think that is a phenomenon thats going on on the campuses where antitrump politics has antiisraeloited by groups as a coalition. I do think it seems to be accelerating in the past couple of years. I do think that this is the reason why it is now, is that this is the reason of the modern evolution of the worlds oldest hatred of antisemitism. Owen cutler said it sought to deny the jew. This new antisemitism is seeking to deny the jewish collective, the state of israel, its place in the society of nation. He put it really well. He was talking about the way antisemitism work is that it works is that it turns the symbol and everybody here has been saying, that at that point it definds as the most loathsome qualities. So he says under christianity and before the holocaust, the jew was the christ killer. During the nazis, the jew was the race poll luter for, you know, for the jew. Under communist, the jew is the capitalist. What do we see today . We live in a civilization and this is jesses quote. The most loathsome qualities are apartheid. And the greatest defender in the world today with all the beautiful countries in the world is the jewish state and thats why we have whats happening now today. Id like to i was hoping to have a slightly more a higher note than that. [laughter] but maybe the higher note to end on is that there are smart people who are thinking about this and engaged in the problem. And that it is not going unseen. So i would like to thank all of our panelists for being here today. 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