Young Jewish Americans rocked by new hate fueled by Israel-Palestinian conflict
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Jewish students are facing violence and abuse many have not encountered before in the wake of this month’s fighting between Israel and Hamas.
The young Gen Z Americans are confronting hate both in person and online in ways that have surprised and alarmed them, according to organizations that help Jewish Americans and monitor anti-Semitism.
“I think the tsunami of it was what was most surprising the rapid escalation and the vitriol of it,” said Merav Fine Braun, the Hunter College executive director of Hillel, an international Jewish campus organization. “Students, and I certainly, did not expect that.”
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