In the face of anti-Zionism, what does Jewish courage look like on today’s college campus? An undergraduate journalist at Princeton calls out the politicized and weaponized abuse of Title IX to limit freedom of the press and speech after receiving a university “no communication” order for covering a Committee on Palestine protest. A journalism and political science major at Northwestern takes action when free speech is stifled at The Daily Northwestern, where he is a writer. A Georgetown student studying English and Film Studies partners with a renowned professor on a film project poised to counter the anti-Semitism pervasive on social media by promoting Jewish confidence.
These were some of the events we discussed last month when Alan Rubenstein, director of Tikvah’s University Programs, sat down with three Tikvah students on campus for a serious discussion about the obstacles they have faced as pro-Israel Jews and their courage in the face of these challenges. Many parents in our Jewish Parents Forum have students on campus or students that will soon be arriving on campus, and we hope you find this discussion both enlightening and encouraging.