To help the public understand how the climate on many university campuses has worsened, Dr. Zachary Marschall, Editor in Chief of Campus Reform, appeared this week on The National News Desk.
When considering antisemitism, location is important, Marschall said.
"The geographical concentration is something I think all Americans need to understand. We are seeing the majority of these incidents that happened last year happened in California, New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey. This is not a coincidence. There are values and there are practices at these elite universities around who they hire and who runs the school that enables student protesters.”
Campus antisemitism is not as strong in many other parts of the country.
“These are not the same values we see at southern colleges or at big commuter or state universities in the middle of the country, so this is really something that could have been predicted because of what is being taught at these (elite) universities,” Marschall said.
Marschall has previously told AFN about how both he and his team have traveled to see these antisemitic activities firsthand.
He tells The National News Desk he thinks students are trying to quote, "push the envelope as much as they can.”
“We have seen three attacks on students alone at University of Michigan in the first month back to school as well as a Jewish group held at gunpoint last week. This is representative of what we have, we're seeing across the country, which is that it's more individual. It is smaller base. I think they're trying to figure out what they can do because since the tent encampments, we have seen universities come out with bans against these types of protests, against neutrality policies."
Some institutions have stopped allowing students to wear masks at these demonstrations, banned tent encampments, and controlled how long students can protest.”
He thinks this will make a small difference.
Jewish students flee through tunnel
Marschall pointed to one of his team's reports from UC Berkeley. It shows video of what he described as a mob of students trying to smash down a glass door because there were a bunch of Jewish students inside holding a Jewish event.
“It was about the religion and not about Israel (policies), yet the Jewish students had to escape underneath the building through a tunnel for safety. That is just showing the reality that so many Jewish students have lived with, and why I've unfortunately had to speak with so many Jewish students who have been on the verge of tears talking about the fear they feel if the wrong people on campus find out they're Jewish."