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Are your child and you ready for the new anti-Israel/anti-Semitic campus reality?

While there has been unprecedented campus hostility toward Israel since October 7, 2023, the tactics and encampments that have taken place are new only in their audacity and scope. As one will discover in this website, the anti-Israel radicalization of today’s campuses has been years in the making with not just the Students for Justice in Palestine spearheading the movement. Faculty, particularly in Middle East and gender studies, have fanned the flames of anti-Israel hostility, campus progressive groups, no matter how high minded, have bought into the anti-Israel philosophy in a showing of “intersectional” solidarity, and school administrators have turned a blind eye to the way in which Jewish students on campus have been marginalized, mistreated and subjected to anti-Zionist litmus tests. 

The Jewish College Exchange–with more than 110,000 visits–is a free, interactive resource for prospective Jewish college students and their parents, with profiles of more than 125 of the colleges most popular with Jewish students . The site has been regularly updated through the tumultuous spring of 2024, and chronicles the growing anti-Israel environment that had infiltrated college campuses long before October 7, 2023, the anti-Semitism that frequently emerged from such an environment and the marginalization of Jewish students who wished to engage in progressive pursuits but were prevented from doing so due to their pro-Israel values. Learn more by clicking on the informative buttons provided above.

Now that the anti-Jewish hostility on campus has been laid bare, the prognostic value of this site as a wake up call to the Jewish community has been satisfied, and continued day to day reports of anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic occurrences on campus will only underline the obvious. As a result, updating has ended with the beginning of the fall 2024 academic year. However, the site retains its importance as both a valuable tool for learning about colleges of interest as well as a reminder of what can happen when the Jewish community fails to take stock of uncomfortable truths such as the challenges Jewish students faced long before October 7, 2023.