Samantha Levy, a sophomore at the University of Illinois describes one such experience while at an interfaith dinner with one another Jewish student and dozens of Muslim students.“We sit down, and I ask the girls, ‘can I sit here?’ and they’re like, ‘yeah, yeah, yeah.’ The men were praying, and when they get back from praying, one guy comes up to the table and sees I’m wearing my Jewish star, because, come on, it’s not coming off,” she asserted. “He looks at me and looks at the [Muslim] girl and then he says, ‘you know you’re sitting with a Jew?’”The Muslim girl responded in the affirmative.“And then he said, ‘I won’t sit with a Jew.’ And then he takes his backpack and leaves,” Levy recalled. “It was during Islamic Awareness Week, and I felt very aware,” she joked.
Finding the right School in the Age of Campus Anti-Zionism
