The school has been plagued with antisemitic incidents since Hamas’ massacre across Israel on Oct. 7, which triggered a global wave of antisemitism. Just over ten days after the terror onslaught, a male OSU student spit on another student buying a bracelet that said, “I stand with Israel.” The next month, two female students were let into the campus Hillel, where they screamed “f*** you” and “free Palestine,” and two men assaulted students, suspecting that they were Jewish. One of the students, The Lantern added, was hospitalized. In Dec., fraternity members of Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi), a predominantly Jewish Greek Life organization, reported that a small group of people screaming “Jewish bastards” pelted bottles at their house.
Finding the right School in the Age of Campus Anti-Zionism