Jewish students, know that you are now in the “Free Palestine!” period. There’s no escaping the milieu and negative atmosphere that those words—and the anti-Israel actions behind them—have created for you. This is your challenging moment.

Most of you are certainly attempting to find solutions that will allow you to be free of the riots and vitriol associated with this now two-year-old university-wide campaign.

You deserve your rights, you deserve to be protected, and you, too, deserve to be free. Free to study and learn, and free to be as Jewish as you wish.

However, as we have witnessed this past decade and certainly since the 2023-24 academic year, Jew-hate has been emboldened. It is not just about Israel and Zionism; it is a mutated strain of Judeophobia .

I recently read a book

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