JERUSALEM, Israel – It’s been widely documented that anti-Semitic incidents across North America dramatically increased following the October 7th Hamas attacks. Many of these acts are taking place across major university campuses, and a number of students from big name schools are fighting back.
Their decision brought them to Israel to join a “Take Action for Israel” mission.
Right now, if you’re a student in support of Israel on a U.S. campus, you’re in the minority, and you may even be in for a fight.
Knesset member and former United Nations Ambassador Danny Danon met with the students at the Knesset, and encouraged them to develop strategies on how to fight anti-Semitic propaganda on campus.
“We are fighting the same fight, we are fighting evil. Today it’s very hard to be supportive of Israel on US campuses. Anti-semitism is on the rise. We saw Palestinian demonstrations. Violent.”
The students described some of what they had witnessed.
Cornell University student Ethan Olimer told CBN News, “The university got a lot more tense after October 7th. There were protest rallies from the Palestinian side, and emails by the President that originally weren’t so positive towards us.”
Thea Libin, from Canada’s Calgary University noted, “Shortly after the
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