Anti-Semitism on Campus Has Parents and Students Reconsidering College Choices
“These kind of protests and hateful actions and violence would not be happening on college campuses if they were not allowed to be.”
This issue has the potential to change the landscape of higher education.
FOX News reports:
Campus antisemitism has parents, students reconsidering college choices
A surge of antisemitic acts on college campuses across the United States is prompting some parents and students to rethink their higher education plans, according to an educational expert.
“This problem stems from the top of a university,” Jennifer Brozost, co-founder of the Private Education Advisory Service, told Fox News. “These kind of protests and hateful actions and violence would not be happening on college campuses if they were not allowed to be.”
“Parents and kids are taking note, and they’re watching,” she added.
Antisemitic incidents surged more than 300% in the month following Hamas’ attack on Israel, according to a recent Anti-Defamation League survey. There were 124 incidents recorded on college campuses between Oct. 7 and Nov. 7, according to the ADL, compared to just 12 during the same period last year.
Brandy Shufutinsky, an educational consultant and mother of four, said her Black, Jewish family has “completely reevaluated” where their two school-aged children will eventually attend college.
“The idea that I would send my 14-year-old to any university where he’s going to knowingly encounter antisemitism or be targeted or be forced to stay behind locked doors in a cafeteria because there’s a lynch mob outside targeting him is abhorrent and ridiculous,” Shufutinsky said. “I’m not sending my child to college to be lynched.”
Hamas’ attack coincided with early decision college applications for many students, Brozost said, but now she’s hearing from many families who are waiting to commit to schools as they evaluate how safe they will be for Jewish students. Some students are even considering a gap year, she said.
“They’re saying, ‘No. I’m not just waiting and seeing a couple months. I want to see real change,'” Brozost said. Her company PEAS helps parents navigate the admissions process.
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If you’re an American teenager and you are contemplating attending college in the U.S., then you’re an idiot. And lazy. And really just pathetic. Sorry it’s just reality. Especially if you have an ounce of self-respect. Especially if you’re Jewish or Christian or Muslim or Hindu or Baha’i or atheist.
Seriously.
You have a million better options.
Seriously.
What if you want to be some form of biologist (careers range from the endless study fields of zoology to researching the medicines you wish got manufactured in the United States instead of China) or a chemist? Or what if you wish to pursue a career in nuclear energy? Navy does not have unlimited slots for nuke school.
Are you suggesting that if an American Teen wants a career that requires a college education it should be a pre-requisite to learn Hungarian? Or are you just suggesting science, law, and other essential fields of society should be yielded permanently to the left (how has that gone so far? Has yielding the culture been a runaway success or a smashing failure we need to reverse?).
You do you. No problems.
In the meantime, you may wish to remind yourself that Life is what happens whilst you’re making other plans.
Good luck.
Like most comments section blowhards, left and right, Lancelot just spews hyperbolic vitriol, e.g. if you go to college you’re an “idiot” and “pathetic.”
Notice when you challenge his juvenile nonsense with honest, substantive questions he responds with silly cliches.
Another top notch LI scholar to go with gonzo who, when not worshiping Trump, wants to send black people back to Africa, and John Smith who wants to nuke Muslims.
Who’s spewing hate and venom now?
Do you actually have an intelligent retort to my comment?
When I was at Oberlin it was slightly over 50% Jewish. I wonder how long they would stay in business were it to go to 0% Jewish. From what I have seen in the Alumni stuff they still send me, they are alredy scraping along the bottom of the AA bucket to fill seats. And I hear that their discretionary tuition bucket took a big hit recently.
A lot of schools that were 25%+ Jewish are considerably less than that now. That is in part due to demographics (fewer non-Orthodox Jewish applicants and more very able Asian ones) but also Jew-hating DIE people influencing the admissions process – Jews are over-represented so they have to be knocked down for “equity”.
There is one other factor – compared to 30+ years ago, a lot more Jews live outside of the Northeast and California. So now you have large Jewish presence at schools like the University of Florida and University of Arizona, to name two.
I saw the roots of that in law school in the late 70s. If you pointed out the implications of what a small but growing group of people were saying, you were denounced in certain circles as racist. Now that circle is much wider, and people are no longer saying things that merely imply, the result, they are outright advocating the result.
I am amused that my local “Little Ivy” has been so quiet on this one vs usually so eager to “me too” protest the prog-cause of the moment — “We think right, too, and we do, to matter, just like those real schools,” Some low-key “imperialism” and “occupation” statements, but no protests, riots, physical tribe-bashing, vandalism, and so on.
A huge chunk of this particular U’s student body are Jewish Americans of aspirational caste, many paying full freight. Or, rather, their parents are. The U’s admin seems to have drawn the line at driving away too many paying customers.
Almost all Jews contemplating options for after high school are direct descendants of grandparents or great grandparents who had the self respect and the moxie and the good common sense to walk away (or get on a steamer and float away) from where they were. To get to America.
It’s not your fault. It’s just your turn.
You don’t have to pay these places to disrespect you. They’ll disrespect you for free.
Meanwhile, become fluent in Spanish or Japanese or Korean or Hungarian or Hebrew. Start online. Eventually within several months or a year you go overseas — volunteer or work as an au pair or waiting tables or teach ESL
In a few years you’ll have life-options that you never could have imagined.
And if it all proves too, too much for you then you can always choose any of several overpriced American colleges in any ol American college town, with the pseudo intellectuals and drunken frat parties and their very well paid CRT DEI admins
Reminder #1 College costs far less money outside the USA almost everywhere. Don’t believe me? Do your own internet browsing , it’s really quite striking. (Gee, I wonder why your high guidance counselor never mentioned this option.)
Reminder #2 They turn out some pretty good engineers and biologists and pharmacologists from places like Japan and Israel and Latin America and Hungary and Korea and Switzerland etc
After considering several options, my grandson applied and was accepted in a Masters program @ U. of Dublin after due consideration to several top notch universities. Price point, experience and exposure in a program providing both class, field and internship over a period of 18 months. The exposure in a ‘foreign English’ speaking country is exceeding his expectations as well as making connections with co-students who will be life time connections in a shared goals for post-grad studies.
1. Kudos to your grandson and his parents.
2. AMERICA’S COLLEGES DO NOT WANT ANYONE TO LOOK OUTSIDE AMERICA FOR COLLEGE!!! Duh. It really is almost unbelievable how much money you can save, especially if you learn the native tongue. Spend some time on the internet, the countries vary w.r.t. the particulars.
3. Plenty of foreigners come to the U.S. with incomplete English fluency. They become proficient during their .(American) college career, maybe it takes extra time to get the degree – so what. And then they go from there.
4. Btw — Plenty of mentally retarded people are fully bilingual. Literally. It’s not thaaaat difficult. You just have to be patient. And persistent. And grownup about it.
And you can begin to learn , really learn, your second language while you’re still in K-12.
If anybody believes that success in America in the years ahead will depend on whether you graduated from, e.g., Colby or Harvard or Colgate or Penn or Claremont or Stanford or Bowdoin or Amherst or Mich or XYZ … I just think you’re choosing to live in a deluded past. That no longer exists.
Today (Sunday) at 1:00 Eastern time. Hear about Reichman University in Israel. Classes are taught in English. Prices lower than in the US.
https://thejmg.co.il/idc/2023/infoSession/09/?website=Google&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA9ourBhAVEiwA3L5RFozk-ladXSdxi-I30JB5pDkbNTCFQlpWV1DpIfu3jQA3ea-P76wBRBoCnTsQAvD_BwE
http://Www.Thejpmg.co.il. This is the regular website address.
or you could go to a good vo tech school … or get an internship or
apprenticeship learn a good paying trade
What??!? And you mean work? Actually work? Do WORK??
You mean learn real employable skills?
And then maybe go out on my own, like, in my own small business?
Geeee who’d’a thunk such a thing possible
Two alternatives to all secular universities would be Yeshivah University (the College for men and Stern for women) or Touro. Also some Christian colleges may be welcoming. Here I’m thinking specifically of Hillsdale College.
It will be interesting to see how welcoming the University of Austin will be to Jewish students. One would expect that they ethos of free exchange of ideas would make extreme hate and prejudice difficult to infect the new institution.
WHY should Jewish students have to only go to certain Colleges because of the fear of violence from antisemitic, ignorant students ? They are paying the Tuition, and they deserve to be able to go to the College of their choice without worrying about protests or violence toward them. This is NOT Nazi Germany and the students that ARE antisemitic need to be REPROGRAMMED to change their opinions. The Jewish people have been treated very poorly by the rest of the world, and it’s about time that is stopped. Those people have done SO much to help mankind in so many ways, that they need to be appreciated, NOT punished.
If your comment is intended as a tease or a taunt for the sake of a prank, fine.
If your comment is at all sincere, then you’re willfully blind or incredibly naive.
Nobody in America is going to reprogram anybody.
If Amerucan teens and their families want to pay tens of thousands of dollars be subjected to overt and covert ostracism and bullying as part of the college experience … that’s pathetic.
It’s also unfair and demeaning to your kid.
If the gas station/hair salon/restaurant down the block treats you badly, you stop giving them your business.
What part of this is complicated? None of it— just the natural human desire to really, really, really wish that what is happening all around (“Gas the Jews” etc) is not in fact really happening.
Well it IS happening and history shows over and over again that this stuff doesn’t get better before it gets worse. You don’t want to accept reality? OK.