…Right now everyone from the President of the United States to the Mayor of New York to the State of Israel is calling campus protesters antisemitic. Countless publications are drumming up fear that Jewish students are under threat at Columbia University in particular, and that the student protesters themselves are being rabid antisemites. Every accusation of this nature is accompanied by no evidence, but the accusations continue to echo through the channels of the powerful. The establishment is scared of this new wave of student protest — and of the way it’s spreading like wildfire from campus to campus. What sparked this rapid growth of Gaza solidarity encampments across the country was the utterly uncalled for and violent crackdown that Columbia ushered in upon their own students by calling the NYPD onto their campus to arrest protesters peacefully encamped at the school. The cops arrested dozens of Jewish students in addition to their Muslim, Christian, and atheist peers…

Source: Being afraid does not mean you’re under attack