The immediate trigger for the change is of course the post-Oct. 7 wave of very public antisemitism posing as 'pro-Palestine' activism, but that madness follows a generation-long abandonment of campus commitments to free speech and other fundamentals of the enlightenment project.
StopAntisemitism evaluates 25 different colleges each year for how effectively they address antisemitism, issuing letter grades based on their performance. Its 2024 report found that 72% of Jewish students feel unwelcome in certain spaces on campus simply for being Jewish, and 52% had personally been victims of antisemitism at their schools.
Clemson and the University of Mississippi won A's - suggesting that red states are now the ones where 'hate has no home.' On the free-speech front, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression ranks over 200 schools based on their friendliness toward free expression. Cornell is ranked No. 215 out of 251, Brown is at 229, and Columbia at 250.
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