Antisemitism is abhorrent and universities must eradicate it on campuses. The Trump administration is using federal funding threats, freezes, revocations and multimillion-dollar settlement demands, including a $1 billion demand at UCLA, to push colleges to address antisemitism. Those unprecedented penalties have prompted many Black people connected to predominantly white institutions to ask why anti-Black harms receive less federal attention. Black students and employees have long faced racial slurs, spray-painted N-words, nooses hung on dorms and cultural centers, death threats against leaders, physical assaults, white supremacist targeting, racial profiling by campus security, and racist Greek-life practices. These encounters are long-standing, persistent and pervasive.
The Trump administration is pushing colleges and universities to address antisemitism by threatening, freezing and revoking federal funding and demanding millions of dollars to settle allegations or in UCLA's case, $1 billion. These unprecedented federal penalties, which the government claims are partially for failing to address antisemitism, leave lots of Black people who either attended or worked at predominantly white institutions asking, What about us?
Reports of antisemitism sound familiar to Black people who have encountered anti-Black harassment in similar forms. Nooses, death threats Generations of Black collegians and employees have been called racial slurs on campuses. The N-word also has been spray-painted and nooses have been hung on Black students' dorms, on Black culture centers and on portraits and statues of influential Black people across campuses.
Student body presidents who are Black, as well as other Black student organization leaders and employees, have received death threats. One social media post promised: I'm going to stand my ground tomorrow and shoot every black person I see. Black people have been physically assaulted on campus grounds; been threatened and targeted by white supremacist hate groups who gain access to campuses; and been racially profiled by campus security personnel. Black campus police officers have reported experiencing unbearable racism themselves.
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