Larry Diamond and Jeffrey Koseff with Larry Mantle | "It's in the air": Antisemitism and anti-Israel bias on college campuses, and how to address it.

America at a Crossroads

The severe uptick in antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents on college
campuses since the October 7 Hamas massacre in Israel has been widely
documented. In late 2023, Stanford University’s President appointed our
America at a Crossroads guests, Larry Diamond, a senior fellow both at
Stanford’s Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for
International Studies and Professor Jeffrey Kosseff, to co-chair a
Committee to study antisemitism and anti-Israel bias on campus. The
Committee conducted more than 50 different listening sessions and as
many individual interviews; hundreds of undergraduates, graduate
students, faculty, staff, alumni, and parents participated. The Committee
issued a Report that they found widespread and pernicious antisemitism as
well as a failure on the part of the University to respond to complaints. This
program reviews the findings contained in the Stanford Report and the
speakers discuss similar findings on other campuses. A key element of the
Committee’s work was to make recommendations as to what must be done
to address this serious and growing problem.