A Definitive List of Things That Are Antisemitic and Not Antisemitic on College Campuses

Hope this clears it up

• Protesting on a campus to oppose a war, to stand in solidarity with the civilians of Gaza, and to call for transparency in university financial holdings.

  • NOT ANTISEMITIC!

• Telling Jewish students in New York to “Go back to Poland.”

  • ANTISEMITIC!

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• Wearing a keffiyeh.

  • NOT ANTISEMITIC!

• The enormous cloth JVP Seder Plate at USC with the Hebrew words all written backwards.

  • ANTISEMITIC.

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• The word “Intifada.”

  • Ok. It means “shaking off” or “uprising.” So, alone, not technically antisemitic. As a call to resistance in solidarity with an oppressed and slaughtered population, it isn’t necessarily an incitement of violence, but as a term that describes the periods of bloody resistance against Israelis in ‘87 and 2000, that is certainly a more targeted -

• “GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA!”

  • The hair on the back of my neck certainly stands up!

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• A tent occupation as peaceful protest.

  • NOT ANTISEMITIC!

• Asking me to go camping.

  • ANTISEMITIC.