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Groups urge college presidents to protect Jewish students

(JNS.org) Fourteen organizations issued a letter to more than 2,500 U.S. colleges that urges them to protect Jewish students on campus in light of rising anti-Semitism. The organizations – including Alpha Epsilon Pi, AMCHA Initiative, American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, Americans for Peace and Tolerance, Christians United for Israel, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, David Horowitz Freedom Center, Hasbara Fellowships, Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel, Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, Simon Wiesenthal Center Campus Outreach, StandWithUs, and the Zionist Organization of America – raised concern over the ongoing intimidation of Jewish students by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). “While justifying its hatred and bigotry as protected under the First Amendment, the SJP employs tactics geared to silencing and marginalizing the views of Jewish students who support Israel,” the letter says.

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