Claremont Students for Israel has launched a David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC) campaign, titled “Jew Hatred on Campus Awareness Week.” In light of Students for Justice in Palestine’s “Israeli Apartheid Week,” we felt that it was necessary to bring this organization’s hateful ideologies and tactics to light. As the Claremont community has noted, SJP will go as far as intimidating college administrations, verbally harassing students and professors, and promoting anti-Semitic campaigns in order to promote their deceptive narrative. As DHFC indicated in its rebuttal to SJP’s “apartheid wall,” nothing that this organization claims is factual, and it fits a narrative that is morally reprehensible and contradictory to the community values that Pitzer College upholds of dialogue and of community.

This also comes in light of the rising anti-Semitism over the past year. Claremont Students for Israel does not want to see another mezuzah, a Jewish scroll placed on doorposts, ripped off a Jewish student’s room. CSI does not want to report more inflammatory comments on the Holocaust. CSI does not want to see this double standard held against Israel committed inside classrooms and in student events hosted by SJP and other “human rights” clubs on campus. According to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, Jewish students are a protected group from discrimination within a college environment. We firmly believe those rights should be protected, and we further believe that college administrations across the United States of America should hold Jewish students to the same protective standards as every other protected group on campus.

Jew hatred has infiltrated the Claremont Colleges, and we believe that the truth needs to be disseminated throughout the consortium to expose Jewish and non-Jewish students to the bigotry that exists here. That is why Claremont Students for Israel will host its final event of the semester on April 27th at Benson Auditorium. At this event, three academics will take part in a panel discussing the rising tide of anti-Semitism throughout college campuses and screen a short clip from Americans for Peace and Tolerance’s newest film, “Privileged Hate: Students for Justice in Palestine.” Whether you agree or disagree with this claim, we hope to start a new conversation about anti-Semitism, Jew hatred, anti-Zionism, and tolerance within college campuses. We encourage everyone to attend this event, as we believe Claremont deserves the truth about how anti-Semitism has infiltrated our campuses and how it makes Jewish students feel threatened on colleges throughout the United States.

We will announce more information as it becomes available.

David Horowitz Freedom Center
Jew Hatred on Campus
Americans for Peace and Tolerance
CAMERA on Campus
Zionist Organization of America
Claremont Progressive Israel Alliance