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Commentary: Most colleges don’t require training that addresses antisemitism. That has to change

Liz Magill, president of University of Pennsylvania, testifies before the House Education and Workforce Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, in Washington, D.C. The Committee held a hearing to investigate antisemitism on college campuses.

Last week, the presidents of three prominent universities were grilled by about their lack of action on campus antisemitism. Nationally, antisemitic campus incidents since Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel. Seventy-three percent of college students on their campus this academic year. Although at DePaul, the number of We have seen flyers touting unproven accusations of mass murder — the medieval blood libel trope — and rallies where students and colleagues have chanted slogans calling for the elimination of Israel and Jews.

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