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00:00The civil rights group Stop Anti-Semitism issued its 2025 report cards on college's handling of anti-Semitism,

00:07with 14 schools flunking the exam, including two New York City universities.

00:13A whopping 39% of Jewish college students have actually resorted to hiding their Jewish identities on campus out of fear,

00:20while 62% said they have been directly blamed for Israel's military action in Gaza,

00:25according to the disturbing new report obtained by The Post.

00:30The report, which grades how 90 colleges address the spreading of hatred against Jews on campuses,

00:35comes as Jewish Ivy League students, like Eden Yadiger,

00:38have repeatedly sounded off about their school's lack of action against anti-Semitism.

00:43We are ostracized, mocked, harassed, assaulted, and scapegoated because of our identities.

00:50The Jews yelled at visibly Jewish friends of mine on multiple separate occasions.

00:55Stop Anti-Semitism's founder, Leora Rez, said in a statement,

01:01Anti-Semitism on American college campuses is systemic and tolerated,

01:05and in many cases enabled by the very institutions tasked with protecting our American kids.

01:11New York City institutions Columbia University and the New School,

01:15which both saw massive anti-Israel protests break out since Hamas' October 7, 2023 terrorist attack,

01:22received an F-grade in the assessment for allowing this culture of, quote,

01:26pervasive anti-Semitism to run rampant.

01:29Several other Ivy League schools also received failing grades,

01:32including Brown University, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale.

01:37Other prestigious schools that failed include MIT, Northwestern, and UC Berkeley.

01:43Altogether, 14 out of the 90 schools received a failing grade from Stop Anti-Semitism.

01:49The schools that received F's in the report have become ground zero for anti-Semitism in American higher education, Rez said.

01:57These institutions pride themselves on being moral and intellectually elite,

02:00yet they repeatedly failed to protect Jewish students from harassment, intimidation, hostility, and real violence.

02:08Stop Anti-Semitism's annual report was put together by documenting the volume of anti-Semitic incidents

02:13that occurred at American colleges in 2025.

02:18Earlier this year, much of the drama surrounding Columbia University

02:21came after one of its students, Mahmoud Khalil, was arrested in March,

02:25as Secretary of State Marco Rubio sought to deport him

02:28over his participation in the anti-Israel demonstrations that engulfed the campus,

02:33which the Trump administration claimed posed a threat to U.S. foreign policy interests.

02:38The high-profile arrest caused yet another wave of unrest at the Ivy League school,

02:42with students and teachers alike putting on demonstrations in protest.

02:46We will not take lectures on anti-Semitism from segregationists and neo-Nazis.

02:51It is my honor now to stand before you and call on what remains of the United States government

02:57to do the right thing and free Mahmoud Khalil.

03:01Tangents this year culminated in May as massed anti-Israel protesters went on to occupy

03:06the university's Butler Library and burn diplomas at graduation while chanting,

03:12Free Palestine.

03:12In 2025, Jewish students at Columbia University also saw massed anti-Israel protesters burst into classes

03:20like the history of modern Israel, and once again engage in chaotic clashes with police.

03:26Even so, 2025 was a far cry from the chaos of 2024.

03:31On April 17, 2024, anti-Israel protesters took over the Morningside campus,

03:37erecting dozens of tents on the university's famous lawn.

03:40On April 18, with the backing of the school's administration,

03:44the NYPD pushed in and made mass arrests, but the protesters, undeterred,

03:49once again erected their tents the following day, with the intention of settling in for the long haul.

03:55After the school suspended a number of protesters at the end of April 2024,

03:59demonstrators broke into Hamilton Hall and barricaded themselves inside.

04:03NYPD officers breached the entrance on April 30th.

04:11The cops had to cut, burn, and rip through layers of barricades,

04:14including mountains of chairs, trash cans, metal tables, and chains, in order to reach them.

04:19Two long-time Columbia janitors claim in a lawsuit that they were trapped inside

04:29and assaulted by the Hamilton Hall mob, who called them, quote,

04:33Jew lovers and left them injured, traumatized, and unable to work.

04:37One of the janitors, Mario Torres, said the assault came after months of being forced to erase

04:41so many swastikas on campus that he lost count.

04:45As an African-American man, he found the images deeply distressing.

04:49He reported them to his supervisors, who instructed him to erase the graffiti, his complaint alleges.

04:54The chaos eventually led to the university to hold remote classes,

04:58as the protesters continued to dominate the campus,

05:01and a rabbi warned Jewish students to stay home for their own safety.

05:04As the situation continued to spiral out of control,

05:07the administration announced they would cancel in-person commencement.

05:11The issue extends beyond Columbia University to other schools as well.

05:14In Stop Anti-Semitism's 2025 report, only 15 schools received an A,

05:20including Baylor, Clemson, Elon, and Colorado State University.

05:25The group ultimately called on all schools in the U.S. to follow in the footsteps of the A-rated universities

05:30in condemning hate against Jewish students

05:33and forming a transparent and standard investigation policy against acts of hate.

05:38These schools don't wait for national headlines or external pressures to act.

05:42They set clear standards, enforce them consistently and fairly,

05:46and make it known that anti-Semitism is not tolerated on their campuses, Rez said.

Columbia University Receives 'F grade' in Antisemitism 'Report Card' – Along with 13 Other Colleges

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