Schooled in Hate     

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It’s been a long time since colleges kept up their appearance as institutions dedicated solely to education and pursuit of truth. These days, universities are hotbeds of liberalism and progressivism, immersed in woke culture. Still, while Jewish students may not have felt perfectly comfortable on campus, it took October 7 for them to realize their fellow non-Jewish students wanted to see them dead

The walk from class to Princeton’s kosher cafeteria for lunch usually takes me ten minutes.

But on Wednesday, October 25, instead of heading to lunch, I approached a beautiful grassy area in front of the main campus center. Dozens of my fellow Jewish students stood silently behind a white plastic fence, holding Israeli flags and pictures of hostages. On the other side, a few hundred people chanted, roared, and pumped their fists in the air.

“They sounded like kindergarteners,” I told my family later. Two student organizers holding megaphones paced in front of the crowd, gleefully cheering. “Brick by brick, wall by wall, apartheid has got to fall,” they shouted. And then: “Intifada, intifada, long live the intifada.”

I felt my heart racing. I stared at them, then at the other Jews, in disbelief. The chants went on.