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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSpecial report: What's it really like to be Jewish on campus right now?
Four weeks into the Israel-Hamas war, a separate pernicious conflict is roiling American college campuses. Photos, clockwise from upper left, at U.C. Berkeley (by Kimberly Winston); U. Chicago (Debra Nussbaum Cohen); U. Michigan (Debrah Miszak); Harvard (Mira Fox); Columbia (Camillo Barone); Tulane (Leah Jablo); and USC (Louis Keene). Graphic by Matthew Litman
At the University of Chicago, a Jewish senior has stopped crossing the quad to get to her classes, going the long way around to avoid seeing slogans like Zionist Freakshow Off Our Campus and Gaza is a Concentration Camp.
The student head of Hillel at the University of Michigan, meanwhile, has been so consumed with the fallout from the Israel-Hamas war that she has had to ask for extensions on assignments in some cases from faculty members who signed a letter condemning the schools president for ignoring the plight of Palestinians after the Oct. 7 terror attack.
And at Rutgers University in New Jersey, the Israeli-American leader of a group called Peace is Possible is newly alienated from his Palestinian co-president.
The war has made us argue in a way we hadnt before, said Or Doni, 20, a biology and neuroscience major. He sent me a very long message a few days ago, talking about how hes upset about things Ive said, and how Ive said them.
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