Key Points
Anti-Semitic incidents on university campuses in the United States have risen sharply in recent months and Jewish students are feeling threatened..
"The anti-Semitic rhetoric has forced 70 per cent of the Jewish students to hide their identities," she said.. Talia Khan, the daughter of a Jewish mother and an immigrant Afghan Muslim father, was one of the four students who the Republican members of the House of Representatives presented before the media...
The presidents of Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) -- two Ivy League institutes -- and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) testified before a House Education Committee to answer criticism that they were not doing enough to counter anti-semitism on their campuses...
"I am a Jewish student currently immersed in an extremely toxic anti-semitic atmosphere at MIT," Talia Khan had earlier said, accusing the MIT administration, "namely president Sally Kornbluth", for having failed to address the rampant incidents of anti-semitism on its campus..
People pointed out that it was the university leaders and the administrations that had failed the Jewish students and were behind the rising anti-semitic incidents...
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