Campus antisemitism in 2024

 Wall Street Journal:

The ancient poison of antisemitism has infected American higher education. During the spring, a student at Columbia was told to “go back to Poland” and chased off campus by a masked mob. A Yale undergraduate was poked in the eye with a flagpole. Jewish students at UCLA who refused to renounce their faith were blocked from critical parts of campus, a situation a federal judge found “abhorrent to our constitutional guarantee of religious freedom.”

Campus antisemitism isn’t restricted to these widely publicized incidents. Some Jewish parents say their children privately admit to feeling unsafe on campus. A survey by Alums for Campus Fairness finds “44% of Jewish students report never or rarely feeling safe identifying as a Jew at their school.”

College administrators and local authorities have the power and responsibility to protect Jewish students, but they have often failed. In December we all witnessed the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—the last of whom still holds that position—equivocate about whether calls for genocide against Jews directed against Jewish students amount to harassment. Since then, prosecutors have quietly dropped many charges against arrested rioters, undermining whatever will administrators might have had to enforce their antidiscrimination policies.

Universities and law enforcement need better leaders, but the U.S. also needs a legal structure prohibiting antisemitic harassment on college campuses with clarity and teeth. Doesn’t this structure already exist? Yes and no. Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination based on race, color or national origin in federally-funded institutions of education. But it doesn’t specifically prohibit discrimination against Jews, and unlike the sections of the act that govern employment and housing, Title VI doesn’t cover religious discrimination. The ruling against UCLA was based on the First Amendment, which doesn’t apply to private institutions.
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I don't recall any overt antisemitism when I attended the University of Texas in the mid-sixties.  To the extent there was any it involved fraternities and sororities, and my Jewish friends had their own fraternities and sorities.  I took a heavy load of classes so I could graduate in three years and had no time for social organizations.  When I got back from Vietnam I attended law school and graduated from there in two years.  I think I was in a law fraternity then and do not believe it discriminated against Jews.  I never saw any attacks on Jewish students at UT.

I suspect the current antisemitism is driven by Muslim students.  I think there were only a handful of Muslims at UT back in the sixties.