Safe schools for a Jewish kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could just as easily create threads called:

Safe schools for Asian students
Safe schools for LGBTQ students
Safe schools for Black students
Safe schools for female students
Safe schools for Muslim students

How about safe schools in general? Where can our kids go where school is just about school?

I'm afraid OP is just another culture warrior trying to use a sincere worry and throw gas on it for political purposes.

There is a politics forum for that

Given the current situation, I can certainly understand where OP is coming from. Don't be a tone-deaf PP. No, I am not Jewish.

Agree. Cornell grad here, and a month ago I’d have sworn that Cornell would be a safe place for a Jewish person without giving it a second thought. I am absolutely shocked as to what is happening there now. Shocked and appalled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could just as easily create threads called:

Safe schools for Asian students
Safe schools for LGBTQ students
Safe schools for Black students
Safe schools for female students
Safe schools for Muslim students

How about safe schools in general? Where can our kids go where school is just about school?

I'm afraid OP is just another culture warrior trying to use a sincere worry and throw gas on it for political purposes.

There is a politics forum for that

Given the current situation, I can certainly understand where OP is coming from. Don't be a tone-deaf PP. No, I am not Jewish.

Agree. Cornell grad here, and a month ago I’d have sworn that Cornell would be a safe place for a Jewish person without giving it a second thought. I am absolutely shocked as to what is happening there now. Shocked and appalled.

To be fair to Cornell, my understanding is that the thread is NOT coming from Cornell community. Someone unrelated to the school posting threatening on social media. Feel free to correct me if my understanding is wrong/old.

[Anonymous]

Anti-semitic and anti-muslim events are both increasing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/10/30/fbi-threats-jewish-muslim-antisemitic/

I still think most college campuses are perfectly safe for both Jewish and Arab or Muslim students, but I get why people feel uncomfortable. Those threats at Cornell were very disturbing.

I do think there is value in pointing out that it's not just Jews in the US who are experiencing this worrying behavior. Acknowledging that the conflict in Gaza is also increasing violence against American muslims and Arabs is not an "all lives matter" stance -- it's illustrating the broader costs of this conflict and the important of coming together.

[Anonymous]

Here’s the perspective of myself and several Jewish people I know. We are horrified by the October 7 terrorist attacks. We are also horrified by the loss of life of innocent Palestinians. We are not safe in a world with Hamas and they are hiding in Gaza behind innocent civilians. This is a no-win situation. We want more humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza. We don’t understand why Egypt isn’t allowing Palestinians through the Rafa crossing and Muslim countries aren’t allowing them to immigrate. We believe Palestinians have the right to live in peace and would like to see Hamas wiped out and then have those Palestinians seeking peace return to live a safer and better life. We find it difficult to hear students saying innocent Israelis had this coming but that is the official stance of these groups protesting. I would never ever say innocent Palestinians had anything coming. Every innocent life is valuable. Every single one. What my kids have a problem with is the hate crimes around their campus. People targeting others purely for their religion. People defacing their dorm room doors with offensive images and language. They do not feel safe.

[Anonymous]

Bingo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You could just as easily create threads called:

Safe schools for Asian students
Safe schools for LGBTQ students
Safe schools for Black students
Safe schools for female students
Safe schools for Muslim students

How about safe schools in general? Where can our kids go where school is just about school?

I'm afraid OP is just another culture warrior trying to use a sincere worry and throw gas on it for political purposes.

There is a politics forum for that

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the perspective of myself and several Jewish people I know. We are horrified by the October 7 terrorist attacks. We are also horrified by the loss of life of innocent Palestinians. We are not safe in a world with Hamas and they are hiding in Gaza behind innocent civilians. This is a no-win situation. We want more humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza. We don’t understand why Egypt isn’t allowing Palestinians through the Rafa crossing and Muslim countries aren’t allowing them to immigrate. We believe Palestinians have the right to live in peace and would like to see Hamas wiped out and then have those Palestinians seeking peace return to live a safer and better life. We find it difficult to hear students saying innocent Israelis had this coming but that is the official stance of these groups protesting. I would never ever say innocent Palestinians had anything coming. Every innocent life is valuable. Every single one. What my kids have a problem with is the hate crimes around their campus. People targeting others purely for their religion. People defacing their dorm room doors with offensive images and language. They do not feel safe.

I'm also Jewish and these are my sentiments exactly.

I wish people would stop thinking they need to "choose a side" between the Israeli government's appalling treatment of Palestinians and Hamas's terrorism. The US government had a hand in this too, and I don't see anyone condemning themselves for the loss of life on either side.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the perspective of myself and several Jewish people I know. We are horrified by the October 7 terrorist attacks. We are also horrified by the loss of life of innocent Palestinians. We are not safe in a world with Hamas and they are hiding in Gaza behind innocent civilians. This is a no-win situation. We want more humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza. We don’t understand why Egypt isn’t allowing Palestinians through the Rafa crossing and Muslim countries aren’t allowing them to immigrate. We believe Palestinians have the right to live in peace and would like to see Hamas wiped out and then have those Palestinians seeking peace return to live a safer and better life. We find it difficult to hear students saying innocent Israelis had this coming but that is the official stance of these groups protesting. I would never ever say innocent Palestinians had anything coming. Every innocent life is valuable. Every single one. What my kids have a problem with is the hate crimes around their campus. People targeting others purely for their religion. People defacing their dorm room doors with offensive images and language. They do not feel safe.

I'm also Jewish and these are my sentiments exactly.

I wish people would stop thinking they need to "choose a side" between the Israeli government's appalling treatment of Palestinians and Hamas's terrorism. The US government had a hand in this too, and I don't see anyone condemning themselves for the loss of life on either side.

I'm Jewish and this is spot on. It is not totally unsurprising that a lot of college students see the world in very black and white terms, especially given that so many get their news from Tik Tok and other social media, which is basically propaganda from one side or the other...it is much more surprising that so many adults do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those that think in terms of racial and ethnic essentialism and determinism, it should be pointed out that Asians and Jews are highly "overrepresented" in all of the prestigious colleges and universities.

This fact doesn't stop Tablet magazine from catastrophizing about "vanishing" populations:

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-vanishing-ivy-league-jew

Maybe Jews are overrepresented because they have enough literacy to read past a headline ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the perspective of myself and several Jewish people I know. We are horrified by the October 7 terrorist attacks. We are also horrified by the loss of life of innocent Palestinians. We are not safe in a world with Hamas and they are hiding in Gaza behind innocent civilians. This is a no-win situation. We want more humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza. We don’t understand why Egypt isn’t allowing Palestinians through the Rafa crossing and Muslim countries aren’t allowing them to immigrate. We believe Palestinians have the right to live in peace and would like to see Hamas wiped out and then have those Palestinians seeking peace return to live a safer and better life. We find it difficult to hear students saying innocent Israelis had this coming but that is the official stance of these groups protesting. I would never ever say innocent Palestinians had anything coming. Every innocent life is valuable. Every single one. What my kids have a problem with is the hate crimes around their campus. People targeting others purely for their religion. People defacing their dorm room doors with offensive images and language. They do not feel safe.

Thank you. Say it again. Louder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You could just as easily create threads called:

Safe schools for Asian students
Safe schools for LGBTQ students
Safe schools for Black students
Safe schools for female students
Safe schools for Muslim students

How about safe schools in general? Where can our kids go where school is just about school?

I'm afraid OP is just another culture warrior trying to use a sincere worry and throw gas on it for political purposes.

There is a politics forum for that

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What schools in Virginia are safe for a Jewish girl??

I just want to say I am sorry that you have to ask this question. I don’t think it is crazy FYI. I don’t have a Va answer (not any information that I am familiar with) but Catholic schools tend to be very supportive and always have had a strong Jewish community. Boston College is less churchy than Notre Dame FWIW

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could just as easily create threads called:

Safe schools for Asian students
Safe schools for LGBTQ students
Safe schools for Black students
Safe schools for female students
Safe schools for Muslim students

How about safe schools in general? Where can our kids go where school is just about school?

I'm afraid OP is just another culture warrior trying to use a sincere worry and throw gas on it for political purposes.

There is a politics forum for that

Given the current situation, I can certainly understand where OP is coming from. Don't be a tone-deaf PP. No, I am not Jewish.

Agree. Cornell grad here, and a month ago I’d have sworn that Cornell would be a safe place for a Jewish person without giving it a second thought. I am absolutely shocked as to what is happening there now. Shocked and appalled.

To be fair to Cornell, my understanding is that the thread is NOT coming from Cornell community. Someone unrelated to the school posting threatening on social media. Feel free to correct me if my understanding is wrong/old.

The threats were on a Cornell specific forum. Still not known who exactly posted them. There were words like “F—- Israel” spray painted on campus. A Cornell professor who called the events of 10/7 “exhilarating”. I wouldn’t recommend it to my Jewish friends at this point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could just as easily create threads called:

Safe schools for Asian students
Safe schools for LGBTQ students
Safe schools for Black students
Safe schools for female students
Safe schools for Muslim students

How about safe schools in general? Where can our kids go where school is just about school?

I'm afraid OP is just another culture warrior trying to use a sincere worry and throw gas on it for political purposes.

There is a politics forum for that

Those groups may all be marginalized but no one is marching around calling for their murder. Jewish students are under particular threat right now. Please open your eyes and acknowledge it!

Really? No one is walking around calling for the murder of Muslims or in fact murdering them? Do you watch the news? A man murdered a Muslim CHILD for being muslim in IL a week ago. A Muslim pediatrician was murdered YESTERDAY in MD for being Muslim. Police are out here murdering unarmed black people everyday and have been for years? An entire political party is not out here trying to exterminate LGBTQIA people? Please!

[Anonymous]

Definitely a reasonable question to ask. Hillel lists the top colleges by Jewish population (VA Tech and JMU both make the list for public colleges) and percentage of enrolled students.

https://www.hillel.org/top-60-jewish-colleges/