We've all seen the photos and heard the chants. Anti-Israel sentiment and rhetoric are flourishing on college campuses. How did we get here and what can be done?

There has been so much discussion about what's happening on college campuses and in the classroom, especially over the past few years, since October 7. Providing important new insights and perspectives, Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein speaks with scholar and writer Izabella Tabarovsky, author of Be a Refusenik!: A Jewish Student’s Survival Guide, and Shai Davidai, Israeli activist and former assistant professor at Columbia Business School whose new book is American Intellectual Antisemitism: The Anti-Jewish Movement Tearing Through Our Universities. They discuss the roots of modern anti-Zionism, the current climate on university campuses and how Jewish college students can defend themselves in school and in the court of public opinion.

Further Resources

• Buy Izabella Tabarovsky's Be a Refusenik
• Preorder Shai Davidai's American Intellectual Antisemitism 
• Follow Izabella Tabarovsky on Instagram,  X and Substack
• Read Hadassah Magazine's Q&A with Izabella Tabarovsky
• Read more about Shai Davidai on his website
• Follow Shai Davidai on Instagram and X

The show is hosted by Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein and produced by Hadassah Magazine with the support of the Engagement and Marketing divisions of Hadassah.

Our podcast editor is Arielle Kaplan.

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