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Ignorance is not bliss
I've never seen a swastika. I know what they look like from television shows (most recently on "Grey's Anatomy"), WWII documentaries and my visits to Holocaust memorial museums. But aside from that, I've never actually seen a swastika drawn out of malice on a public building or a private home or even on a piece of paper.
Though I grew up in a home that wasn't Jewish, there was never the slightest hint of anti-Semitism in my family. I went to high school in a largely Christian town on Long Island. If anything, the few Jewish classmates I knew were "cooler" than everyone else.
In college (my university was 32% Jewish and ranked among the Top 20 private schools with large Jewish populations), I worked for the campus television station. Not once, in my four years there, did we report a story on anti-Semitism.
So, if you were to ask me, I'd tell you that anti-Semitism is not really a problem. But clearly, I live in a bubble.
As you will read in this edition of Hillel Campus Report, 51% of college students felt that they had experienced anti-Semitism either in college or in high school.
Whether the incidents have been intentionally anti-Semitic is not always clear. But the fact that they occur is sufficient evidence that a problem exists. I encourage you to join this conversation by commenting on the above article, "Anti-Semitism on the College Campuses."
I have more to say. Read my full column here.
Danielle Freni
Editor
(202) 449-6537
dfreni@hillel.org
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