feelsoalivetoday

So I was wondering what campuses are the most anti-zionist or anti-israel? I won't say how I feel about the issue but I want to know what are the campuses that have a high number of students who wear Palestinian scarves on campus and protest Israel-related events like pro-Israel speakers and stuff. Or the ones that have lots of professors who have similar views.

These are the schools I've been told so far:

Hampshire College (divested from Israel earlier this year)
Swarthmore College (very close to divesting from Israel)
Evergreen State College (Rachel Corrie's alma mater, surprise surprise)
University of Michigan (large Palestinian/Lebanese pop.)
Earlham College (ditto)
University of Rochester (protested the Gaza War with occupation)
University of California Irvine (Muslim Student groups very active)
MIT (Noam Chomsky teaches there)

Any others?

IBclass06

20% of the undergrads at Michigan and Rochester are Jewish.


Swarthmore and Earlham also have large Jewish populations.

molliebatmit

A large number of MIT students are Jewish. A larger number are more or less politically apathetic.

One well-known professor does not an anti-anything school make.

kwu

Is there something wrong about expressing outrage toward atrocities and inhumanity? About wearing a Palestinian scarf?

lol.

elizabethh

Cal State Long Beach has a professor who is a Holocaust denier. That's pretty awful.

feelsoalivetoday

Jewish doesnt mean pro-israel. Some of the most anti-israel people i know are jews.

Cuse0507

I would recommend looking abroad-maybe in Iran or Egypt. Most people in the US are anti-terrorist and thus inclined to support Israel.

ilovebagels

Columbia and Brown are probably the worst of the Ivies

rjkofnovi

^^^^Or the best ilovebagels. Depending on how you look at it.

tk21769

Generally speaking, a college does not have a foreign policy
Nor does the presence of Noam Chomsky on the MIT faculty say much about majority opinion there.

Anti-Israel viewpoints, I'd expect, are more likely to be challenged at a school with a high percentage of Jewish students. Colleges with a large percent Jewish students

I don't know of any similar list for percentages of Palestinian or Muslim students. However, I would expect that the more selective the school, the more likely you are to encounter articulate, well-informed people who care about the issues (possibly from one perspective or another) and will speak up about them.

jessiehl

My fiance asked me to post his answer: "University of Haifa".

Very classy how you make sure to say that Jews aren't necessarily pro-Israel, so a large number of Jews doesn't mean anything, but you assume in your list that a lot of Palestinians/Lebanese or an active Muslim community means that the school is anti-Israel.

This may shock you, but Noam Chomsky is one person in a university community the size of a small town. Same with the late Rachel Corrie and Evergreen State. I would say that MIT's "Israel right or wrong" group is usually more active than its "Palestinians right or wrong" group (these characterizations are mine, not theirs ), though it depends on how bogged down with work the people in those groups are at any given time. I would also say that this was not exactly a central issue on campus.

Montegut

Why would a character on Another World have anything to do with Anti-Israel sentiments?

ilovebagels

Very true, I must admit!

feelsoalivetoday

I would recommend looking abroad-maybe in Iran or Egypt. Most people in the US are anti-terrorist and thus inclined to support Israel.

False. A lot of college students and professors in america are anti-israel. Why do u think sites like campus watch exist?

Campus Watch

feelsoalivetoday

Columbia and Brown are probably the worst of the Ivies

Columbia had ahmadinejad speak on campus. Not sure about brown.