I never imagined that standing up for the right to offer the opinion that Israel has a right to exist— and by implication, that people of Jewish ethnicity have a right to exist— would become a defining issue of the college experience. Anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses is much, much stronger than I had ever realized.
A ray of hope has been the outpouring of support for vocally pro-Israel students at various colleges from a range of alumni, media, social media, etc., along with some fellow students and professors. Word spreads fast! They may be a minority on campus, but they are not alone.
A tragedy of the current era is the divisions among students belonging to various minority groups, who should be natural allies trying to make the world a more accepting place for ALL peoples. I liked the Tower article link I shared above, because it delves into some of the origins of this surprising division between Jewish liberals and other liberals that has left Jews on the outside, as the one ethnic group that the far-left and the far-right both hate.