The cry gevalt syndrome
are Jewish students really 'terrified' on campus?
Haiven, Larry http://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/the-cry-gevalt-syndrome-are-jewish-students-really-terrified-on-campus
Publisher: Canadian Dimension
Date Written: 06/11/2022
Year Published: 2022
Resource Type: Article
University campuses are places where contending views meet and clash. Pro-Israel organizations would seem to want the opposite.
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If you believe pro-Israel Jewish organizations and often the media, campuses in Canada, the US and the UK are places of seething hostility for Jewish students.
The Yiddish expression “shrei gevalt” (or “cry alarm”) may be particularly apt here. It denotes raising a warning about impending harm, but going over the top, exaggerating for effect.
It is likely that antisemitism is rising everywhere commensurate with other forms of white supremacism, like anti-Black racism and Islamophobia. While any hate activity on campus is disturbing, are Jews (and Jewish students) more subject to bigotry than those in other groups, like Blacks and Muslims? This is not an easy question to answer—unless self-reporting is the measure.
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