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Chart: Top Anti-Israel/Anti-Jewish Schools

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The idea, to have a chart listing all anti-Israel/Anti-Jewish school. This includes things like anti-Semitic attacks like scene at a Florida College, and of course Israel Apartheid week.

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On of the biggest challenges is the criteria and discipline of coming up with a number that reflects reality. What criteria is most important to reflect?

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hate crime, violet crime against Jews
Funding for anti-Semetic programming
Number of speakers who are anti-semetic
- but this requires a listing of anti-semetic speakers, or a way for people to report the speakers in a system, like a wikipedia system where anyone can add a note or tag of the speaker

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Are you trying to measure how a campus as a whole is? More often than not, there are 12 students in an SJP who get funding, bring in anti-Israel speakers, and organize. In the data, how do we differentiate from a place that has similar events and attendance (but with "community members," and not students) but has really, grassroots, anti-Israel sentiment?

How do you differentiate between faculty and administration who push to have anti-Israel speakers from those that were tricked into holding an event without proper knowledge of what would take place (which is a large % of these events)

Is it an anti-Semitic campus if you have anti-Semitic speakers at 10 events, each with 5 people? How do you weigh these things?

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The scale would first involve the campuses that hold Israel apartheid events, which can be found on the website of the same name. These are big events. We would also be looking at other large events held and endorced by the campus as well as professors who actually largely make their hatred of Israel known. Like that guy from Lincoln U, PA.

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On the Quantitative side, public universities and even some private institutions which receive public funds are often required to publish their budgets. How much funding do these school spend on anti-Israel speakers and projects?

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Among others, number of anti-Israeli & anti-Semitic incidents as well as events, a look at academics and the nature of their publications on this issue, etc....ultimately, you can't go entirely quantitative. You'll need qualitative data as this is really of value to the issue at hand. Obviously, this bears the danger of too much subjectivity in the eyes of any critic - I don't see anything wrong with it though, if you think about it....

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dodgy co-operations and funding from A-I sources. (For a great example, see the University of Edinburgh)

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Is there a place that this is outlined? Has someone already done this work?

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Are you referring to my comment concerning A-I/Arab sources funding European Academia? Yes! For one, Manfred Gerstenfeld should know something about that. Secondly, there has been quite a bit of uproar in the UK over these issue in the past two years. The Economist, among others, should have a piece or two on that. I can imagine that this has been followed up by other sources.... I can check this once it becomes more relevant.

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campuswatch

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Here are my subjective suggestions - based on the experience of the past few years.

Edinburgh, SOAS and I'd check with Dutch students. Netherlands seems to be really bad.

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One way to obtain some ratings could be to work with student fellow programs of organizations such as CAMERA and Christians United for Israel. These students would be a resource to help determine the criteria that Joseph mentioned.

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My colleague Jacob Wolf suggested that we focus on Free Speech, that way it is not an Israel only issue - it would send a powerful message to college deans and the alumni that their
school is anti-free speech.

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This could be a good idea - I'd take Israel and possibly another country / group as case studies then...

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I agree, I think focusing on free speech is a great idea. What other countries do you think should be included in that?

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Could we match speakers who represent official government policy to established indexes?

Democracy Index, Economist Intellegence Unit

Freedom House's Freedom in the World,

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Would this just be an update of sorts? How would this work? An infographic kinda thing?

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You know how when you apply to schools you get this flood of information and what not. You google things like "Colleges with blak program," or Colleges that have this club/degree.
We could do something like Top 10 Antisemitic/Anti-Israel schools. It would be a detailed thing, each college relevant would have a post stating how they have an Israel Apartheid week and such.

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This is great. I think we should merge this with the "credit rating system" for schools. We are thinking alike.

Actually, my friend Ori came up with the idea and I just wrote him about this. Want to come onboard for some planning sessions? Do you mind if we merge the two?

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If you tell me more about this credit rating system, I don't see why we can't work together to make this happen. What exactly do you mean by Credit Rating?

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Basically, each school gets a score based on the anti & pro israel stuff going on. We make it up and have a critera. Then we put out the reports. We can call it the "Or Report" and every semester there is a new one. "Or" means light. So, shedding the "light" on this.

Also, we are working with some Europeans to do a Euro "Or Report" for this too!

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Sounds good to me. It would be good to have a set criteria. It really sounds good. I'd love to help make this happen.

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Ok, I've merged the two and I think we have more input. I think we can next focus on breaking it down into parts and specific goals.

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Well the schools would have to have anti-semitic incidents, as well as an Israel Apartheid week. If you go to the apartheid website they actually tell you what colleges and universities have those.

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Israel needs this!

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Actually, the Israel on Campus Coalition (www.israelcc.org) is underway on a study to measure campus sentiment, both pro-Israel and anti-Israel, to have a concept for, like you said, which campuses are more or less friendly to Israel.

Individual events are reported from those on the ground and quantified using a number of measures. I'd be happy to keep anyone updated who'd like to receive the information once it's public!

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