article_snippet: Thus it comes as a shock when at the University of California Los Angeles, a Jewish woman student applicant for the Student Council's Judicial Board is initially rejected after being asked:
article_snippet: "Given that you are a Jewish student and very active in the Jewish community, how do you see yourself being able to maintain an unbiased view?"
article_snippet: According to The New York Times, the discussion that followed had "seemed to echo the kind of questions, prejudices and tropes -- particularly about divided loyalties -- that have plagued Jews across the globe for centuries.
article_snippet: And in February, at another University of California campus in Davis, Jewish students opposed to a Student Council resolution advocating a boycott of Israel were heckled by cries of "Allahu Akbar" and a Jewish fraternity house was daubed with a swastika.
article_snippet: Would UCLA students consider it appropriate to ask U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan similarly hostile and demeaning questions?
article_snippet: As for the UC Davis students, the UC Davis students need to learn that support for Israel is a legitimate American tradition.
article_snippet: Students are of course free to disagree with Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis but not to harass or intimidate Jews who support Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis argument.
article_snippet: This type of hatred, stereotyping and bias is a worrying new development that suggests a generational problem.
article_snippet: In our recent study, my Trinity College colleague, Ariela Keysar, and I found that 54% of Jewish students reported experiencing or witnessing ant-Semitism on campus during the six months of September 2013-March 2014.
article_snippet: our survey covered 1,157 Jewish students on 55 campuses.
article_snippet: The patterns and high rates of anti-Semitism that were reported were surprising.
article_snippet: Another finding was that female students were more likely than males (58% versus 51%) to report anti-Semitism.
article_snippet: Jewish women seem more vulnerable on campus today.
article_snippet: Twenty years ago, complaints by Jewish students in Paris that they were subject to anti-Semitism from a strange coalition of Marxist, fascist and Islamist groups were ignored by complacent university and government officials.
highlights_snippet: Barry Kosmin: U.S. tradition of tolerance is challenged by incidents of anti-Semitism on campus .
  
highlights_snippet: Barry Kosmin says a majority of Jewish students surveyed reported experiencing or witnessing anti-Semitism .