White House convenes meeting to address spike in campus antisemitism during Israel-Hamas war
At multiple campuses, Jewish students have been barricaded in buildings amid pro-Palestinian protests, other Jewish students have been assaulted.
Demonstrators take their “Emergency Rally: Stand with Palestinians Under Siege in Gaza” out of Harvard University and onto the streets of Harvard Square, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., October 14, 2023(photo credit: REUTERS/BRIAN SNYDER)ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA