Larry Diamond and Jeffrey Koseff with Larry Mantle | "It's in the air": Antisemitism and anti-Israel bias on college campuses, and how to address it.

The severe uptick in antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents on college campuses since the October 7 Hamas massacre in Israel has been widely documented. In late 2023, Stanford University’s President appointed our America at a Crossroads guests, Larry Diamond, a senior fellow both at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor Jeffrey Kosseff, to co-chair a Committee to study antisemitism and anti-Israel bias on campus. The Committee conducted more than 50 different listening sessions and as many individual interviews; hundreds of undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, staff, alumni, and parents participated. The Committee issued a Report that they found widespread and pernicious antisemitism as well as a failure on the part of the University to respond to complaints. This program reviews the findings contained in the Stanford Report and the speakers discuss similar findings on other campuses. A key element of the Committee’s work was to make recommendations as to what must be done to address this serious and growing problem.