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education (Saxe et al., 2016; Shain et al., 2016).
Only a minority of Jewish students perceived
hostility toward Israel or antisemitism to be
substantial problems on their campuses. At
both Brandeis and the University of
Pennsylvania only a small proportion of nonJewish students expressed any support for
BDS.
The second element of our expanded research
program, and the focus of the current report,
looks at 50 US campuses and aims to
understand the dramatic variability across
schools that surfaced in our earlier studies. In

contrast to our 2015 study, which investigated
general trends in perceptions of anti-Israel and
antisemitic activity, the present study attempts
to identify specific campuses—“hotspots”—
where perceptions of antisemitism and antiIsrael activity are particularly high. We also
identify the campuses where antisemitism and
anti-Israel sentiment are rare. As we examine
the particular manifestation of these activities
on select campuses, we also attempt to
uncover how those environments influence
the lives of Jewish students in terms of their
connection to Israel and their comfort level
for discussing related topics.