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Hotspots of antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment on US campuses

Notes
1 Birthright

Israel is a free, 10-day trip to Israel for Jewish young adults ages 18 to 26 that aims to strengthen
Jewish identity, Jewish peoplehood, and connection to Israel among Jews around the world (Saxe &
Chazan, 2008). The program was launched in 1999 and is funded by a coalition of private donors, Jewish
organizations, and the Israeli government. As of summer 2016, more than 500,000 Jewish young adults
from around the world have participated (http://www.birthrightisrael.com/about-us).

2 There

is a notable exception to the restrictions discussed above. In this report multi-level, random-effects
regression models are used to explore the relationship between individual- and school-level factors on
individual perceptions of hostility to Israel or Jews, comfort expressing views on Israel, connection to
Israel, and involvement with Hillel. Because these models are able to correctly account for the clustering of
respondents within schools, and the varying sample sizes of different schools, respondents from all 50
schools are included in these models, and schools in the Cal state and University of California system are
not grouped together but considered as separate schools.

3A

CMJS researcher looked for online presence of SJP chapters at each of the universities included in this
study. This included, but was not limited to, Facebook pages and Twitter accounts.

4See

Tables 2-5 in the Appendix.

5See

Table B4 in Technical Appendix B for full results of random effects ordered logistic regression models
on perceiving a hostile environment toward Jews and Israel among students in the Cal State system, as a
function of school.

6See

Table B5 in Technical Appendix B for full results of random effects ordered logistic regression models
on perceiving a hostile environment toward Jews and Israel among students in the “Other UC” schools, as
a function of school.

7See

Table B6 in Technical Appendix B for full results of a random effects ordered logistic regression model
of connection to Israel.

8See

Table B7 in Technical Appendix B for full results of random effects ordered logistic regression models
of feeling uncomfortable expression an opinion about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict due to lack of
knowledge or perceived hostility of the discourse.

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