After a semester marked by displays of intolerance, IU will enter next semester with a renewed effort to promote unity on campus.
The recent string of hate crimes against the Jewish community at IU has attracted a large response by the campus in general. For members of the Jewish community, dealing with anti-Semitism is nothing new.
Between the start of the 2005 school year and the end of June 2010, 64 incidents of discrimination were reported against Jews.
Against all other religious groups combined, there were only 27 incidents in the same period. Last year, 70 percent of religious incidents were directed at the Jewish community, which IU’s Helene G. Simon Hillel Center estimates comprises 10 to 12 percent of the student population, or 3,800 to 4,000 students. This year’s attacks have already matched the number of anti-Semitic incidents in 2007 and 2008, according to reports from the Student Ethics and Anti-Harassment Programs’ Incident Teams.
“As a Jew you assume someone out there is anti-Semitic,” said Trevor Sheade, secretary of IU’s Beta Gamma Chapter of Zeta Beta Tau, the nation’s first Jewish fraternity. “It’s so prevalent.”
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