California rabbi puts colleges on notice after ‘national failure’ to protect Jewish students

Following months-long protests and unrest on college campuses around the country, the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles in California is asking universities to better protect students this upcoming year. 

In an open letter obtained by Fox News Digital, Rabbi Noah Farkas, president and CEO of Jewish Federation Los Angeles, details how universities and their surrounding communities can protect Jewish college students as they head back to school. 

Farkas said that as Jewish students prepare to go back to college, schools and administrators must acknowledge what happened on campus to Jewish students last year, calling it a “national failure and moral tragedy.”

“The failure to uphold rules around protests, the slow and inept response by security, and the lack of uniform rules enforcement, led to students and faculty being harassed, doxxed, and denied entry to parts of campus just for openly identifying as Jewish,” Rabbi Farkas wrote. 

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“Things have gotten so bad that Congress has stepped in to investigate and, in some cases last year, forced Jewish students to question their place on campus and create their own graduation. This must never happen again,” he continued.

Farkas said just as the anti-Israel protesters have promised to return to disrupting campus life, their organization has been planning a strategy based on democratic values that will support local students and faculty and educate others.

The three-component strategy he outlined in the letter includes: supporting the campus Jewish community, uniting Jewish students across Los Angeles, and ensuring universities uphold their true purpose.

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