Why the Cycle of Campus Antisemitism Never Ends

by Sabrina Soffer and Shabbos Kestenbaum

April 14, 2026

Washington Examiner

Summary: Shabbos Kestenbaum writes about how universities substitute statements and gestures for real action against campus antisemitism for the Washington Examiner

Campus antisemitism doesn't persist because universities are unaware, but because they make placating statements and gestures while refusing to meaningfully act.

Last month, Jewish students testified before the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Numerous witnesses painted a bleak picture that should have settled the question, but it didn't. The evidence that campus antisemitism remains ongoing is overwhelming, and the will to confront it is absent.

What administrators call "progress" is, in reality, a perverse system of delay, deflection, and "deliberate indifference" that fuels antisemitic harassment and exclusion. On March 20, the Department of Justice sued Harvard University on those grounds. In August 2025, the DOJ found George Washington University had engaged in deliberate indifference. Earlier that year, the Department of Education concluded that the university retaliated against students who reported antisemitic abuse. These are formal findings backed by lived experience.

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