There is a Hebrew phrase that captures this moment: gam ve gam — both this and this. It is both the best time and the worst time to be a Jewish student on campus today.

Let’s start with the worst.

In the years before October 7, Ontario campuses saw roughly 50 reported incidents of antisemitism annually. In the year that followed, that number exploded to more than 500. The numbers have since come down slightly, but they remain five to six times higher than historical norms. Student governments pass motions condemning the Jewish state while rationalizing the massacre of its civilians. Faculty members use their podiums to label Zionism a colonial crime and cast Jewish students who support Israel as defenders of genocide. In large swaths of the humanities, viewpoint diversity has all but collapsed. And, the very Diversity, Equity and Inclusion structures that were designed to protect minority students have too often gone silent — or worse – when it comes to Jews.

Jewish students are not imagining this hostility; they are living it. They have lost........

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