- Use your platform as a staff or faculty member to condemn antisemitic incidents when they occur and signal to your Jewish colleagues and students that their safety and well-being is paramount. Simultaneously, listen to members of the Jewish campus community when they approach you with concerns about the campus climate.
- ADL resources on what constitutes antisemitism, and its relationship with anti-Zionism, can be found here. You can also read more on classic anti-Jewish tropes and myths in our Antisemitism Uncovered guide.
- External resources on the relationship between antisemitism and anti-Zionism can be found here.
- Encourage your students and colleagues, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, to report any antisemitic incidents they may experience or witness to the appropriate campus department. Follow up with any such students or colleagues to ensure they received the appropriate support. Additionally, report any incidents you witness or experience on ADL’s reporting system, to the Campus Antisemitism Legal Line (CALL), and/or to local law enforcement. Encourage other members of the campus community to report via these channels as well if they witness or experience antisemitism on campus.
- Organize events, roundtable discussions and speakers’ series to raise awareness of antisemitism and promote understanding on how to recognize and counter it. Where possible, organize interfaith initiatives to foster connections between members of different religious and faith-based groups, and reconciliation dialogues to bring together different communities for educational discussions on challenging topics. Your campus Hillel, Chabad or Jewish Studies Department are good resources for this.
- Participate in training sessions to learn more about antisemitism, including its origins, manifestations and impact, and increase personal self-awareness. Encourage others in your campus community, including students, other staff and faculty members and union representatives to leverage resources to deepen their understanding of antisemitism and anti-Zionism as well. Resources and training materials can be found throughout this resource.
- For those within representative positions in unions, strive to educate fellow union members through resource sharing and the establishment of clear policies and guidelines grounded in anti-discrimination principles. Union members who have witnessed or experienced antisemitism or anti-Zionism within their unions should report such incidents using ADL’s reporting system.
Additional Guidance for Faculty
- Certain departments should strive to re-assess their curricula to ensure that accurate and pedagogically-sound content about antisemitism, Jewish identity and religious diversity, including case studies, can be integrated where applicable. Curricula should also be examined to ensure that any biased content, including about the Jewish community, is removed.
- Ensure that your classroom offers students a space where civil discourse, including about the Israel-Hamas war and about modern manifestations of antisemitism, can thrive in an educational and constructive manner. Re-affirm that bias, discrimination and micro-aggressions will not be tolerated in your classroom. For guidance on promoting conscientious conversations on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, see here.