14 U.S. universities fail antisemitism report card, watchdog says

Stop Antisemitism’s report said 39% of Jewish students felt they had to hide their identities on campus.

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News

An antisemitism watchdog issued its 2025 “report cards” Monday for 90 U.S. colleges and universities, failing 14 of them over persistent antisemitism on campus and the administrations’ poor efforts to contain it.

Stop Antisemitism said Jewish students nationwide face a “coordinated and well-funded campaign” of hostility, with incidents “conceived, planned, and executed by a nationalized infrastructure of professional activists and operators, timed for media impact, and designed to leverage sympathetic campus administrators and overwhelm ethical ones.”

The group compiled hundreds of incident reports and surveyed Jewish students about their experiences.

According to the report, fully 39% of Jewish students said they have hidden their identity on campus, while 42% said their schools have not taken adequate steps to protect them following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in Israel and the surge in anti-Israel and antisemitic activity that followed on U.S. campuses.

A total of 58% said they’d experienced antisemitism on campus, 65% of whom reported the incidents to administrators.

Only 12% said that the schools had “properly investigated” the cases and delivered satisfactory outcomes.

Nearly two-thirds (65%) of the students said they feel unwelcom as Jews in certain spaces on campus, and 38% said they would not recommend their schools to other Jewish students.

Five of the eight Ivy League schools received an F for hostile environments, antisemitic vandalism, harassment and protests, and inadequate responses: Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Other prominent universities receiving an F include MIT, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and Northwestern University in Illinois, which also operates a campus in Doha, Qatar.

Several of the schools are under federal investigation for potential civil rights violations related to antisemitism and have had federal funds—totaling hundreds of millions of dollars—frozen pending those probes.

“This report exposes a disturbing and undeniable reality,” StopAntisemitism founder Liora Rez said in a statement.

“Antisemitism on American college campuses is systemic and tolerated, and in many cases enabled by the very institutions tasked with protecting our American kids.”

“The schools that received Fs in the report have become ground zero for antisemitism in American higher education,” she added. “These institutions pride themselves on being moral and intellectually elite, yet they repeatedly fail to protect Jewish students from harassment, intimidation, hostility, and real violence.”

Fifteen schools earned an A for strong administrative policies and actions against antisemitism and for cultivating a sense of safety among Jewish students.

These included many in the southern US, including the University of Miami, Baylor, and Clemson, as well as the University of Connecticut, Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, and Arizona State University.