After Pro-Palestine Campus Protests, State Senators Call Hearing on Antisemitism

On Tuesday, the Texas Senate Subcommittee on Higher Education held a daylong hearing that covered some of the most heated issues on college campuses in the state.

Committee Chair Sen. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, invited a panel including a UT student, a UT law professor, and the policy director of the Anti-Defamation League to testify about a spike in antisemitism on college campuses. The ADL’s Courtney Toretto said 2023 was the worst year for antisemitic incidents since the ADL began recording them and found that roughly 80% of campus-based antisemitic incidents in 2023 happened after Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel.

Creighton called protesters “pro-Hamas groups” and said that the protests were “an effort to intimidate Jewish students and faculty.” David Albert, a Jewish government professor at Austin Community College and a UT alum who identified himself as Zionist, testified at the hearing that “the term antisemitism is being misapplied. Antisemitism is simply hatred of Jews, not criticism of Israel. Criticism of the Netanyahu government is not antisemitic, criticism of the Israeli occupation of Gaza is not antisemitism, criticism of the existence of the State of Israel is not antisemitism – that is called anti-Zionism.

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