Reminder to Sign and Share USC Letter Urging Policy Changes to Protect Jewish and Pro-Israel Students
In 2020, a pro-Israel Jewish student government vice president felt compelled to resign her position following a relentless social media campaign to oust her from office, which included such comments as “impeach her Zionist a–” and it “warms my heart to see all the Zionists from USC and USG (Undergraduate Student Government) getting relentlessly cyberbullied [smiling emoji].”
In 2021, a USC graduate student published threatening tweets that included, “I want to kill every mother f—king Zionist,” “Zionists are going to f—king pay” and “yel3an el yahood [curse the Jews].”
TAKE ACTION:
Following recent examples of harassing behavior targeting Jewish and Zionist students at the University of Southern California (USC), including a graduate student's social media death threat against Zionists and a bullying campaign targeting a Jewish vice president in the Undergraduate Students Government (USG) and other Zionists on campus, the University committed itself to taking steps to address this problem.
However, without acknowledging and addressing the fact that USC's anti-harassment policy does not afford equal and adequate protection to Jewish and non-Jewish students who are harassed because of their Zionist identity or pro-Israel views, USC cannot fulfill its fundamental obligation to ensure that all students can fully participate in campus life, free from harassment. TAKE ACTION.
Sign the open letter urging USC to make important policy changes to ensure that Jewish and non-Jewish pro-Israel students, and allstudents, will be equally protected against harassing behavior that prevents them from fully participating in campus life.
