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As Steve notes, in its survey of college woes, the Chronicle of Higher Education flags “alleged campus antisemitism.” Their readers might check out the University of California at Davis, just down the road from Sacramento.

As the California Globe reports, UC Davis is one of the most anti-Semitic schools in the country, beating out Columbia, “the lodestar of pro-Hamas protests” and UCLA, where earlier this year “Hamasniks blocked Jewish student access to parts of campus.” According the group Stop Anti-Semitism, UC Davis is the only California school on worst-25 list, which rates universities nationwide on the way they treat Jewish students.

Stop Anti-Semitism probes the way schools report anti-Semitic incidents and their willingness to work with Jewish advocacy groups.  Administrators are rated on how they respond to incidents, and whether they speak out about them at all. The group also seeks to know if Jewish students are included in DEI policies, and if they feel safe at the school. At UC Davis, Jewish students have to wonder.

As the Globe reported last year, assistant professor Jemma DeCristo tweeted threats to “Zionist journalists,” accompanied by photos of a cleaver, and axe, and blood. As it turns out, the assistant professor of American Studies was formerly known as Jeramy DeCristo, and as UC Davis explains:

For Dr. Jemma DeCristo, who is a scholar-artist-activist and writes about Black art and community, America is a “problem space.” This just means it is a metaphorical space to question, analyze, and grapple with real issues. Dr. DeCristo insists that when students in American Studies learn to treat the world around them as “problem spaces,” when they research, question, write, and study that space, they can start to mold their reality and build the world they want.

Consider also another professor in Dr. DeCristo’s department:

José Manuel Santillana Blanco is a Queer Xicanx Feminist activist, scholar and storyteller. . .

Drawing on the work of Black, Latinx and Indigenous decolonial thinkers, his work explores the ways Black, Immigrant and Indigenous women-led community struggles across the United States have been foundational to our understanding of racialized social life, ecological violence and resistance across entangled geographies. His dissertation titled Racial Motherhood Ecologies examines the intricate role local environmental histories play in shaping ecologies across varying geographies, especially in relation to the ways in which motherhood becomes salient as a mobilizing force to address and disrupt structural violence in their communities.

As Stop Anti-Semitism noted, professor Blanco also “celebrated the 10/7 massacre,” the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust. As the Chronicle of Higher Education should know, there’s nothing “alleged” about anti-Semitism at UC Davis.