Anti-Israel Ivy League protests have prospective students looking elsewhere this graduation season

Some of the country's top graduating high school seniors are reconsidering leading universities amid backlash over far-left protests as administrators do little to counter radical student and faculty groups who dominate headlines, campus discourse and even swaths of physical space.

That same night across town, NYPD officers raised the American flag after taking down Palestinian colors that demonstrators had flown in place of Old Glory at the City College of New York. 'My uncle died defending this country, and these men and women put their lives on the line – and it's despicable that schools will allow another country's flag to fly in our country,' Adams, a former NYPD captain, told reporters.

Schools like Duke University in North Carolina, Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and Emory University in Georgia are now more attractive than Columbia, Yale and Harvard to many families, he said. Even schools where protests have broken out are attracting attention based on how administrators and the student body at large responded, including the University of Texas at Austin and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

What they're really concerned about is how the universities have just lost control to a fringe element, and that loss of control has created safety and other issues for students,' he said. Rice University in Texas is appealing because it has largely avoided becoming embroiled in the campus culture wars, he said.

There's definitely a mass brain drain going on, and a shift that's going to last for years in regards to the schools and applicants,' said Liora Rez, founder and executive director of StopAntisemitism. 'We're going to see a drop in standings in certain schools and a rise in others.' She pointed to Brandeis University in Massachusetts, which she said is actively trying to recruit transfer students who faced antisemitism at Ivy League schools.

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