Students from Penn, Penn State and Pitt are worried there could be more encampments and harassment of Jewish students come fall.
And even at Pennsylvania State University, which perhaps did not experience as much tension last academic year as some other campuses, according to student Mackenzie Borine, who testified, there is concern about a possible escalation.Their comments came during the two-hour hearing that was focused on concerns about antisemitism on college campuses and also included testimony from Hillel administrators and the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League in Philadelphia.
“Banging on the windows of the center for Jewish students at Penn State was not an attempt to engage in dialogue or change policy,” Kaufman said. “It was intended to isolate and frighten Jewish students.” While the Pitt student also credited his university with a good response, Messafi, a rising sophomore from West Chester, N.Y., was critical of Penn, noting that problems began when the university allowed theto be held on campus in September and escalated after the Hamas attack on Israel. The university did not move quickly enough to take down the encampment, he said, and there were more than 150 reports of complaints from Jewish students.
Penn declined to respond directly to Messafi’s allegations but referred to a statement it put out the day it dismantled the encampment, which said it had hoped that “reasonable conversations could address both the concerns of protestors and the needs of the University.”
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