“In the Shadow of War: Hotspots of Antisemitism on US College Campuses” describes Jewish students’ perceptions of antisemitism on 51 US college campuses in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war. The findings are based on survey data collected from nearly 2,000 Jewish undergraduate students at schools with large Jewish student populations. To understand the contours and prevalence of hostile school climates, we asked respondents about their perceptions of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel hostility on their campuses and their concerns about antisemitism at their schools. Because responses to these three questions were highly correlated, they were combined to form an overall measure of Jewish students’ perceptions of a hostile antisemitic climate at their respective schools, allowing for a ranking of schools on this measure.

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