How the Stanford anti-Semitism Debate Pits Jewish Students Against Students of Color

As a half-Korean, half-Jewish freshman, I stood frozen in front of a black-and-white landscape: my friends from Hillel on the right, students of color on the left.

Madeleine Chang
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On paper, Stanford is smiling students biking down a boulevard of palm trees into eternal startup bliss. In reality, Stanford is a community of many communities, which, like any other, must at times confront various forms of hate from within its own student body, including racism and anti-Semitism. This is not to say “life here is hard,” but rather to acknowledge that conversations and dynamics on campus mirror those beyond.

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