Posted on 10/01/2025 8:38:18 AM PDT by Twotone
Hundreds of students at Northwestern University refused to watch an anti-Semitism training video that the school made mandatory amid President Donald Trump's crackdown on campus anti-Semitism.
At least 300 of Northwestern's 22,000 students boycotted the training, leading the university to bar them from registering for fall classes, the Forward reported. Northwestern, which also requires students to watch anti-bias training on Muslims, told students in a March email that the new anti-Semitism training "will adhere to federal policy," including Trump's January executive order "Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism."
Latest News Hundreds of Northwestern Students Refuse To Watch Anti-Semitism Training Video The school adopted the mandatory training following Trump executive order on combating anti-Semitism Pro-Palestinian encampment at Northwestern (Scott Olson/Getty Images) Matthew Xiao September 30, 2025
Hundreds of students at Northwestern University refused to watch an anti-Semitism training video that the school made mandatory amid President Donald Trump's crackdown on campus anti-Semitism.
At least 300 of Northwestern's 22,000 students boycotted the training, leading the university to bar them from registering for fall classes, the Forward reported. Northwestern, which also requires students to watch anti-bias training on Muslims, told students in a March email that the new anti-Semitism training "will adhere to federal policy," including Trump's January executive order "Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism."
The 17-minute video, which the Jewish United Fund produced specifically for Northwestern, aims to teach students about "who Jews are, how Jews understand themselves, and how anti-Semitism has morphed throughout time." The training defines anti-Zionism, which has gained popularity among radical anti-Israel protesters, as "the opposition to the Jewish right of self-determination," warning that anti-Zionism "takes many forms, most of which are anti-Semitic because they work against Jewish human rights."
The video also presents four quotes from anti-Israel activists alongside four from Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. "The fact that you can't tell the difference is terrifying," the narrator says. "The thing is, to most Jewish people, they feel the same because they are the same."
According to Northwestern, "students are not required to agree with the training modules," only to watch them, the Forward reported.
Northwestern has seen a slew of anti-Semitic incidents. During Passover in April, anti-Semitic vandals at Northwestern used red paint to write "Death to Israel" and drew Hamas triangles on Kresge Centennial Hall, a campus building that houses the school's Holocaust center, the Washington Free Beacon reported. Earlier that month, Northwestern's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine hosted an anarchist training session featuring two pamphlets that included propaganda from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group.
The school's terrorist ties don't end there. A Northwestern journalism professor used to run an organization that funneled money to Hamas, the Free Beacon reported earlier this month.
The Trump administration has frozen $790 million in federal funding to Northwestern and launched two separate civil rights investigations into the university over rampant anti-Semitism, with Northwestern president Michael Schill resigning earlier this month amid the scrutiny. Schill sparked significant backlash in spring 2024 over his decision to offer concessions to anti-Israel encampment organizers, including commitments to hire two Palestinian professors and offer full scholarships to five students from Gaza.
Harvard, Columbia, and other universities have also adopted training amid the Trump administration's funding cuts. So far, the administration has secured a $221 million settlement with Columbia and a $50 million settlement with Brown University and revoked visas of foreign nationals linked to anti-Semitic activity.
Do those students get anu Fed $$$? If so, cut it off.
I’m not big on the mandatory video viewings. I am also not big on fed funding of schools like Northwestern. Let’s do away with both.
Good for them.
Social-Racial training videos? Sounds like DEI
NO conservatives should support this.
1.4%................Muslims
Excellent.
“Hitler Youth” training in the left-wing fascist universities - been going on for decades.
NO conservatives should support this.
On this issue I would disagree. These ‘kids’ no NOTHING about what is really going on in Israel & all the anti-Israel protests are being ginned up by the usual Leftist suspects. I think a 17 minute video on the wrongness (if that’s a word) of antisemitism is the least that should be done. I’d make a history of Israel a required course for graduation.
Responses to this thread mean that not only are FReepers proudly not reading the articles, they aren’t even reading the first few lines of content.
The training is to expose ANTI-Semitism. So the people who are boycotting it hate Jews.
Completely from Chicongo.
OK, said the LGBTQ people - we're next with our video.
People will associate Israel with forced political correctness training. It's not going to win Israel any friends.
I agree.
OK, said the LGBTQ people - we’re next with our video.
If there was actual violence against LGBTQ on campus, I’m sure the administration would take exactly the same action. Jewish students are being harassed on university campuses. Something needs to be done to stop it.
Besides, they probably have Degree programs in LGBTQ nonsense.
Hey, my tagline represents that!
Throw the dumb-a$$es out. They are too stupid and arrogant to be in EVEN a fake university like Northwestern.
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Solution: Send them home! Or incompletes in all their classes until they watch the film. No special treatment or exceptions!
It IS a proud tradition for many of us 🤣🤣🤣
Get the feds out of anything college. “Education” is not in the Constitution.
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