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Hundreds of Northwestern Students Refuse To Watch Anti-Semitism Training Video
Washington Free Beacon ^ | September 30, 2025 | Matthew Xiao

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: aipac; antisemitism; illinois; nazis; neonazis; neveragain; northwestern; submit; trump

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1 posted on 10/01/2025 8:38:18 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Do those students get anu Fed $$$? If so, cut it off.


2 posted on 10/01/2025 8:40:10 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
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To: Twotone

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.


3 posted on 10/01/2025 8:40:12 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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Good for them.


4 posted on 10/01/2025 8:41:17 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Twotone

Social-Racial training videos? Sounds like DEI

NO conservatives should support this.


5 posted on 10/01/2025 8:41:52 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Twotone

1.4%................Muslims


6 posted on 10/01/2025 8:42:18 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Twotone
At least 300 of Northwestern's 22,000 students boycotted the training, leading the university to bar them from registering for fall classes

Excellent.

7 posted on 10/01/2025 8:42:37 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Twotone

“Hitler Youth” training in the left-wing fascist universities - been going on for decades.


8 posted on 10/01/2025 8:44:35 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: PGR88

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.


9 posted on 10/01/2025 8:45:41 AM PDT by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
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To: Twotone

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.


10 posted on 10/01/2025 8:47:37 AM PDT by Reddy (BO stinks)
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To: Twotone

Completely from Chicongo.


11 posted on 10/01/2025 8:48:39 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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I’d make a history of Israel a required course for graduation.

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.

12 posted on 10/01/2025 8:48:58 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Dr. Sivana

I agree.


13 posted on 10/01/2025 8:52:41 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: PGR88

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.


14 posted on 10/01/2025 8:53:45 AM PDT by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
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To: Reddy

Hey, my tagline represents that!


15 posted on 10/01/2025 8:55:05 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Twotone

Throw the dumb-a$$es out. They are too stupid and arrogant to be in EVEN a fake university like Northwestern.


16 posted on 10/01/2025 8:57:29 AM PDT by Agatsu77
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👍👍


17 posted on 10/01/2025 8:57:48 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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Solution: Send them home! Or incompletes in all their classes until they watch the film. No special treatment or exceptions!


18 posted on 10/01/2025 8:58:20 AM PDT by Reily
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It IS a proud tradition for many of us 🤣🤣🤣


19 posted on 10/01/2025 8:58:23 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Twotone

Get the feds out of anything college. “Education” is not in the Constitution.


20 posted on 10/01/2025 9:00:43 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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