LEVIN | I Thought I’d Be Secure From Antisemitism at Cornell. I Was Unsuitable.

An arrest has been made after evil posts on-line known as for the eradication of Jews at Cornell, the college I attend. However I really feel no sense of closure. Although the suspect, a fellow pupil, is in federal custody, the fixed menace of anti-Semitism looms over us nonetheless.

I discovered rising up in a staunchly conservative suburb of Orange County, California, that being Jewish shouldn’t be for the faint of coronary heart. As a child at school, classmates threw antisemitic tropes at me extra occasions than I can rely. 

Per week earlier than my highschool commencement, one pupil scrawled swastikas on his arms in ink and flashed them at me. For the antisemites amongst my friends, I wasn’t Gabriel, which is Hebrew in origin for “energy in God.” I used to be merely a grimy Jew, a penny-pincher — and different epithets which can be a lot, a lot worse…