New York CNN —Jewish students at major universities told lawmakers on Thursday they feel unsafe on campus amid a surge in antisemitism.
At a roundtable hosted by the House Education and Workforce Committee, students from Columbia University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other schools described hearing violent chants on campus and complained administrators are not doing enough to fight antisemitism.
“In the past five months, I have become traumatized,” said Talia Khan, a second-year graduate student at MIT.
Eden Yadegar, a junior at Columbia University, described how Jewish students were attacked by people wielding sticks outside of the university library, and how she has been mocked on campus as well as on social media.
The committee held a hearing in December questioning the presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania about antisemitism.
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