Recently, I asked 15 Jewish teens if they had experienced antisemitism in the last year. Twelve said yes, and that it had taken place at school. From someone extending their arm in a Hitler salute, having a swastika spray-painted on their locker, hearing someone say “The world would be better if Nazis had finished the job,” or being asked if they had “killed any babies lately,” the hate Jewish youth are experiencing is real, and they are frightened: “Wherever I walk in school, I feel like I could be harassed again and made to feel unwelcome. I feel unsafe in my second home, my school.”

These are just a few examples of the hate Jewish students are being subjected to in school and society. They are afraid that if people find out they are Jewish, they will be mocked and blamed for events tak

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