Jewish organization blasts colleges in billboard ad near San Diego State University to combat antisemitism

A Jewish enactment is making their connection agleam and bold successful a caller billboard run posted adjacent San Diego State University and calling connected colleges to combat antisemitism.

"Dear colleges, American kids are afraid. Do your job!" the billboard reads successful agleam pinkish and white.

The billboards are successful enactment of a nationwide run to combat antisemitism connected college campuses. 

"It’s precise hard to get people's attention," Archie Gottesman, co-founder of JewBelong, the nonprofit down the billboards, told Fox 5 San Diego. 

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Jewish enactment puts up caller billboards adjacent San Diego State University to combat antisemitism. (Fox 5 San Diego/Chabad House astatine SDSU)

Gottesman told Fox 5 that the enactment started putting up billboards to combat antisemitism successful 2021.

Then, conscionable 3 years aft they began their billboard campaign, the Hamas violent onslaught successful Israel happened connected Oct. 7, 2023.

Since the attack, Gottesman said the Anti-Defamation League said antisemitic attacks person accrued nationwide, including San Diego. 

"It truly makes nary consciousness that with a unspeakable massacre of guiltless radical comes a emergence of antisemitism successful America, truthful what JewBelong did is we doubled down, and we truly focused connected raising awareness," Gottesman added.

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Harvard University is 1 of respective institutions facing on-campus antisemitism. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

Gottesman said their extremity is to commencement conversations and interruption done the noise. 

"I consciousness similar possibly determination could beryllium a amended mode to truly explicate what is really happening," Chalom Boudjnah, Rabbi astatine the Chabad House astatine SDSU told Fox 5. "Is that really going to assistance students close now…"

Boudjnah said helium has seen harassment and attacks firsthand, including respective attacks of vandalism against the menorah extracurricular the Chabad house, which had been vandalized 3 times successful the past 2 years. 

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After respective vandalisms, a Chabad House adjacent San Diego State University has a caller menorah.  (Chalom Boudjnah/Chabad House astatine SDSU)

"I deliberation being the people with the menorah and antisemitism and everything else, I ever consciousness similar possibly resources should beryllium amended spent connected the radical connected the crushed and supporting the existent students that are going to the campuses," Boudjnah added.

The latest enactment of vandalism against the menorah successful March near the operation breached connected the ground, and it was each caught connected tape.

"It was done successful a vicious act. You tin spot wherever 1 person, who covered himself up, went consecutive astatine the menorah, pushed it down to the breaking point. Really, truly vile and hateful," Boudjnah antecedently told Fox News Digital.

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But contempt the attack, Boudjnah said it ignited the passionateness successful their tone much and that's erstwhile they decided to rebuild the menorah — adjacent with mounting hatred crimes and acts of antisemitism happening crossed the country. 

"It's been a load connected our community, but we are reminded that we person to basal strong. We didn't fto this ruin anything. Instead, we came unneurotic and decided to physique thing beauteous and strong," Boudjnah said.