Wealthy Jewish families dump elite universities over pro-Gaza protests

Wealthy Jewish families are not having their college-going children apply to Ivy League schools after anti-Semitic incidents and anti-Israel protests.

Schools in conservative states such as Washington University in Missouri, Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Texas are seeing an influx of applications from Jewish students transferring to top colleges level such as Harvard and Columbia, New York. publication reported. Parents cited you protest in support of Palestinians on college campuses.

“They’re not paying a dollar more to the schools,” said college admissions consultant Christopher Rim. “They don’t want to be associated with these schools. They’re totally out.”

At one o’clock protest in support of Palestine, attendees chanted a slogan that has connotations to exterminate Israel after a Columbia University professor called the attacks “thrilling.” others demonstrations saw protesters make statements like “resistance is justified” in the wake of a deadly Oct. 7 terrorist attack carried out by Hamas in several places in southern Israel that killed more than 1,400 people.

Rim described how one of his clients who considered Columbia his “dream school” chose to apply to Emory University in Georgia and the University of Washington.

“After everything that’s happened on the campuses, this family is like, ‘You know what, we don’t want to go to any Ivy,'” Rim told the New York Post.

Rim also revealed that former clients contacted him, seeking help to relocate from universities in the wake of anti-Semitic incidents.

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