{"id":4510,"date":"2018-10-31T06:54:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T10:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=4510"},"modified":"2018-10-31T13:59:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:59:55","slug":"i-feel-like-bc-doesnt-care-about-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/31\/i-feel-like-bc-doesnt-care-about-antisemitism\/","title":{"rendered":"I feel like BC doesn&#8217;t care about antisemitism."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4497\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4497\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10312018-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4497\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10312018-2-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"I feel like BC doesn't care about antisemitism. Why haven't they made a statement about the tree of life shooting?\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10312018-2-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10312018-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I feel like BC doesn&#8217;t care about antisemitism. Why haven&#8217;t they made a statement about the tree of life shooting?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4498\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10312018-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4498\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10312018-3-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"Our professor also said it has a disproportionately low number of Jewish students compared to other colleges. Dunno if that's accurate.\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10312018-3-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10312018-3-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10312018-3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our professor also said it has a disproportionately low number of Jewish students compared to other colleges. Dunno if that&#8217;s accurate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was horrified to hear of this terrible event, and I&#8217;m sorry you feel like BC doesn&#8217;t care. Though I know it might not ameliorate the lack of a public statement, my library assistants have heard nothing but care and concern from BC staff, students, and faculty. As to the population: a recent Pew survey estimated that nationally, recent college graduates were about 3% Jewish, and Boston College Hillel estimates BC&#8217;s Jewish population at 2%. I doubt that&#8217;s enough of a difference to influence concern about antisemitism. I&#8217;m sure BC as a whole cares; perhaps student groups could help encourage BC to turn that care into a public gesture of some kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was horrified to hear of this terrible event, and I&#8217;m sorry you feel like BC doesn&#8217;t care. Though I know it might not ameliorate the lack of a public statement, my library assistants have heard nothing but care and concern from BC staff, students, and faculty. As to the population: a recent Pew survey &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/31\/i-feel-like-bc-doesnt-care-about-antisemitism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I feel like BC doesn&#8217;t care about antisemitism.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4515,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions\/4515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}