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“We have an echo chamber here at the University of Washington,” he said. “People just have no clue how different things are here versus elsewhere. And an awful lot of people just stay silent. You know, they just decide it’s not worth the risk of speaking up. They see what happens to people like me.”
The computer science professor said he worries the activists will disrupt students and staff trying to get to class to make their point. He also worries about this kind of antisemitism creating an even more inhospitable campus climate for Jewish students.
UW has become hotbed of antisemitism
The UW Seattle campus has been a hotbed of antisemitism, with students and faculty consistently demonizing Israel and using Hamas talking points to denigrate “Zionists,” those who believe Israel is the ancestral homeland to the Jewish people.
Some of the very activists planning the encampment previously vandalized the campus student activities center, the HUB, earlier this month. They caused at least $14,000 in damages.
They then commandeered the building and turned their vandalism into an overnight sit-in. UW Police did not intervene, even as antisemitic activists harassed student media members covering the lawlessness and as some in the group stole an Israeli flag from a student counter-protester.
“I will never forget the experience of being told that I am a ‘disgusting person of color’ and that my ancestors would be sickened by the person I am, among a slew of other dehumanizing statements,” a student editor at The Daily wrote of her experience covering the so-called “direct action.”
Meanwhile, student workers with the Office of Student Diversity and Inclusion (OSDI) emailed students on Oct. 25 to accuse Jews of genocide and apartheid.
Students aren’t the only ones spreading hate and terrorizing Jews on campus.
Megan Ybarra is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and a radical. Just days after the Oct. 7 terrorist attack by Hamas, Ybarra spoke to a crowd of antisemites on campus. She asked, “Why does our timeline for justice start on October 7.”

https://mynorthwest.com/3958381/rantz-uw-seattle-students-encampment-columbia-university/