Crossing the Line 2: The New Face of Anti Semitism on Campus
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Duration Language English | Director Shoshana Palatnik Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 2015 |
Crossing the line 2 the new face of anti semitism on campus abridged
Crossing the Line 2: The New Face of Anti-Semitism on Campus is a 2015 film which documents how a growing number of anti-Israel demonstrations on U.S. campuses also include anti-Semitic messaging. The filmmakers interviewed pro-Israel college students, both Jewish and non-Jewish, who say that they feel increasingly intimidated to express their support for Israel on campus.
Contents
- Crossing the line 2 the new face of anti semitism on campus abridged
- Crossing the line 2 the new face of anti semitism on campus
- Synopsis
- Featured Experts
- Featured Student Activists
- The Filmmakers
- Criticism
- Release
- Reception
- References

Crossing the line 2 the new face of anti semitism on campus
Synopsis

Crossing the Line 2: The New Face of Anti-Semitism on Campus is a documentary film that was released in New York on February 25, 2015 as a “sequel” to Jerusalem U’s 2010 feature film Crossing the Line: The Intifada Comes to Campus. Like the original film, Crossing the Line 2 aims to uncover the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activity on North American college campuses and educate the viewer to be able to identify when valid criticism of Israel “crosses the line” into anti-Semitic rhetoric.
Both films explore the growing phenomenon of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activism on college campuses across North America, with Crossing the Line 2 covering more recent examples of this activism up to the year 2014. One such event, whose footage is shown in the film, is an anti-Israel demonstration at Cornell University where a demonstrator spits on a Jewish student and screams “f*ck you Zionist scum.”
The documentary also examines the experiences of Jewish college students who openly support the State of Israel and fight against campaigns on their campuses that oppose or critique the Israeli government, such as the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign and Israel Apartheid Week. These students consistently describe the hostility they face on their campuses, such as fake eviction notices at New York University, and Israel Apartheid Week held on campuses across North America. The film highlights two students from Ohio University who were arrested in 2014 for publicly criticizing the student senate president for participating in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge by pouring fake blood on herself and calling on Ohio University to divest from Israel.
Featured Experts
Featured Student Activists
The Filmmakers
Criticism
Sarah Turbow, Director of J Street wrote that the film was missing students who believe that even among BDS supporters and strong critics of Israel, not all are anti-Semitic.
Release
Crossing The Line 2: The New Face of Anti-Semitism on Campus was released in New York City on February 25, 2015.
Reception
Former member of the Dutch parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote that watching Crossing the Line 2 was “like having a bucket of ice water being poured over my head...The more we pretend that this is happening somewhere far away, the more hopeless and helpless we feel. But this is not happening far away. This is happening on American campuses, British campuses, Canadian campuses.”
Coverage of the film was reported in The Jerusalem Post, Jewish Voice, The San Diego Jewish World, The Blaze, The New York Jewish Week, The Washington Times, Breitbart and American Thinker.