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Pro-Palestine protests on the campuses of some of America\'s most elite colleges have resulted in hundreds of arrests and led Columbia University in New York to move classes online for the remainder of the semester. 

The pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, Yale, and New York University aren\'t just representative of an \\u201cantisemitic movement,\\u201d but a \\u201cfundamentally an anti-Western and anti-American movement,\\u201d Bill Jacobson says. 

Jacobson, a Cornell University law professor and the founder of Legal Insurrection and the Equal Protection Project, joins \\u201cThe Daily Signal Podcast\\u201d to explain who or what is driving the antisemitism on America\\u2019s college campuses. 

Jacobson points to the activist organization National Students for Justice in Palestine as the organizing force behind the current protests. 

\\u201cThey are an organization I have followed and written about for well over a decade,\\u201d Jacobson says of the pro-Palestine group. \\u201cThey support terrorists. They honor people like Rasmea Odeh, who killed two Jewish students in Jerusalem.\\u201d

Jacobson points to the ideology of critical race theory, which has spread across college campuses, for this rise in antisemitism. The related push for "diversity, equity, and inclusion," or DEI, is fundamentally anti-colonialism, Jacobson says, explaining that Israel is viewed by antisemites as \\u201ccolonial occupiers.\\u201d 

The anti-Israel and anti-American sentiment likely will continue on college campuses, he says, because \\u201cunless you are going to change the faculty at these schools, unless you are going to change the fundamental ideologies which drive them, removing students from the courtyard isn\'t going to change a thing.\\u201d 

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