But as last year's encampments and protests exposed rather clearly there is definitely an anti-Semitism problem among GenZ and on the Left (just like there is on the Right).

There is a way to criticize Israel's policies and Netanyahu without resorting to anti-Semitic tropes, stereotypes and conspiracy theories.

so much of what we know about what is happening there is coming straight from hamas. antisemitism is in their blood. college kids cd use some facts and background.

Anyone stupid enough to say even the slightest criticism gets rained death on in social media and reported.
I commented on a reel on Instagram about EU nations recognizing Palestine, saying "Israel isn't making any friends" that's it, that's all I wrote and it was removed and I got a warning.
I genuinely know of no place on the internet where you can make even the mildest of comments about Israel and not get skewered for it.

For that very reason I normally don't comment on these stories but I also feel like I'm being cowed into submission, typically even saying the word "Gaza" can get a comment hidden on most social media lately.
Israel has a right to exist but so do Palestinians.

Without seeing the video I can't comment.

Northwestern is a private institution and they have the right to require things. My employer requires me to take various kinds of "trainings" each year. They're usually pretty lame but it's not a problem to sit through them for a half hour or so.

Employers and institutions have also been requiring DEI trainings for years.

Anti-Bias, Sexual Harassment, Safety, Environmental, and probably a few others during the years.

Just watched them and then just went back to work. HR could check off that they did their job.

Wonder where the students plan on transferring to?

We never effectively turn their words back on them.

Others have taken it...not that complicated.

Isn't that the same criticism we give Fox News viewers?

Why not a video that includes antisemitism, misogyny, racism, bigotry and xenophobia as well?

Because videos on those issues are now considered "DEI" but videos on antisemitism are now required for admission.
They could have got the same message across in a much less confrontational manner by addressing all those issues, without any specific bias to any, and then if people still balked then I would question their actions.

It seems moronically stupid to protest in this manner. Instead, watch the video, preserve your options, and protest its content (or better still the conflict) in an informed manner (having actually seen the video) from that point on. This is just as stupid as throwing the vote to Trump because Harris/Biden was just too unpalatable. Somehow, it could not be understood that Trump/Vance would be infinitely worse vis-à-vis Gaza. This sort of idiotic protest is essentially what gave Netanyahu carte blanche not to stop short of complete defeat of Hamas in Gaza, no matter how many are killed incidentally along the way.

This protest is just kicking and screaming "I will not comply!" and asserting a fig leaf of "not being complicit". Stupid. Watching a video hardly makes one complicit. The only reason not to watch such a video and to take the resistance to this level immediately is if one actually does not think that one's case has enough merit on its own to withstand whatever is in the video.

because she had the gall to say the problem in Israel was "complex".

Well, IT IS COMPLEX!

Others have seen the video and reported on its contents.
Why are they specifically being required to watch a video on antisemitism? Why not a comprehensive video on antisemitism, racism, misogyny and bigotry? Isn't that important too?
Because those type of videos are considered "DEI" now.

there’s also a vid on anti-arab prejudice.
i’d like to see it.

Thank you, students.

..... the contents and point of view of the video by people who have seen it.. It contains both positive and negative descriptions and examples. One negative description came from a member of Jewish Voices for Peace:

https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/03/10/campus/new-required-bias-training-met-with-boycotts-from-sjp-and-jvp-approval-from-others/

Since the video or training is not on line, that I can determine, there isn't any way to verify the opinions, positive or negative, that were expressed in the article.