New documentary sheds light on outrageous antisemitism at UW Seattle
Apr 28, 2025, 5:01 AM

The Seattle autonomous "Liberated Zone" on the University of Washington (UW) campus. (Photo courtesy of UW Professor Stuart Reges)
(Photo courtesy of UW Professor Stuart Reges)
While Ivy League schools like Columbia and Harvard have been the epicenter of news coverage over antisemitism on campus, it has also been rampant in Seattle at the University of Washington. And now it’s getting spotlighted in a new short-form documentary.
Los Angeles-based writer and filmmaker Jason Kessler is the host of the YouTube Show 鈥淛ew or False.鈥 He has created that reveals the onslaught of anti-Jewish sentiment at the University of Washington.
Kessler says that the aftermath of the October 7th terrorist attacks created a painful new reality for Jewish students. And he needed to cover it for the nation to see.
鈥淛ewish students were terrified. They hid their Stars of David and took off their yarmulkes. They avoided campus and skipped class in the months that followed. 聽Swastikas spattered around campus like mushrooms after a rainstorm, and the hateful rallies continued,鈥 says Kessler in the documentary.
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Brazen antisemitism was accepted at UW
Kessler says one of the most jarring things about the antisemitic activism on campus is just how brazen it was.
鈥淭he attack on the was crazy. The fact that students went and slashed her tires and graffitied her home and put pro Hamas symbols,鈥 Kessler told 鈥淭he Jason Rantz Show鈥 on KTTH.
鈥淎nd I think the craziest thing about that is that they posted the whole thing on Instagram and had an explicit threat,鈥 he added.
To make matters worse, Kessler says these events are still going on.
鈥淭here’s a student group on campus called 鈥楽UPER UW鈥 and they’re supposedly suspended. But even as recently as last week, they’re still holding events on campus.鈥
And don鈥檛 let these radicals fool into believing that they鈥檙e merely 鈥減ro-Palestinian鈥 and not pro-Hamas. Kessler says this student group once held an event that explicitly amplified terrorist propaganda.
鈥淭hey celebrate Leila Khaled who was a terrorist who was involved in hijackings. They platformed another terrorist and showed a video of him, somebody who was affiliated with a known terrorist group,鈥 said Kessler.
鈥淭hing that blew me away is one person in the crowd asked the person in charge how she responds when people bring up the violence of October 7, and people have to watch the video because you won’t believe how she responds so casually.鈥
Listen to the full conversation with Jason Kessler below.
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