A quarter of Jewish students said they had “been blamed during the past year for the actions of Israel because they were Jewish.”

The Canadian Jewish News reports.

Brandeis study finds anti-Semitism high on Canadian campuses

There are particularly high levels of hostility toward Jews or Israel on Canadian campuses, according to a new study about anti-Semitism at North American universities.

The Brandeis University report, which was released last week, was based on an online survey of more than 3,000 North American university students who had applied for, but not yet taken, a free, 10-day Birthright Israel trip.

One-third said they had been verbally harassed over the past year because they were Jewish, while almost three-quarters reported having been exposed to anti-Semitic statements, including the claim that Jews have too much power and that Israelis behave “like Nazis” toward Palestinians. A quarter of respondents said they had “been blamed during the past year for the actions of Israel because they were Jewish.”

The study also noted, however, that the prevalence of anti-Israel and/or anti-Semitic attitudes on campus did not diminish Jewish students’ feelings of connection to Israel. Although they viewed their campuses as hostile to Israel, two-thirds of students surveyed in the study said they felt connected to Israel. Those levels “are higher than those found among similar individuals in 2014, before the Israel-Hamas conflict,” the study found.