Anti-Semitism, Liberalism and College Campuses

As our course moves into the most contemporary of American Jewish history/American Judaism, I felt compelled to share this disturbing story out of my very own Alma Mater, and out of the house I formerly called home:

Brown University is investigating anti-gay and anti-Semitic graffiti found in a campus building that houses a Jewish fraternity and a fraternity with many LGBTQ members.
President Christina Paxson in an email Friday to the Brown community said campus police will investigate the incident at Marcy House.
The graffiti was discovered early Friday morning scrawled across the house's walls.
A university spokesman tells the Providence Journal that Beta Rho Pi, a Jewish fraternity, and Zeta Delta Xi, a co-ed fraternity with many LGBTQ members, live in the house.
A speech by a writer and transgender advocate scheduled for March 21 at the Ivy League school had been canceled Wednesday amid controversy. An online petition accused the co-sponsor, Brown RISD Hillel, of defending "Israeli state's policies of occupation and racial apartheid.

For those who may not have heard, Beta Rho Pi is formerly Alpha Epsilon Pi, Beta Rho chapter, and my college fraternity. The undergraduate brothers disaffiliated from the national fraternity earlier this year. (That process and that story, in itself, could be a useful topic for further exploration with respect to the challenges of fraternities as uniquely American Jewish institutions...)

It seems ironic, though, that only months after the local chapter leaves the national fraternity, an incident like this occurs which would ordinarily be an opportunity for the national institution to thrive and support the local chapter.

The ABC news/AP piece quoted above mentions the controversy about a trans advocate who had been slated to speak at Hillel. Here is some more information about that component of the story (passed along to me by none other than my mom :) )

Ultimately, besides making me very sad to hear such troubling stories, all of this makes me wonder in what ways the Jewish community's history of "stifling dissent" around Israel (see Diner, 327) may still be contributing to some of the resurgent left-wing anti-semitism that we see in the BDS movement and on college campuses. How do we move forward?