The media are filled with news about anti-Israel and antisemitic activism, including violence, on American college campuses. However, according to Lori Lowenthal Marcus, legal director of The Deborah Project, “what’s at least as important is the indoctrination of pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12, starting before they’re five years old.” 

The Deborah Project (TDP) is a public interest law firm dedicated since 2016 to protecting Jewish civil rights in the American educational system.

Interviewed by JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin at the inaugural JNS International Policy Conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Jerusalem on April 28, Lowenthal Marcus called “woke and leftist ideology” a “huge factor” in antisemitism on US campuses and in schools, starting at a very young age.