Job offers rescinded for college grads admitting activism in anti-Israel protests

WASHINGTON (TND) — Some college grads who admitted their activism during anti-Israel protests on campus now say they’ve had job offers rescinded.

3 in 10 say they lost a job offer, while 70% say they were asked about their protest history during the interview process.

Campus Reform Editor-in-Chief Zachary Marshall joined The National Desk’s Jan Jeffcoat to discuss the issue.

“This survey asked college graduates and college students who are applying for jobs while they’re still in school, Were you affected in your job search by saying that you were involved in the campus protests against Jewish students?” He said. “I was surprised the number is not higher than 30% of employers. Are we sending jobs from those people?”

52% of college students said that they felt they needed to tell their future employers what their politics are, according to the survey.

“I work in a newsroom and I am also a professor, personal politics have no place in the office and they barely have a place in the classroom when your classroom is supposed to be a place for everyone to learn and to tolerate differences,” Marshall said. “So this is something happening on college campuses where they’re making students think they need to tell people what their politics are. That is unacceptable.”