The White House has said it is taking steps to counter an “alarming” rise in anti-Semitic incidents at schools and colleges since the Oct 7.

The husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, Douglas Emhoff, will host a meeting today with leaders of major Jewish organizations, to discuss its action, AFP quoted a White House official as saying.

The official said the administration was “taking multiple actions to address the alarming rise of reported anti-Semitic incidents at schools and on college campuses, since the October 7th Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel.”

US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and other officials will visit an educational institution and hold a roundtable with Jewish students later in the week, the official added.

The White House said the Justice and Homeland Security Departments had also been in touch with universities on the subject.

At Harvard, Stanford and New York University (NYU), bitter clashes involving students, professors and administrators have blown up into viral debates on social media.