Tag: Academia
Yale antisemitism program names inaugural managing director
Scholar and author Linda Maizels has joined the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism as its inaugural managing director, the university announced on Monday.
“We are so fortunate to have hired someone like Linda, who, first...
Trump’s war on woke universities is essential to fighting antisemitism
In demonstrations at Columbia University and Trump Tower in New York City, as well as on the op-ed pages of liberal newspapers and websites, leftist anti-Zionists headed to the barricades this past week, both...
Education Department issues warning to 60 universities under probes for alleged Jew-hatred
The U.S. Department of Education sent notices to 60 colleges on Monday warning that they could face consequences if they fail to meet their obligations, under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, to protect...
‘We just didn’t matter,’ Jewish students say of alleged antisemitism at California schools
The Anti-Defamation League, Jewish on Campus, StandWithUs and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law filed complaints earlier this month with the U.S. Department of Education alleging that three California schools—Scripps College, Etiwanda...
Academic apologism: How universities are rationalizing terror
Institutions of higher education have long been perceived as bastions of critical thinking and rigorous debate. Yet recent incidents throughout the United Kingdom suggest that some educators may be exploiting their platforms to rationalize...
Harvard settles lawsuits, adopts IHRA definition of Jew-hatred
Harvard University has resolved two federal lawsuits alleging antisemitic discrimination on campus with the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education.
As part of the agreement,...
‘Scholasticide’ slur is another reason why Trump should defund antisemitic institutions
The vocabulary of contemporary antisemitism is somewhat limited. It lacks not only the facts that might justify their steady stream of invective and false accusations against the State of Israel and the Jewish people....
America’s future depends on Trump’s promise to punish woke universities
Occidental College seemingly waved the white flag last week in its efforts to defend itself against charges of tolerating antisemitism on its Los Angeles campus. The school agreed to a “sweeping settlement” with the Anti-Defamation League...
Beware distinguished professors rewriting history
What are the reasons why 140,000 Jews living in the storied 2,600-year-old Babylonian community—the oldest Jewish diaspora—have dwindled to just three people? The vast majority of the community left between 1950 and 1951 after...
House leaders demand 10 elite colleges detail plans to counter campus Jew-hate
The heads of the Education and the Workforce Committee, and the Ways and Means Committee have called on administrators at 10 top colleges to provide detailed plans to prevent bigotry and intimidation against Jewish students seen...