Tag: Academia
Manhattan prep school leader resigns after calling task force ‘power play by Jewish families’
A Manhattan private school that charges a yearly tuition of $63,400 has seen a change in leadership following overt efforts to fight antisemitism.
On Monday, head of school David Lourie announced plans to step down from his...
Lawsuit: Jews endure ‘pervasive ostracization’ at California College of Arts
Soon after Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in southern Israel, professors and students at California College of Arts trumpeted “Decolonization is not a dinner party,” alleges Karen Fiss, a professor at the San Francisco...
Protesters at Hebrew U call to ‘expel the occupier’
Around 100 students participated in an anti-Israel protest at the Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus campus in Jerusalem on Tuesday, waving PLO flags and chanting inflammatory slogans, according to Hebrew media reports.
Kan News shared video of...
Contingent of college students visits Israel to prepare for future activism
“There is another front to this war, and it’s happening right now in America.” This is according to Jason Diebner, a student at the University of Texas at Austin currently in Israel with two...
Lawsuit names WESPAC as ‘official fiscal sponsor’ of pro-Hamas protests
A report in The Washington Free Beacon links an activist foundation to Students for Justice in Palestine, the anti-Israel group fueling protests and anti-Jewish hate on college campuses across North America.
A lawsuit filed by some of the families...
Ontario passes bill requiring colleges to set guidelines against racism
Bill 166, the Strengthening Accountability and Student Supports Act, was approved in Ontario’s legislative assembly on May 14.
It states that colleges and universities in the Canadian province “shall have policies and rules that describe...
Martha Pollack, president of Cornell, to resign after intense campus protests
Martha E. Pollack, the president of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., has announced her plans to retire on June 30.
“It is only after extensive reflection that I have determined that this is the right decision,” she...
Poll shows Harvard faculty divided over severity of campus antisemitism
Harvard University’s student newspaper published research providing a snapshot of views held by professors at the Ivy League school on the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip after Oct. 7.
The annual Faculty of...
Behold the 21st-century boycott
Ha’aretz published a long and important article on April 12 that described an “unprecedented global boycott of Israeli academics.” Their report is based on a survey conducted in January by the Israel Young Academy, in which...
Harvard dean has a new book with a convicted terrorist murderer
Many Americans are shocked at the extreme level of anti-Jewish hate that has been revealed to exist at Harvard University and other elite schools since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in southern Israel.
It seems...