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The Widener Library at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 7, 2007. Credit: Joseph Williams via Wikimedia Commons.

Harvard professors denounce university initiative on antisemitism

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Recent efforts by administrators to push back against overt displays of antisemitism at the leading Ivy League institute have inspired pushback of its own. A letter to Claudine Gay, Harvard’s president, co-signed by more than 100 Harvard faculty described...
Cooper Union in the East Village in Manhattan. Credit: DW labs Incorporated/Shutterstock.

Parents urge universities to do more to protect their children on campus

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A Jewish student’s nose broken at Tulane University in New Orleans. In Manhattan, Jewish students resorted to hiding in a Cooper Union library as anti-Israel protesters pounded on the door, and in New York state, Cornell University’s kosher...
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Yeshivah high schools ask college recruiters to prove campuses are safe

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Universities have allowed a “toxic ideology to fester” that “manifests as aggressive and overt antisemitism,” more than 30 heads of yeshivah high schools wrote in a letter earlier this month. The leaders added that “sometimes even...
A Benjamin Franklin statue in front of College Hall on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. Credit: Jay Yuan/Shutterstock.

Academic freedom isn’t an excuse for antisemitism

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We’re living in a time when American academic institutions claim to be dedicated to eradicating prejudice. That’s supposedly the point of the pledges to support the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) mantra that has...
T-shirts encouraging action. Credit: #EndJewHatred.

#EndJewHatred leads protest against CUNY

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The group #EndJewHatred held a rally outside the City University of New York’s (CUNY) chancellor’s office in Manhattan on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m., attended by approximately 150 people. “Jew-hatred has become systemic within the CUNY system, and...
Andre Lajst, head of the Brazil chapter of StandWithUs. Credit: Courtesy.

Anti-Israel activist breaks nose of Brazilian university rector

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Andreas Lajst, director of the Brazil chapter of StandWithUs, was to deliver a talk on Aug. 10 at the Federal University of Amazonas about the capacity of Israeli technology to aid isolated Brazilian populations. When...
Destiny Albritton (left), national outreach director of the Israel on Campus Coalition, moderates a panel on "Broadening the Base" at the ICC's National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. in Aug. 2023. Courtesy: ICC.

Israel on Campus Coalition summit in DC has its staff talking about the weather

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So much for the conspiracy theory of Jews controlling the weather. Some intending to go to the Israel on Campus Coalition National Leadership Summit this week had difficulty getting to Washington, due to intense storms and even...
A group of pro-Israel and Jewish supporters gathered outside a New York City Council hearing on growing anti-Semitism at CUNY schools, particularly the law school, on June 30, 2022. Credit: #EndJewHatred.

Look who’s in charge of protecting the Jews at CUNY

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In response to public outrage over the pervasive, systemic, years-long scandal of antisemitism at CUNY, the university formed its inaugural Advisory Council on Jewish Life. At first, Chancellor Matos Rodríguez refused the demands of Jewish faculty...
An anti-Israel protest in London in June 2021. Credit: Loredana Sangiuliano/Shutterstock.

Recognizing antisemitism

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The following remarks were delivered by Alyza D. Lewin, president of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, to the Knesset Committee on Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs on July 25,...
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2024 candidates mostly silent on bill to hold schools fiscally accountable for antisemitism

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A bill that Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) introduced late last month, H.R.3773, which now has 14 co-sponsors, aims to amend the 1965 Higher Education Act to bar colleges and universities that host antisemitic events from...