Tag: Campus Antisemitism
Alumni group condemns anti-Israel comments by Rutgers University clubs
An organization representing more than 10,000 alumni around the United States has denounced a recent anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statement by Rutgers University’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the group Rutgers Mutual Aid,...
BDS-proof: Insider tips for helping students on campus feel secure and empowered
Just because most colleges and universities have been on at least a partial pandemic shut down this past year doesn’t mean that BDS forces have lost any of their vitriol.
Or that they’ve given up...
Watchdog concerned over UNC professor who accused Israel of murder
The Jewish watchdog group StandWithUs called on the University of North Carolina to take action regarding a recurring class on Israel to be taught in the fall by an anti-Israel activist.
Kylie Broderick, a Ph.D....
Jewish advocates warn that pro-Israel college students to face aggression on campus
A number of Jewish groups have significant concerns about how Israel’s conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip this spring will correlate into anti-Jewish sentiment on North American college campuses as the fall semester...
On ever more hostile campuses, CAMERA teaches strategies to combat anti-Israel hate
Dozens of college students from the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel and elsewhere gathered online for the annual CAMERA on Campus conference aimed at empowering young adults to be advocates for Israel in...
50 CUNY professors leave faculty union over anti-Israel resolution
A substantial number of professors from the City University of New York (CUNY) have resigned from their faculty union after it passed an anti-Israel resolution and said it would consider supporting the BDS movement.
The...
Shield of David program battles anti-Semitism through Krav Maga and education
Cameron Kholos, a Jewish student at the University of Colorado Boulder, had been taking martial arts for more than 10 years and wanted to teach other Jewish students self-defense.
“I was really into Krav Maga,”...
Congressman urges Rutgers University president to speak out against anti-Israel rhetoric by union
Expressing concern for Jewish students at Rutgers University who may be targeted for anti-Semitic attacks after a union of part-time lecturers at the university singled out Israel in a recent statement, Rep. Josh Gottheimer...
Harvard petition supporting Israel, Jewish community gets hundreds of signatures
More than 900 Harvard University students, faculty members and affiliates have signed a petition “in support of Israel and the Jewish community.”
The “Harvard Israel Initiative,” which as of Tuesday afternoon had garnered 905 signatures and counting,...
‘Energized and inspired’: After a year away, Birthright returns to Israel at a critical...
They’re baaaaack!
If you’re in Israel this month, you can’t miss the clusters of them downing falafel on Jerusalem’s Ben-Yehuda Street, cooling off in the Dead Sea, climbing Masada at sunrise or slipping prayers between...