Tag: Campus Antisemitism
UNC to allow anti-Israel professor to teach class on Israel-Palestinian conflict
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is moving forward with a controversial class in the fall semester that is being taught by an anti-Israel professor despite concerns from Jewish and pro-Israel groups.
Kylie...
New report finds ‘disturbing’ levels of anti-Semitic activity at University of Illinois Chicago
Last week, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) welcomed students back to campus. But how welcome can the university’s Jewish population feel sharing a campus with a student group whose members have a long history...
Spanish university cancels course comparing Gaza to Auschwitz
A university in Spain canceled a course that would have examined comparisons between the Auschwitz concentration camp and the Gaza Strip after facing backlash from a local pro-Israel group.
The University of Santiago de Compostela’s...
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,”...