Tag: Campus Antisemitism
Lawfare Project threatens to sue UC Berkeley to ensure safety of Jewish students
Following a set of distressing events at the University of California, Berkeley, The Lawfare Project has sent a letter to Chancellor Carol Christ calling on the university to act to ensure Jewish students feel...
After six-hour debate, University of Illinois student government passes BDS resolution
After more than six hours of deliberation, the student government at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) passed a BDS resolution in the early hours on Thursday morning that calls on the university...
ADL: Incidents of white supremacist propaganda distribution doubled in 2019
White-supremacist propaganda distribution more than doubled in 2019 over the previous year, making it the highest year on record for such activity in the United States, according to new data released on Wednesday by the Anti-Defamation...
Hillel in a new decade: Meeting young Jews where they are in 2020 and...
Hillel International announced Adam Lehman last week as its new president and CEO.
Lehman, who has held the interim CEO position since July 2019, previously served as the organization’s chief operating officer for four years....
US Education Department investigating UCLA over anti-Semitism complaint
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) notified StandWithUs (SWU) on Friday that it has accepted its complaint alleging that UCLA violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and has opened the matter for full investigation on the merits.
SWU alleged...
The executive order that defines and combats anti-Semitism without stifling speech
Is it anti-Semitism to support the destruction of the one and only Jewish nation-state—home to approximately half of the Jews in the world today? Is it anti-Semitism to say that Jews do not have...
The ugly truth about BDS and campus anti-Semitism
In the week since President Donald Trump’s signing of an executive order about enforcing Title VI protections of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to Jewish students subjected to anti-Semitism on college campuses, efforts to...
New report exposes how BDS movement uses veil of social justice to spread Jew-hatred
With anti-Semitism on the rise in the United States and across the world, a new report has just been released that seeks to highlight how the delegitimization campaign against Israel is fueling such incidents.
“The New Anti-Semites:...
Trump’s anti-Semitism order is a Rorschach test for Jews
Demographers have spent a great deal of time in recent decades trying to learn more about the changing demographics of American Jewry. But whatever else he has accomplished, President Donald Trump has, albeit unwittingly,...
Trump to sign executive order addressing anti-Semitism in US education, particularly on campus
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Wednesday addressing anti-Semitism amid the rise in hatred towards Jews in education in the United States, announced the White House in a...