Tag: Campus Antisemitism
‘We just didn’t matter,’ Jewish students say of alleged antisemitism at California schools
The Anti-Defamation League, Jewish on Campus, StandWithUs and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law filed complaints earlier this month with the U.S. Department of Education alleging that three California schools—Scripps College, Etiwanda...
Citing Jew-hatred, Trump admin axes $400 million in federal funding to Columbia
The Trump administration announced on Friday that it canceled about $400 million worth of contracts with and grants to Columbia University, citing what it said is the public school's inaction in the face of...
Academic apologism: How universities are rationalizing terror
Institutions of higher education have long been perceived as bastions of critical thinking and rigorous debate. Yet recent incidents throughout the United Kingdom suggest that some educators may be exploiting their platforms to rationalize...
Harvard settles lawsuits, adopts IHRA definition of Jew-hatred
Harvard University has resolved two federal lawsuits alleging antisemitic discrimination on campus with the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education.
As part of the agreement,...
‘Scholasticide’ slur is another reason why Trump should defund antisemitic institutions
The vocabulary of contemporary antisemitism is somewhat limited. It lacks not only the facts that might justify their steady stream of invective and false accusations against the State of Israel and the Jewish people....
Educational malpractice and antisemitism resurgence in our schools
Ted and Nancy Sizer, giants in educational thought and practice, famously wrote The Students Are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract, which inextricably links what happens in our classrooms with what happens in our society....
Harvard’s chaplain slanders Israel
Alexander (“Shabbos”) Kestenbaum, the Jewish student activist at Harvard University who gained national prominence for speaking at the Republican convention in July, recently shared how the chaplains at Harvard are falling Jewish students.
On Nov....
America’s future depends on Trump’s promise to punish woke universities
Occidental College seemingly waved the white flag last week in its efforts to defend itself against charges of tolerating antisemitism on its Los Angeles campus. The school agreed to a “sweeping settlement” with the Anti-Defamation League...
The Pessin Affair
Salem on the Thames: Moral Panic, Anti-Zionism, and the Triumph of Hate Speech at Connecticut College. Richard Landes. Published by Academic Studies Press, 2020. 32.95 pp.218
At Connecticut College, in the Spring of 2015, Andrew...
Is Brandeis University being ‘Palestinized?’
Why is the Israel Studies Center at Brandeis University describing the Hamas war against Israel merely as the “suffering of Israelis and Palestinians?” Why is the center boasting that it “brings Palestinian scholars” to...