Tag: Campus Antisemitism
Poll shows Harvard faculty divided over severity of campus antisemitism
Harvard University’s student newspaper published research providing a snapshot of views held by professors at the Ivy League school on the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip after Oct. 7.
The annual Faculty of...
Police arrest anti-Israel activists on Emory campus, including faculty members
Gregory L. Fenves, president of Emory University in Atlanta, released a statement on Friday about campus protests the day before that resulted in 28 arrests, placing the blame on outside agitators for a demonstration that ended...
House Appropriations Committee member warns schools about inaction on Jew-hatred
Rep. Susie Lee (D-Nev.), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, issued a statement on Tuesday about the “sharp increase in antisemitism on college campuses nationwide.”
“I respect the right to assemble and free speech....
Where Sesame and Arab Streets meet
As college students settle into this semester’s final exams and seniors contemplate graduation, far too many have squandered their studies for death dirges like this:
“Hateful Days, sweeping those Jews away,
On our way to where...
Columbia’s war on Jewish speech
A recent incident at Columbia University sheds light on the insidious tactics employed by universities to stifle dissenting voices, especially Jewish voices. The administration’s actions regarding a Hasbara Fellowships speech I recently delivered revealed...
ADL to Rep. Ilhan Omar: Apologize for ‘blood libel’
The head of the Anti-Defamation League on Saturday called on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) to apologize after she accused some Jewish students of being “pro-genocide” in a statement on antisemitism.
“It is patently false and...
Israeli archaeologists in Jerusalem recently found a 2,000-year-old clay token that was used in...
Ideas that reduce complex problems into simple mantras are always popular. But those that cloak a political ideology in the sort of language and symbolism in sync with the cultural fashions of the moment and...
‘What I said was wrong,’ says Columbia protest leader who said Zionists don’t deserve...
A Columbia University student and a leader of the antisemitic protests on campus is seeking to provide “context” to a statement he made that Zionists don’t deserve to live.
“Zionists don’t deserve to live,” Khymani James said....
US Holocaust museum: Jewish students ‘face blatant antisemitism, intimidation and violence’
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a statement on Monday condemning what it described as a “shocking eruption of antisemitism on many American college and university campuses.”
Since the Hamas terrorist attacks on Oct. 7 that resulted in...
Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas. Period,’ governor says
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wrote on Wednesday about arrests that state troopers and riot police made of anti-Israel protesters at the University of Texas at Austin, one of the largest and top-ranked public universities in the...