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‘Failure to protect Jewish students, faculty’: House committee asks for Berkeley documents

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Citing a “violent riot” targeting Jews and “numerous antisemitic incidents” on the University of California, Berkeley campus, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), chairwoman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, wrote to the public...

Columbia university president to testify about campus antisemitism

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Nemat (“Minouche”) Shafik, the president of Columbia University in New York City, escaped the grilling that the leaders of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania endured when speaking...

US government investigating NY, MA school districts, Eastern Washington University

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The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced Title VI investigations on Tuesday of Seekonk Public Schools (Mass.), Yonkers Public Schools (N.Y.) and Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Wash. The department doesn’t announce...

New policy at Barnard bans decorations on dorm-room doors

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Students attending New York City’s Barnard College will need to find ways to express themselves other than affixing photos or messages on the doors of their dormitories. Leslie Grinage, the school’s dean, sent out a letter on...

Pro-Palestinian student groups, faculty at Harvard share antisemitic images

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Harvard University has vowed to investigate after two student activist groups, as well as a sympathetic faculty group, shared an image from more than 50 years ago that promoted multiple antisemitic tropes. The image comes...

Leeds University’s Jewish chaplain moved off campus following threats

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Security measures are being ramped up at the University of Leeds in the city of West Yorkshire in northern England following threats directed at a Jewish chaplain. “Free Palestine” graffiti was also painted on...

Antisemitic protest block Dublin library, home to ‘Book of Kells’

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Anti-Israel protesters outside the Library of Trinity College Dublin, home to one of the most important manuscripts in the world, temporarily closed down the building as they called for the Irish university to boycott...
Memorial Church at Harvard University. Source: 365 Focus Photography/Shutterstock

House committee pushes Harvard to provide more materials on antisemitism

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The U.S. House of Representatives could intensify efforts to discover the scope of the Harvard University administration’s actions to address students grappling with antisemitism. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), who serves as chair for the House...
U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) speaks during a Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. Photo by Lev Radin/Shutterstock.

Defund Israel X account, Jewish babies with ‘pure bloodlines,’ Bowman loses ‘J Street’ endorsement

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Brent Wood, 33, of Toledo, Ohio, who allegedly attacked two Jews outside Kesher Israel, an Orthodox congregation in Washington, was a no-show in D.C. Superior Court. The Toronto Police Service announced the arrest of Ian Locke, 40, who allegedly vandalized the...
An anti-Israel protest at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Photo by Rachel Cook.

Defeat campus antisemitism with education

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What can be done to combat and defeat antisemitism on North American college campuses? It is daunting to come up with a concrete plan for doing so, especially when antisemitism is surging amid the...