Tag: Campus Antisemitism
Harvard antisemitism task force co-chair minimized Jew-hatred at school, said Israel ‘apartheid’
On Friday, Harvard University announced twin presidential task forces: one on antisemitism and one on Islamophobia. “Reports of antisemitic and Islamophobic acts on our campus have grown, and the sense of belonging among these groups has...
There’s no middle ground in the fight against DEI antisemitism
Claudine Gay resigned as president of Harvard University but as she conceded defeat in her battle to hold onto her post, she further poisoned public discourse about the controversy that undid her. In a New York Times op-ed,...
Jewish students at the University of Maryland ‘watching our backs a lot’
National discussions about campus antisemitism since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas in Israel have largely overlooked one of the nation’s largest Jewish student populations: the University of Maryland, College Park.
The 1,340-acre campus,...
Harvard University president Claudine Gay expected to resign in wake of dual controversies
Harvard University president Claudine Gay is expected to resign on Tuesday, The Boston Globe reported.
Gay has been embroiled in dual controversies over her response to campus antisemitism at Harvard University in the wake of Hamas’s Oct....
Harvard a synonym for antisemitism, says Diaspora minister
Harvard University has become synonymous with antisemitism, and to a total moral collapse of core basic academic values that is spreading like wildfire on American campuses, Israel’s minister for Diaspora affairs said Thursday.
The remarks...
Penn ‘failed to take concrete action’ on Jew-hatred, state governor says
The recent resignation of University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill and board chair Scott Bok has thrown Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro “into a national debate over when constitutionally protected speech veers into impermissible hate speech,” The Wall...
Report: Antisemitism varies widely on American college campuses
The Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., has released research revealing the most antisemitic academic institutions in America according to surveyed students. It comes in the context...
Campus Jewish life requires education reform
Does a mob calling for the genocide of the Jews constitute harassment? Maybe, maybe not. It’s complicated. At least, that’s what the presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania told a stunned...
Something very wrong from the top on down
There is a deep, distressing and rapidly metastasizing rot within American society. And it was profoundly on display last week at the hearing on the House Committee on Education & the Workforce.
Harvard president Claudine...
Brandeis publishes author who claims Israel practices mass rape
A radical historian who claims Israel practices mass rape of Palestinian Arabs is one of the contributors to a book that has just been published by Brandeis University Press. And this just as anti-Israel extremists are...