Tag: Colleges & Universities
Some 200 anti-Israel activists force evacuation of Berkeley event
Some 200 people protested violently outside an event with a former Israel Defense Forces soldier at the University of California, Berkeley on Monday night, forcing Jewish students at the event to evacuate.
Anti-Israel students banged...
New policy at Barnard bans decorations on dorm-room doors
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...
Four colleges in Norway suspend ties with Israeli ones, blaming IDF actions
Four academic institutions in Norway have suspended collaborations with universities in Israel, a development that has direct support from the Palestinian BDS National Committee.
Oslo Metropolitan University has severed connections with Haifa University, saying it would not partner with...
Professor leaves MIT ‘dream job’ for Yeshiva due to Jew-hatred
After quitting his “dream job” at Massachusetts Institute of Technology due to antisemitism on campus, Mauricio Karchmer is fitting in at his new job at Yeshiva University.
The computer scientist has, in his first two...
‘Campus Reform’: Indiana University under Title VI probe for Jew-hatred
Indiana University-Bloomington, a 204-year-old institution which U.S. News & World Report ranks among the nation's top 75 universities and top 35 public schools, is under investigation for Jew-hatred under Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
The...
Billionaire donor Kenneth Griffin ‘not interested’ in supporting Harvard
"The real question is will America's—and I'm gonna choose a word here carefully—America's elite university get back to the roots of educating American children, young adults, to be the future leaders of our country,...
House committee pushes Harvard to provide more materials on antisemitism
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...
Holocaust scholar tapped to be first director of NYU’s new antisemitism center
New York University launched a brand-new Center for the Study of Antisemitism in November after receiving two $1 million gifts, the most recent one anonymously. Now it has named professor Avinoam Patt as its director.
He has also been...
Defeat campus antisemitism with education
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...
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...