Tag: Jewish students
Pro-Palestinian student groups, faculty at Harvard share antisemitic images
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Family in Reserves
A basic aspect of life in Israel is the requirement that every adult, whether male or female, must serve in the IDF for a few years upon reaching the age of 18. While serving...
Parents urge universities to do more to protect their children on campus
A Jewish student’s nose broken at Tulane University in New Orleans. In Manhattan, Jewish students resorted to hiding in a Cooper Union library as anti-Israel protesters pounded on the door, and in New York state, Cornell University’s kosher...
Yeshivah high schools ask college recruiters to prove campuses are safe
Universities have allowed a “toxic ideology to fester” that “manifests as aggressive and overt antisemitism,” more than 30 heads of yeshivah high schools wrote in a letter earlier this month. The leaders added that “sometimes even...