Tag: Schools & Higher Education
‘As if my home turf no longer mine,’ students tell senators about school Jew-hatred
Sens. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.), co-founders and co-chairs of the Senate Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, heard about Jew-hatred on campus from Columbia University, University of Oregon, University of Oklahoma, Rutgers University, George...
California school district violated Title VI by failing to address antisemitism
A California school system failed to follow the 1964 Civil Rights Act by not protecting Jewish students from antisemitism, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
That office announced on Friday that...
Senate bill would beef up Title VI probes of alleged school biases
Four Republican senators introduced the Restoring Civility on Campus Act, which calls on the U.S. Department of Education to immediately investigate alleged school violations of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act barring discrimination based...
Anti-Israel resolutions on docket for US teachers union
At its upcoming convention in Houston, which begins on July 22, the American Federation of Teachers plans to vote on several anti-Israel resolutions, including those that oppose “weaponization” of Jew-hatred, and advocate divestment from...
Jewish student vets denied freedom they fought to protect, congressman says
Eight decades after the G.I. Bill passed in 1944, veterans are “being denied the very religious freedoms on college campuses they fought to protect,” Rep. Mike Bost (R-Ill.), chair for the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs,...
How to help Jewish children around the world be safer at school
While we all watched in horror the anti-Israel, anti-Jewish protests on campuses across America, communal leaders found themselves befuddled about viable solutions: Do we fight back? Encourage students to run away? Confront the aggressors,...
Columbia removes three deans who mocked campus Jew-hatred event
Columbia University announced on Monday that it “permanently removed” three senior administrators who mocked concerns about Jew-hatred on campus.
Minouche Shafik, the Ivy League school’s president, wrote that the text message exchanges were “very troubling.”
“This...
Biden admin closes probe of Brown, after school seemed to overlook bias, including Jew-hatred
The U.S. Department of Education announced on Monday that it came to an agreement with Brown University to close its investigation of the Ivy League school for allegedly turning a blind eye to bias, including Jew-hatred,...
University of Minnesota overtaken by ‘radical, pro-Hamas activists,’ House majority whip says
The University of Minnesota, a highly ranked public school in Minneapolis, allowed itself to be overrun by “radical, pro-Hamas activists” and is “on record endorsing a concept that has been used to justify terrorism and the...
StandWithUs objects to agreement made with protesters at Northwestern
A leading pro-Israel campus group sent correspondence to the trustees of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., urging the cancellation of what it calls an unlawful agreement administrators made with anti-Israel demonstrators.
StandWithUS dispatched a legal letter on Monday written...