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‘ABC News’ hires an Israel-basher from Harvard

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ABC News recently hired a new reporter to write about politics, including U.S. policy towards Israel: a Harvard University student journalist who has accused Israel of “atrocities” and who has praised the pro-Hamas protesters on...

Two-thirds of Texans support school vouchers, survey suggests

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Roughly two-thirds of adult Texans support school vouchers, which lets parents choose if tax dollars allocated for their children pay for public or private school, according to a new survey conducted by the public affairs schools...

‘As if my home turf no longer mine,’ students tell senators about school Jew-hatred

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,...