Tag: Schools & Higher Education
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...
NJ school ‘at best careless’ in missing photos of Jewish students, review finds
The omission of a photo of the Jewish Student Union in a yearbook at East Brunswick High School in New Jersey was “not purposeful, but rather was a highly unfortunate error,” an independent review of the...
New York and Maryland school districts face Title VI federal investigations
The U.S. Department of Education announced investigations into reports of alleged bigotry in violation of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act at the Commack School District in Commack, N.Y., and Dorchester County Public Schools...
Yes, Arab funding can have a nefarious impact on campus
As I wrote last week and in my report, Arab Funding of American Universities: Donors, Recipients, and Impact, it is challenging to link Arab funding to universities with the toxic atmosphere on campus for Jews. It is...