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| Survey: 83% of Jewish US college students have experienced antisemitism since Oct. 7 [IsraelTimes] Poll by ADL and Hillel International finds two-thirds of Jewish students not confident in their universities’ abilities to prevent antisemitism on campus. Published on Thursday, the survey found that two-thirds (66%) of Jewish students and 60% of non-Jewish students said they were not confident in their university’s ability to prevent antisemitic incidents. Jewish professor quits Columbia, citing ‘systematic’ anti-Israel bias on campus Prof. Avi Friedman, award-winning business school instructor, lashes NY university for having anti-Zionist activist professor Joseph Massad, who celebrated the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, teach a class on Israel. Massad received tenure from Columbia in 1999 and has long taught about Israel and the Middle East. His Israel course, called “Palestinian and Israeli Politics and Societies,” drew widespread criticism ahead of the spring semester this year. Another professor, Lawrence Rosenblatt, said in December he was resigning due to the course. Days later, Columbia released a statement saying Massad’s comments about the Hamas attack “created pain for many in our community and contributed to the deep controversy on our campus.” Friedman added that Columbia’s role as an “epicenter of the intifada movement” in the US was not an accident, but resulted from “years of institutional cultivation.” (One of the student protest leaders who said “Zionists don’t deserve to live” claimed in a recent court filing that the statement was partially based on university reading material.) US Justice Department launches task force aimed at combating campus antisemitism [IsraelTimes] The US Justice Department on Monday announced a task force to combat antisemitism at schools and colleges, the latest move by the Trump administration to crack down on anti-Jewish discrimination on campuses. The task force will include officials from the Department of Justice, Department of Education, and Department of Health and Human Services, the Justice Department said in a statement. The group will be led by Leo Terrell, senior counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights. Trump administration opens antisemitism probes into 5 colleges, including Columbia [IsraelTimes] US Department of Education investigating Columbia, UC Berkeley, Northwestern, University of Minnesota, and Portland State University, says it’s putting all schools ‘on notice’ [X]
At Trump’s direction, US medical schools to be investigated for antisemitism [IsraelTimes] Department of Health and Human Services to probe Harvard, Columbia, Brown and Johns Hopkins universities for Title VI ‘reports of antisemitic incidents during their 2024 commencement ceremonies’ Federal judge tells private NYC college told it must face antisemitism lawsuit from Jewish students under Title VI [IsraelTimes] Jewish students have accused Cooper Union of failing to come to their aid when they locked themselves in a library out of fear during an anti-Israel protest in Oct. 2023. Georgetown University Law student group to host speaker linked to Israeli teen’s killing The university’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter will host Ribhi Karajah, a member of the U.S.-designated terrorist group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, on Feb. 11, Jewish Insider reported. The “former Palestinian political prisoner” will give a talk on “arrest, detention, and torture in the Israeli military system,” according to an Instagram post by LSJP. Yale Jewish students kicked out of own center during pro-Palestinian protest. [CollegeFix] Yalies4Palestine (Yale’s SJP) protest took place during closed-door talk by former Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett on January 21st.
Wesleyan SJP group hosts "Anti-Zionist" Tu Bishvat, Israeli Arbor Day [ToniAiraksinen] Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the elite Wesleyan University are hosting a Tu B'Shvat Seder for the [anti-Israel] community to rally around. Notably, the event has the approval of the school’s Office of Religious and Spiritual Life as it is giving the students space to host their seder. The event was coordinated with a shadowy group called “Beyond Empire” which claims to be founded by Wesleyan University students, according to their Instagram page. Tu B’Shvat (the 15th of the month of Shvat, roughly February) is an agricultural holiday marking the best time to plant food trees in Israel. It refers back the commandment in Leviticus 19:23 about when trees in ancient Israel might first be harvested. Without the Jewish-Israel connection it has no meaning. Bowdoin College disciplines SJP students after pro-Palestine encampment violates policies [CampusReform] A Justice in Palestine chapter recently hosted an encampment at Bowdoin College, for which various protesters were immediately disciplined, with some receiving suspensions. The SJP group posted to Instagram on Monday following the announcement of the suspensions, condemning the school and blaming it for the 'weaponization of a disciplinary process.' |
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