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“The perpetrators of antisemitism on Columbia’s campus have not been disciplined,” two business professors at the university told JNS.
The U.S. education secretary wrote that he is “deeply concerned” about “repeated reports of antisemitic and anti-Israeli, anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, and anti-Palestinian harassment on our campuses and in our communities.”
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Pasadena, Calif., is hearing oral arguments in “Loffman v. California Department of Education.”
Four of the Title VI probes for alleged discrimination for “shared ancestry” center on the City University of New York.
The ADL, StandWithUs, the Brandeis Center and the ZOA blasted the administration’s capitulation to anti-Israel student activists.
Jason Holtzman of the local Jewish Community Relations Council told JNS that people should “speak out to show that there is zero tolerance for these behaviors and actions.”
Michael Rosenzweig, a new member of the board of directors at the Democratic Majority for Israel, told JNS about his views on rising antisemitism in academia, particularly at his alma mater.
It detailed incidents of ethnic slurs, swastika vandalism and pro-Hamas teachers, ringing the alarm bell about the threat to Jewish students.
Too little is known about antisemitism’s transnational nature “and a detailed comparison between European countries is not possible,” said a founding member of the group.
The university’s scheduled student speaker has posted antisemitic content on social media, the End Jew Hatred Movement says.
“Enough is enough,” Michelle Ahdoot, the group’s director of programming and strategy, told JNS.
“I feel blessed that God was behind me to give me a push in this direction,” said hip-hop singer Moshe Reuven Sheradsky.