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Faygie Holt

Faygie Holt

Faygie Holt is the columns editor and editor of the JNS Wire.

“This attack against religious adolescent girls is not an isolated incident but part of a trend in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Stamford Hill, which continues to experience violent anti-Semitism like New Yorkers are seeing Brooklyn, N.Y.,” said the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
“He threw me down, punched and kicked me in the face, then left and said, ‘That’s what you get for being a terrorist,’ ” said Matt Greenman of Westchester County in New York, who was already on crutches.
“We need a more visible police presence in at-risk neighborhoods, and need to build stronger educational frameworks and closer relationships with those in the broader community,” said Gideon Taylor, CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council-New York.
Thomas Develin posted a photo of himself holding a gun, saying: “I’m at a Jewish school and about to make it everyone’s problem.”
Unlike other events that are broader in scope and may be attended by people in different fields, MedEx is only for medical professionals who are planning to move to Israel in the next year or two.
It may mean asking someone what “settler colonialism” is or whether they can define a “Jewish lobby,” explains Jonah Cohen of CAMERA. “It can also mean prodding someone about why they believe a certain position they hold is true.”
Fabrice Labeau, deputy provost of student life and learning, has asked the leadership of the student senate “to take prompt and appropriate remedial action” regarding the measure. If they fail to do so, the university will “terminate” the agreement.
“When Jewish students feel they cannot express their support of the Jewish homeland, that’s unsafe,” says Jonah Fried, an international student in McGill’s Honors program and a CAMERA Fellow on Campus.
Steven Salaita is scheduled to be keynote speaker at the 2022 Graduate and Professional Student Senate Research Symposium; he was removed from his tenured position at the University of Illinois in 2014 after a series of anti-Semitic tweets were discovered.
The second-largest city in Ukraine has been the site of bombardments in the last few weeks.
Several principals have said they are beefing up educational programs on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. And while that’s a good first step, some feel more needs to be done.
Campaign Against Antisemitism survey also finds that 43% of British adults agree with at least one anti-Semitic statement posed to them by researchers.