Campus Antisemitism
The Canberra school admitted it failed to mitigate a “high risk of psychosocial harm” during aggressive pro-Palestinian encampments on campus.
“There’s some nexus between the real antisemitic Palestinian protesters and people who don’t study,” Simon Hankinson, of the Heritage Foundation, told JNS.
Steven Thrasher alleges that he was denied tenure as a result of his participation in pro-Hamas activities on campus post-Oct. 7.
Prosecutors said that fingerprint, surveillance footage and key-card records link the suspect to more than 20 threatening campus messages.
“Unless we eliminate the root cause of campus antisemitism, a change in leadership will act as a band-aid,” Brandy Shufutinsky, of FDD, told JNS.
Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin will serve as a point of contact for Jewish students, advise university leaders on combating antisemitism and help oversee compliance with Columbia’s agreement with the Trump administration.
The tenured Arabic professor alleges that the public university violated her rights over a viral video she says was taken out of context.
The four students filed an amended federal lawsuit the same day, arguing Florida International University violated their First Amendment rights by punishing “private, off-campus speech.”
“When someone uses the N-word on campus, no one thinks about free speech. No one talks about, ‘Let’s understand what they’re thinking. Let’s have a discussion,’” Rep. Randy Fine said. “But somehow when it came to Jews, everyone wanted to rediscover the idea of free speech.”
“Leadership should be responding with moral clarity, not suggesting that the act of teaching about the Holocaust has somehow ‘missed the mark,’” said Kurt Schwartz, CEO of CAMERA.
