Campus Antisemitism
“It undermines your confidence in so many ways, because you have a certain perception of your own community,” Rep. Sam Liccardo told JNS of the incident.
“Acts of hate may try to intimidate, but they will never define us—our Torah, our values and our unity will always be stronger,” Rabbi Kasriel Shemtov, executive director of Chabad Lubavitch of Michigan, told JNS.
Roger Feigelson, executive director of the Hillel, said “most of our programming supplies have been destroyed.”
Ben Shuldiner, the outgoing superintendent of the Lansing School District in Michigan, told JNS that deep-blue Seattle is a better political fit for him than somewhere like Kentucky.
“Silence” from the Ivy League school and the authorities “only amplifies these fears,” Nathan Miller, who runs a PR firm, told JNS.
The state’s silence calls “into question the state government’s commitment to combating the rising threat of antisemitism and other hate crimes in New York,” the congresswoman said.
“Antisemitism on the left is a well-known problem. ... Now what has been revealed is we have also a problem on the right.”
On Sunday morning, many hours after the shooting, authorities said that a person of interest was in custody.
The committee previously sent the private university a letter addressing “a series of deeply troubling antisemitic incidents” in March 2024.
The lecturer, Peyrin Kao, engaged in a hunger strike in support of Gaza and told students Israel was guilty of genocide.
Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of homeland security for public affairs, told JNS that visas are a “privilege, not a right, no matter what this or any other activist judicial ruling says.”
Jonathan Greenblatt, of the Anti-Defamation League, stated that the agreement is a “turning point” for Jews on campus.
