Campus Antisemitism
It’s also drawing applicants outside the school’s traditional base, including more women and students from outside the country.
Financial support comes from native Canadian Sylvan Adams, and researchers will partner with those at other leading institutions, including Tel Aviv University.
The law school’s dean, Erwin Chemerinsky, sent a letter to leaders of law student organizations calling out the BDS group’s anti-Semitism.
“When it comes to letting my Jewish pride show on campus, it definitely has reduced a lot. I felt very obligated to keep it to myself, to stay inside about it,” said Ofek Preis.
Ohio State student Alex Grosman said the program instructed the group “how to tackle anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism on campus while giving us the facts we need to know about Israel.”
The special report “failed to speak with a single Orthodox rabbinic leader ... and hid from its audience the predominant cause of the current crisis,” said Rabbi Moshe Parnes.
“The university needs to examine the legality of marginalizing other students, and at a bare minimum, issue a statement denouncing the targeting of Jewish students for their identity,” says Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, director of the AMCHA Initiative.
University president Carol Folt accepts recommendations on how to improve an ongoing issue the same day that Hillel finds one of its windows smashed.
The New Paltz Accountability club told a female student that Zionists were not welcome.
The role, mandated under the terms of a settlement agreement, is needed to protect Jewish students on campus, says a Jewish legal advocacy organization.
“To our martyr, Ibrahim Nablusi the Lion of Nablus, who was brutally murdered today by the Israeli Occupation Forces, rest high above,” stated the group on Instagram.
Already embroiled in controversy for accusations of anti-Semitism, the Brooklyn college had included a vocal supporter of BDS in its search committee for an assistant dean for diversity, equity and inclusion.
