Campus Antisemitism
The data “lays bare the daily reality for Jewish students,” according to the Israel on Campus Coalition.
The column “echoes” Austria in the 1930s, reaching toward a “moral crusade that will take Jews as some of its victims,” Rabbi Jason Rubenstein said.
Matthew Mainen, of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, told JNS that a statute typically invoked for workplace discrimination should also be applied to Jewish students.
“This symbolic resolution fosters hate and division rather than the open exchange of ideas that should define our university,” Ari Israel, of Maryland Hillel, told JNS.
Linda McMahon, the U.S. secretary of education, stated that it was “another transformative commitment from an Ivy League institution to end divisive DEl policies.”
“I see my role as the conductor in an orchestra,” Cassen told JNS. “Each instrumental section has its own score, but what I can do is improve coordination.”
Denise Katz-Prober, of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, told JNS that the school’s internal grievance process was weaponized against Jewish students.
The Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island said that the investigation and the superintendent’s leave are a “significant step.”
A spokeswoman told JNS that the organization is now on disciplinary probation.
“Things have gotten better, but no thanks to the ‘Cornell Daily Sun,’” student columnist Ezra Galperin told JNS.
Eliana Birman, a sophomore at Barnard College, told JNS that “we know what it’s like to have to fight with both facts and emotion.”
Anyone who violated the district’s student conduct rules “will be held accountable for their actions,” Fairfax County Public Schools told JNS.
