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Campus Antisemitism

“A lot of faculty are scared,” Jeffrey Blutinger, Jewish studies chair at California State University, Long Beach, told JNS.
James Milliken, president of the UC system, stated that the report summarized “some of the administration’s demands.”
The International March of the Living and the Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience at Rutgers University will present a webinar examining the history and lessons of this chapter in human history.
State lawmakers are “sending a strong and unambiguous message,” the co-chairs of the Jewish caucus stated.
The bill’s co-author told JNS that classrooms must be “welcoming, affirming, safe and supportive.”
“No academic event should, by design or effect, be exclusionary in nature, and the university will not sponsor an event that violates its policies,” university spokesperson Emily Gest told JNS.
U.S. President Donald Trump ordered flags at half mast to honor the founder of Turning Point USA, who was shot and killed at an event in Utah.
Yaron Ayalon says Fairfield University in Connecticut provides an alternative for the region’s Jewish students: “You don’t have to send your kids to the south, because there’s also a cost involved—a mental cost.”
The founder of Turning Point USA was speaking at Utah Valley University.
“Silence and inaction in the face of hate are no longer acceptable,” Steve Rosenberg, of the North American Values Institute, told JNS. “Unions must be safe for all members including Jews.”
The school in Philadelphia updated its code of conduct to prohibit “identity concealment” under recommendations from the Anti-Defamation League.
Andrea Lucas, of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, told a student paper that the commission won’t take “a single cent” itself.