Campus Antisemitism
“This is something that needs to be addressed head-on,” Simon Cataldo, a state representative, told JNS. “It’s not going to get better on its own.”
“Trump has weaponized the Department of Justice to punish California,” the California Legislative Jewish Caucus and the state governor said.
Rabbi Levi Shemtov, who founded the GW Chabad, told JNS that the university hasn’t handled Jew-hatred well since Oct. 7 but is making improvements.
Iman Abdul, who was a paid canvasser for a Democratic state senator and had reported ties to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, faces charges including making a terror threat.
“It’s a stunning, insane story,” Lori Lowenthal Marcus, legal director of The Deborah Project, told JNS.
The “unique” plan is “a confident first step towards addressing what is a reemerging and longstanding prejudice,” Jason Miyares’s office told JNS.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security told JNS that the suit is “baseless” and “political.”
Daniel Mariaschin, CEO of B’nai B’rith International, told JNS that the university system president’s “bureaucratic statement is insufficient.”
Rory Lancman, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS that the decision is “significant” since it draws “some clear lines in the sand.”
The public school’s settlement with Students for Justice in Palestine “does nothing to protect the safety of Jewish students,” Eric Fusfield, of B’nai B’rith, told JNS.
The Trump administration said that it was opening an investigation after the Anti-Defamation League accused the district of “egregious and persistent discrimination and harassment.”
The businessman Stephen Levin told the school’s student paper that the university “did not respond in any way favorable to Jewish people or Israel.”
