Campus Antisemitism
“This is a terrible error in judgment on the part of the governor,” said Tom Horne. “This bill should have been signed into law.”
The Chabad House on campus sued the city of Cambridge for denying its request to connect its buildings.
A new survey that documents Jew-hatred at Columbia University is “difficult to read,” according to Claire Shipman, the school’s acting president.
“It is highly unusual to be seeking detention of a petitioner given the factual record of today,” U.S. District Court Judge Michael Farbiarz stated.
The Republican congressmen are urging the school to choose a candidate who will “continue standing for what’s right—especially in the wake of a terrifying rise of antisemitic rhetoric on college campuses.”
“The word you are looking for is ‘Israeli,’” stated David Jacobs, a member of the public school’s governing council.
Eliyahu Itkowitz told JNS he started handing out a copy of an Alan Dershowitz book “after passing repeated anti-Israel demonstrations by the Muslim Students Association on my way to class.”
“It’s all open-source information that we have seen,” the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy told JNS. “Just imagine what we couldn’t find.”
The agitator is being held on immigration fraud charges, although the Trump administration has also said he is a national security threat.
“I’ve seen too many students, faculty members and staff in absolute anguish,” Claire Shipman said.
“Khalil’s career and reputation are being damaged and his speech is being chilled, and this adds up to irreparable harm,” the judge wrote.
The committee is “concerned about the role of administrators and faculty in potentially contributing” to an anti-Jewish environment on campus, it said.
