Campus Antisemitism
The head of the federal Jew-hatred task force confirmed pending litigation in a “Fox News” interview, after telling JNS about it earlier in the week.
“They’re taking people from areas of the world that are very radicalized, and we don’t want them making trouble in our country,” U.S. President Donald Trump said.
Lawrence Summers noted that a school dean “treats the Holocaust and the Nakba in parallel in her major address” and supported “a commencement marshal convicted of harassing an Israeli student.”
Hostile crowd at Beersheva conference shouts down the Democrats leader Yair Golan.
“That’s something that has not been discussed publicly. It would have to be leaked material if it exists,” the U.S. State Department spokeswoman said of a reported cable.
“We hope this investigation will force Cal Poly to stop sweeping antisemitism under the rug,” stated Kenneth Marcus, chairman of the Brandeis Center.
The action is in part due to the Ivy League school’s inaction to crack down on campus antisemitism and “race discrimination” in its admissions process, the U.S. General Services Administration wrote.
‘False’ fears, Leo Terrell tells JNS of view Trump is too aggressive against schools over Jew-hatred
The chair of the federal task force against Jew-hatred said that “the previous four years, they did nothing to stop the harassment on these college campuses.”
The group called the omission “fake history” and compared it to ignoring 9/11 or Pearl Harbor in accounts of those attacks.
“The Trump administration is committed to restoring common sense to our student visa system,” the U.S. Department of Homeland Security told JNS. “No lawsuit, this or any other, is going to change that.”
“This whole boycotting of political figures, which is clearly one-sided, speaks to a larger problem we are seeing in our country,” a graduate told JNS. “People are too invested in politics and in which ‘side’ they are on.”
“Columbia University cannot continue to act with deliberate indifference to the hostile environment created by its own students and faculty,” Anthony Archeval, of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, told JNS.
