Campus Antisemitism
“While any artist has the right in our country to express hateful views, Slope Day is about uniting our community, not dividing it,” the university stated.
Protests erupt during Israeli minister’s visit near Yale; Jewish students harassed, pro-Palestinian group expelled for violating campus conduct rules.
Assaults on Jews were up 21% in 2024 compared to 2023, with 30% involving Orthodox Jews, though Pew Research Center data suggests 9% of U.S. Jews are Orthodox.
The legislators are requesting information on the changes to each school’s code of conduct following the Hamas-led attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Sewell Chan, the former “CJR” executive editor, was dismissed, in part, after raising a “significant ethical problem” with a reporter who “is passionately devoted to the cause of the Gaza protests.”
The request “is the Trump administration’s first step to ensure Harvard is not being manipulated by foreign entities,” the U.S. Education secretary said.
“We’re not going to let Georgetown turn into Columbia University in terms of the chaos and the hate that’s spewed,” Ed Martin told JNS.
At the Université libre de Bruxelles, Jewish students said they don’t feel safe.
“Khalil spent the past year and a half leading an organization that effectively made large areas of Columbia University off-limits for Jewish Zionist students,” said David Litman of CAMERA.
“If Harvard, or any institution for that matter, does not wish to comply with this basic legal obligation, the proper avenue for achieving this is simple: do not take federal financial assistance,” the lawmakers wrote.
“With a $53.2 billion endowment, Harvard can fund its own chaos, but the Department of Homeland Security won’t,” a department press release stated.
University president Alan Garber called the government’s demands “unprecedented,” geared more to “intellectual conditions” than attempts to curb campus antisemitism.
