Campus Antisemitism
“Congress will not tolerate your dereliction of your duty to your Jewish students,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.).
The Jewish student body president at the University of California, Santa Barbara, experienced harassment, intimidation and threats.
“No apology. No explanation. I believe this is a perfect example of ‘too little, too late,’” the Israeli professor said.
“This is the single most pressing issue we are faced with,” said Senate Republican Leader Rob Ortt.
A spokesperson for the Ivy League school previously said “the University welcomes and embraces the Israeli students.”
Harvard graduate student Shabbos Kestenbaum told JNS that it’s a “damning indictment” on higher education that “in order to receive equity and justice, we have to resort to the media, to Congress, to lawsuits.”
The administrator did not have the necessary approval for acquiescence to demands by anti-Israel activists.
The legislators demanded an outline of how to protect Jewish and pro-Israel students from “persecution on college campuses nationwide.”
The House Education Committee chair told JNS that the university “must answer for its failure to protect Jewish students on its campus.”
“I hear people breaking free from their chains,” Haverford’s president allegedly said when she saw an image of a bulldozer used on Oct. 7.
“Institutions have struggled to enforce their own policies effectively, leading to a lack of accountability and loss of confidence in the system,” said Shimon Koffler Fogel of the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs.
Jenna Kandeel faces three misdemeanor charges after allegedly damaging flags as part of a Holocaust memorial.
