Campus Antisemitism
“Grant complete amnesty from all criminal and disciplinary charges,” the Princeton Divest Now group demands.
The university appears poised to let the students off mostly without punishment and to listen to a pitch about boycotting Israel.
The New York City Department of Education “has not taken antisemitism seriously,” one student told JNS.
An inability to come up with consensus language has stalled a vote.
Hillel Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Jewish Federation are “appalled” by the university’s “shocking” choice to “capitulate to protesters’ demands, while also parroting their false inflammatory narrative.”
In advocating for love, Seinfeld emphasized that the value extended beyond people to finding enthusiasm and joy in the mundane.
Student protesters were cheered as they marched across the stage wearing zip-tie handcuffs to protest Israel’s war in Gaza.
A small number of anti-Israel protesters marched out of the commencement when Jerry Seinfeld was announced. Many jeered the protesters.
“If one had hoped an academic letter would be more reality-based, one would be disappointed,” David Bernstein wrote on the Volokh Conspiracy.
Democratic Reps. Josh Gottheimer and Donald Norcross of New Jersey sent a letter to the university’s president, requesting answers on antisemitism.
“I am deeply proud of all we have accomplished together,” wrote the academic leader, who led the administration for seven years.
The Florida senator called for “expedited deportation proceedings.”
