Campus Antisemitism
“Qatar—one of the most vocal pro-Hamas, antisemitic countries in the world—has given over $1 billion to U.S. universities from 2011 to 2016,” said Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Calif.).
A pro-Israel rally is planned for Georgetown University Law Center; the Jewish community rallies around a coffee shop in Manhattan; and an antisemitic column appears in the “Toronto Star.”
“Moral leadership is vitally important at this fraught moment. It would be of great consequence for you, the presidents, to condemn the barbarous acts of Oct. 7 publicly and unequivocally,” wrote the Israeli president.
Jewish Insider reported that the Massachusetts university banned the student group, as the school’s president published an op-ed in the Boston globe about confronting antisemitism on campus.
Students can reach out for pro bono legal guidance.
Yeshiva University President Ari Berman marshaled his colleagues to sign a declaration denouncing the terror group.
The appeal follows a wave of anti-Israel protests at campuses across the United States featuring both overt and covert praise for Hamas.
The editor Ibrahim Bharmal and Elom Tettey Tamaklo, a graduate divinity student at Harvard who supervises undergraduates, are named in a report to the FBI and campus police.
Editor-in-chief Anika Seth wrote that the publication “was wrong to publish the corrections.”
The attorney representing the group said the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks “poured a lot of fuel on an already raging fire.”
UC regent Jay Sures: “The thought that young and impressionable students might be taught the falsehoods of your letter absolutely sickens me.”
Patrick Dai faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
