Campus Antisemitism
Over the past year, the university has experienced both positive and negative developments surrounding anti-Semitism.
“I would urge college and university stakeholders to pay special attention to the way in which schools handle the harassment of Jewish and pro-Israel students, and whether it’s consistent with how they treat all other students on campus,” Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, co-founder and director of the AMCHA Initiative, told JNS.
Kristen Clarke was involved with a 1994 event featuring the late Wellesley College professor Tony Martin, who self-published “The Jewish Onslaught: Dispatches from the Wellesley Battlefront.”
While the university has not issued a formal statement on the incident, Sunil Kumar, from the university’s provost office, said in an email to StandWithUs that it is “aware of the incident.”
Professors Dror Feitelson, Itamar Willner, Eric Cohen, Yitzhak Marcus and Steve Weiner earned the ranking by Stanford University.
Jewish groups hail the university’s “unambiguous condemnation of anti-Jewish bigotry.”
Noah Lewis, a grandson of Holocaust survivors, faced a verbal backlash from classmates that included being told he was complicit in covering up “Israeli war crimes.”
Professor Abbas Ghassemi is accused of promulgating hatred of Jews and Israel in a series of since-deleted Twitter posts.
Panels covering advocacy, leadership, inclusion and media bias go hand in hand with sessions on how to impact a change in policy, democracy, culture and preserving Jewish memory.
It passed with 1,725 votes in favor, 665 against and 161 abstentions, voted on by about one-third of the student body population.
“There is a word for someone who has ‘taken part’ in two plane hijackings. That word is not ‘activist,’ ” tweets American Jewish Committee.
It stated that social-media censorship went against the principle of academic freedom.
