Campus Antisemitism
“Schools are taking more action, but we are still at heightened levels of antisemitic incidents on campus,” the Anti-Defamation League told JNS.
Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, of the AMCHA Initiative, told JNS that the “issue is not just about Jews and Israel” but about “misuse of the institution.”
The settlement helps “to ensure that Jewish and Israeli students and faculty are treated as equal and valuable members of the campus community,” Oleg Ivanov, of the StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice, told JNS.
Many students at elite schools think “if you are smart enough to be here, you should have moved past religion,” the lead author of a new study told JNS.
“If every campus suddenly had professors willing to do this, we wouldn’t need Qatar-level money,” Mark Goldfeder, of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, told JNS.
“It’s hard for me to believe that someone would spend $70,000 to $80,000 to go to a school where people hate you because of your beliefs,” David Rancourt, vice provost of New College, told JNS. “I assure you that does not happen here.”
“Until the Department of Education or Congress holds these school leaders accountable, we’re going to keep dealing with this festering problem,” Stu Smith, of the Manhattan Institute, told JNS.
The court ruling found that the university improperly relied on sealed arrest records and deemed disciplinary findings “arbitrary and capricious.”
“Any foreign student tweeting ‘death to America’ should be deported immediately,” Sen. Ted Cruz said.
Most signatories are in the science, technology, engineering, medicine and math fields, according to Ilan Benjamin, a professor emeritus at UC Santa Cruz.
Jeffrey Lang, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS that “we felt compelled to sue the state for systemic, effective change.”
“Although the school didn’t terminate her, it was essentially constructive termination, because the environment had become so hostile that she was unable to work there,” Lauren Israelovitch, of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, told JNS.
