Campus Antisemitism
Anti-Israel protesters blocked the reserved event space and directed death threats toward Jewish students, according to the Oregon Hillel.
Ilana Cohen, of Emet Legal Services, told JNS that “teachers don’t have the right to insert their personal discriminatory biases into the classroom.”
“Penn does not have a strong chance of prevailing on appeal but makes, narrowly, a showing of irreparable harm,” U.S. District Judge Gerald J. Pappert wrote in his ruling.
“Some actions that took place over the weekend violated the student code of conduct and the college’s time, place and manner policies,” a college spokesman told JNS.
One professor who served on the committee that created the report said the Trump administration’s accusations of antisemitism at Yale “were a pretty serious exaggeration.”
“This veto is a profound failure of City Hall to demonstrate to all New Yorkers that our safety is a priority,” the groups said.
Sam Markstein, of the Republican Jewish Coalition, told JNS that Mamdani’s first veto as mayor “serves to accommodate vile antisemitic protests comes as no surprise.”
“Academic freedom does not include platforming terrorists,” stated the LawFare Project, which called the event “institutional normalization of terrorism.”
Elana Stern, of the firm Ropes and Gray, told JNS that “no student and no family should have to experience what Eden and Montana Horwitz have had to experience.”
“This student’s ability to exercise, freely, his religion should not be incompatible with his equally important right to fully participate in residential life at Williams,” Rachel Balaban, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS.
“No child should have to endure this kind of sustained harassment and exclusion for their religious identity in a public school or any school,” the Anti-Defamation League said.
Nate Lebowitz called a recent fundraising appeal “a knife plunged into my heart” as Jewish students have described “hostility and isolation” on campus since Oct. 7.
