Campus Antisemitism
“The student organization was suspended for violations of university policies,” a spokesperson for the D.C. school told JNS.
“I regret that I conveyed a lack of compassion and care and good sense to those people,” Liz Magill said of her testimony to Congress in December 2023.
A professor, who has worked at the Philadelphia-area school for 19 years, told JNS he can’t believe it “has turned against the Jewish community in such a horrendous way.”
Alyza Lewin, of the Combat Antisemitism Movement, told JNS that some of the things that speakers said at the event raised “concerns in my mind.”
Magda Teter, a professor of history at Fordham University, stated that she is “looking forward to exploring these complex issues with different audiences.”
Rebecca Schgallis, who directs CAMERA’s K-12 program, stated that the report is a “warning to communities nationwide.”
“No number of ‘teach-ins’ can erase the atrocities committed by Gazan terrorists,” stated Brandy Shufutinsky, of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
The foreign funding comes, in part, from “countries and entities that are involved in activities that threaten America’s national security,” the U.S. education secretary said.
The issue is a “failure of governance,” Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, of the AMCHA Initiative, told JNS.
The candidate, who would succeed Rashid Khalidi, a longtime critic of Israel who retired from the post in 2024, has publicly praised him as a mentor.
“There are certainly organizations with much stronger reputations within the Jewish community for actually standing up and fighting antisemitism,” the Jewish Educators and Families Association of Canada told JNS.
“I think the government should be funding those universities that see themselves as repositories of cultural inheritance and of a Western tradition that undergirds what America stands for,” Yeshiva University’s president, who testified at the hearing, told JNS.
