Campus Antisemitism
“It’s a crisis threatening the safety and dignity of Jewish students,” Jacob Baime, CEO of ICC, told JNS.
“Antisemitism, like racism, is a spiritual and moral malady that sickens societies and kills people with lethalities comparable to history’s most deadly plagues,” said the U.S. secretary of health and human services.
Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) said these efforts “bring much-needed attention to the plight of Jewish students across our country.”
“There’s nothing that gets a university president’s attention like a call from the Justice Department,” Kenneth L. Marcus, chairman of the Brandeis Center, told JNS.
He posted a photo of a campus pro-Israel demonstration on Holocaust Remembrance Day with the caption, “Can somebody shoot this s**t up?”
A U.S. District Court judge wrote that the plaintiffs “graduated from Harvard many years before the central events referred to in the complaint.”
The NYPD told JNS that it had a report on file of an assault, but that there were no arrests amid an ongoing investigation.
“Not for 24 hours, but for years,” civil rights attorney Leo Terrell warned.
“There is not one iota of the union having done this because it was the right thing to do,” Jeffrey Lax, a CUNY law professor, told JNS.
“This will send a clear message that the harassment of Jewish students and faculty will not be tolerated at Columbia,” Brian Cohen, executive director of the Columbia Barnard Hillel, told JNS.
“Rutgers University must not tolerate faculty members spewing vile antisemitism or conspiracy theories about the Jewish community,” said Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.).
Trump signed an executive order intended to revolutionize the fight against Jew-hatred.
