Campus Antisemitism
The new panel “is the first step in giving life to President Trump’s renewed commitment to ending antisemitism in our schools,” said Leo Terrell, who has been tapped to lead the effort.
“It is 2025 and the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz being liberated, and there is someone Jewish in Ohio, in America, that is scared to walk home,” the student said. “You’ve got to be kidding me.”
The Combat Antisemitism Movement praised the president “for taking bold and decisive action and for his proven friendship with the Jewish people at this critical moment in history.”
Elizabeth Tsurkov has been held captive by an Iranian-backed Shi’ite militia since 2023.
The former U.S. Education Department official told JNS that George Mason University Jewish students and professors are right to worry about what’s happening on campus.
Groups with ‘direct’ terror ties planned anti-Israel protests at Columbia, per Canary Mission report
“Despite efforts to depict it as such, the encampment was not the product of naive, anti-war college kids,” the watchdog stated.
“They refuse to accept Israel as a normal part of discourse at Columbia University and in the world,” Elisha Baker, a junior at the school, told JNS.
“I would call this a Trump effect,” Kenneth L. Marcus, chair of the Brandeis Center, told JNS.
“Antisemitism is easy to avoid until it’s too late,” one student told attendees. “Antisemitism is a virus.”
“The incoming administration is widely anticipated to be far more demanding of defendant universities to be responsive to complainants,” Lori Lowenthal Marcus, of the Deborah Project, told JNS.
The Baltimore Zionist District stated that the University of Maryland School of Medicine opted to “surrender to political pressure.”
“Our clients should be proud of what they accomplished in the face of entrenched opposition,” a lawyer for the plaintiffs told JNS.
