Campus Antisemitism
Leaders said a “truly meaningful response” includes a public statement from the association condemning antisemitism, even when “camouflaged as criticism of Zionism or Israel.”
The strengthened advocacy efforts of the campus leaders “will shift the narrative and support Israel on a wider scale,” said Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations.
“As long as the struggle continues in Gaza, it will continue globally, on our campus and in our streets,” the student group said in a statement.
Professor Joseph Massad called the terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 “astounding” and “awesome.”
“It is long overdue that those who enable and promote antisemitism are held accountable,” Amichai Chikli posted.
“CUNY Hunter’s failure to protect its Jewish community underscores a deeply troubling systemic issue,” according to the Lawfare Project.
The U.S. Department of Education’s review of the roughly two dozen complaints made against the school “raised concerns that university practices did not appear designed to remedy any hostile environment.”
After reviewing the harassment complaints from the campuses in its system, the University of California will submit a plan to “identify responsive steps” for the U.S. Department of Education’s approval.
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is the lone Israeli university to have adopted the IHRA definition to date.
“It is unacceptable and has no place on college campuses or in our country,” the New Jersey congressman said in a statement.
The district’s compliance ensures “Jewish students, like all students, can learn in an environment free from discriminatory harassment,” the U.S. Education Department’s assistant secretary of civil rights said.
“Israel will not cower to terror,” the Israeli mission to the United Nations in Manhattan stated. “We will not be silent in the face of hate and violence.”
