Campus Antisemitism
“This is a time to say Jewish lives matter,” Rabbi Asher Lopatin, director of community relations at the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor, told JNS.
The public university confirmed the two “small arson” fires and said that the incidents were being investigated.
The Department of Education has not specified the type of discrimination in which the schools allegedly engaged.
“The seeds of hate are sown long before the freshman year,” congressman Mike Kelly said.
Incorporating an antisemitic trope during a panel on Jewish life, associate dean Matthew Patashnick texted that one of the speakers knows “how to take full advantage of this moment.”
“I should not have to be my only ally against antisemitism at school,” said Oron, an eighth-grade student.
“Northwestern’s capitulation to its antisemitic encampment and its impeding of the committee’s oversight are unbecoming of a leading university,” wrote Rep. Virginia Foxx.
The student protesters had set up an “unlawful encampment” on campus, complete with “wooden shields and water-filled barriers,” according to police.
Head of school David Lourie had labeled the fight against Jew-hate a “joke.”
The private college voiced “support for the murder of Jewish Israelis and to end the Jewish state” shortly after Oct. 7, according to professor Karen Fiss.
“It was the highlight of my week,” a University of California student told JNS of Daniel Levine’s course on major Jewish texts.
A school spokesperson was pleased to be “able to come to a resolution.”
