Campus Antisemitism
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.”
“Any university receiving federal funding has a duty to promote equal opportunity to all students and to comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.”
“You are free now—free to work for your families and communities … free to help Klal Yisroel … and free to build a better world,” said Alan Kadish, president of the university.
Mark Rienzi, president and CEO of the nonprofit Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, said school administrators demonstrated “a profound and illegal failure of leadership.”
The demonstrators barricaded themselves in the office of the president while others formed a human chain outside the building.
