Campus Antisemitism
A spokesperson for the Ivy League school previously said “the University welcomes and embraces the Israeli students.”
Harvard graduate student Shabbos Kestenbaum told JNS that it’s a “damning indictment” on higher education that “in order to receive equity and justice, we have to resort to the media, to Congress, to lawsuits.”
The administrator did not have the necessary approval for acquiescence to demands by anti-Israel activists.
The legislators demanded an outline of how to protect Jewish and pro-Israel students from “persecution on college campuses nationwide.”
The House Education Committee chair told JNS that the university “must answer for its failure to protect Jewish students on its campus.”
“I hear people breaking free from their chains,” Haverford’s president allegedly said when she saw an image of a bulldozer used on Oct. 7.
“Institutions have struggled to enforce their own policies effectively, leading to a lack of accountability and loss of confidence in the system,” said Shimon Koffler Fogel of the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs.
Jenna Kandeel faces three misdemeanor charges after allegedly damaging flags as part of a Holocaust memorial.
“Grant complete amnesty from all criminal and disciplinary charges,” the Princeton Divest Now group demands.
The university appears poised to let the students off mostly without punishment and to listen to a pitch about boycotting Israel.
The New York City Department of Education “has not taken antisemitism seriously,” one student told JNS.
An inability to come up with consensus language has stalled a vote.
