Campus Antisemitism
The school “has been complicit, offering an ‘internet-optional’ university that only those it can’t protect have to use.”
Anti-Israel mob barricade themselves inside Hamilton Hall, staff member briefly held against his will.
“It is patently false and a blood libel to suggest that ANY Jewish students are ‘pro-genocide,’” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted.
Irene Khan, U.N. special rapporteur for freedom of expression and opinion, lamented what she said was confusion between hate speech, incitement and what is “basically a different view of the situation in Israel”
“Hitler, Hitler go back home, Palestine is ours alone,” more than 100 demonstrators chanted at George Washington University on Friday.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) asked pressing questions of the university’s interim president with a deadline of May 6.
Reps. Mike Lawler and Ritchie Torres intend to introduce the bill responding to antisemitism on campuses, “Jewish Insider” reported.
“Jewish students are being targeted and attacked physically and verbally,” wrote the school’s president.
Jason Holtzman of the local Jewish Community Relations Council told JNS that people should “speak out to show that there is zero tolerance for these behaviors and actions.”
The Columbia University student Khymani James wrote that he wanted “people to have more context for my words, which I regret.”
It comes in the wake of threats, harassment, intimidation and discrimination against Jewish students at the public institution.
Michael Rosenzweig, a new member of the board of directors at the Democratic Majority for Israel, told JNS about his views on rising antisemitism in academia, particularly at his alma mater.
