Campus Antisemitism
The Latin School of Chicago “does not tolerate antisemitism or any other form of hate,” wrote two administrators, announcing an internal probe into a second incident of a Third Reich-linked song being performed.
“There is real movement to restore balance in teaching and to bring back the idea that you really need to be objective in the classroom,” Alan Garber said.
“For the first time, the district is acknowledging that it discriminated against Jews and Israelis,” a lawyer for the Oakland Jewish Alliance told JNS.
The program provides students with tools needed to confront antisemitism and misinformation when they return to their colleges.
“Israel has both the right and the obligation to defend its people, and that reality should not be erased or rewritten in the classroom,” Rep. Tom Kean stated.
“What is most concerning is not only the language itself, but the mindset it reflects,” the Federation said of a voice message that the principal left for a Jewish parent.
“It undermines your confidence in so many ways, because you have a certain perception of your own community,” Rep. Sam Liccardo told JNS of the incident.
“Acts of hate may try to intimidate, but they will never define us—our Torah, our values and our unity will always be stronger,” Rabbi Kasriel Shemtov, executive director of Chabad Lubavitch of Michigan, told JNS.
Roger Feigelson, executive director of the Hillel, said “most of our programming supplies have been destroyed.”
Ben Shuldiner, the outgoing superintendent of the Lansing School District in Michigan, told JNS that deep-blue Seattle is a better political fit for him than somewhere like Kentucky.
“Silence” from the Ivy League school and the authorities “only amplifies these fears,” Nathan Miller, who runs a PR firm, told JNS.
The state’s silence calls “into question the state government’s commitment to combating the rising threat of antisemitism and other hate crimes in New York,” the congresswoman said.
