Campus Antisemitism
In December alone, 21 schools joined the list of institutions facing scrutiny for claims of discrimination.
“The impact of this war, this battlefront reaches all the way down to your campuses,” the Israeli president told a visiting delegation.
“With growing antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred around the world, HIAS will not stray from our mission,” said the head of the nonprofit, Mark Hetfield.
In a media interview, Josh Shapiro said he raised three suggestions with leaders at the Ivy League university.
The U.S. Education Department is investigating University of Illinois, Drexel, Springfield Public Schools, Chandler Unified District, UC Davis and MIT.
Some 65% of respondents said funding should be cut from universities that fail to tackle Jew-hatred.
Len Blavatnik, who is Jewish, has reportedly donated more than $270 million to date to the school.
“The idea that antisemitism is not treated with the same rigor as other forms of hate needs to be addressed,” Anthony Housefather told JNS.
The university must reject antisemitism, protect Jewish students and include the Jewish narrative, per a letter sent to university leaders.
“It is difficult to trust the department to investigate violations of Title VI when your own public statements suggest that you have already come to your own conclusions,” the Republicans wrote.
The Harvard Divinity School visiting scholar stepped down from the university’s Antisemitism Advisory Group.
In a letter leading to the cancellation of a presentation by Dan Kalb, a class accuses Israel of “ethnic cleansing” and “war crimes.”
