Campus Antisemitism
A New York psychologist who works with young people told JNS she is hearing of students going to Hillel and Chabad for the first time, to study there instead of at the library.
A group of 335 professors called on the university to apply its existing policies to stop incitement.
Northwestern University’s new antisemitism prevention committee will also focus on anti-Palestinian hate. Jeremy Corbyn declines 15 times to say if Hamas is a terror group. One hundred State Department staffers say Israel commits war crimes.
A Cleveland Jewish cemetery defaced. Teenagers arrested in France. A third Jewish school shot in Montreal. And Maoris support Israel in New Zealand.
“It’s important to show solidarity by coming, by messaging and say that Israel does not stand alone,” stated Andrew Rehfeld, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
“It is a call to conscience,” said Robert Nicholson, head of the Philos Project. “If Franciscan can do this, why can’t Notre Dame or Yale?”
“The two groups repeatedly violated university policies,” said Gerald Rosberg, a senior executive vice president at the New York academic institution.
“Jewish students are feeling threatened, and they’ve told us that the response from UC and CSU has left them feeling unsupported,” said Scott Wiener, a Democratic member of the state Senate.
New York woman assaulted. Harvard to launch antisemitism training. First person arrested under Melbourne Nazi salute ban.
“We have a clear vision of how to succeed, through strategic legal action that imposes real consequences on Jew-hatred,” said Brooke Goldstein, the project’s founder and executive director.
“Qatar—one of the most vocal pro-Hamas, antisemitic countries in the world—has given over $1 billion to U.S. universities from 2011 to 2016,” said Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Calif.).
A pro-Israel rally is planned for Georgetown University Law Center; the Jewish community rallies around a coffee shop in Manhattan; and an antisemitic column appears in the “Toronto Star.”
