Campus Antisemitism
“Moral leadership is vitally important at this fraught moment. It would be of great consequence for you, the presidents, to condemn the barbarous acts of Oct. 7 publicly and unequivocally,” wrote the Israeli president.
Jewish Insider reported that the Massachusetts university banned the student group, as the school’s president published an op-ed in the Boston globe about confronting antisemitism on campus.
Students can reach out for pro bono legal guidance.
Yeshiva University President Ari Berman marshaled his colleagues to sign a declaration denouncing the terror group.
The appeal follows a wave of anti-Israel protests at campuses across the United States featuring both overt and covert praise for Hamas.
The editor Ibrahim Bharmal and Elom Tettey Tamaklo, a graduate divinity student at Harvard who supervises undergraduates, are named in a report to the FBI and campus police.
Editor-in-chief Anika Seth wrote that the publication “was wrong to publish the corrections.”
The attorney representing the group said the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks “poured a lot of fuel on an already raging fire.”
UC regent Jay Sures: “The thought that young and impressionable students might be taught the falsehoods of your letter absolutely sickens me.”
Patrick Dai faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
An eight-member panel will include Rabbi David Wolpe and novelist Dara Horn, the author of “People Love Dead Jews.”
“When I’m asked, ‘Do you feel safe at Columbia University?’ I say, ‘No. I don’t feel safe,’” said 20-year-old Jessica Brenner.
