Campus Antisemitism
A letter from the Wellesley College president, why Penn didn’t support its leader, a naughty Santa and “Jeopardy!” Antisemitism roundup, Dec. 16-18
While 66% of 18-to-24-year-olds said that Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attacks were genocidal in nature, 60% of the same group said it was justified.
Edelson PC will not participate in upcoming events in 2024.
Researchers at Brandeis polled 2,000 Jewish undergraduates at 51 schools.
Interest in the Ivy League school is at a four-year low as it is “embroiled in a national row over how U.S. colleges are handling incidents of antisemitism,” Bloomberg reported.
Antisemitism incidents, Dec. 12-14
Every Republican but one voted for the resolution, which passed 303-126, effectively splitting the Democratic caucus.
The university’s board has chosen to back Claudine Gay.
It represents a student who experienced antisemitism and whose pleas to administrators failed to achieve a resolution.
“We will address conduct complaints against Columbia students at this event under Columbia’s policies,” a university spokeswoman said, of the Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace protest.
“Authenticity of the food and naming of the recipes have been a concern brought to us by students in the past,” a university spokesman said.
Of students surveyed, 79% report experiencing antisemitism on campus.
