Campus Antisemitism
“Antisemitism on the left is a well-known problem. ... Now what has been revealed is we have also a problem on the right.”
On Sunday morning, many hours after the shooting, authorities said that a person of interest was in custody.
The committee previously sent the private university a letter addressing “a series of deeply troubling antisemitic incidents” in March 2024.
The lecturer, Peyrin Kao, engaged in a hunger strike in support of Gaza and told students Israel was guilty of genocide.
Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of homeland security for public affairs, told JNS that visas are a “privilege, not a right, no matter what this or any other activist judicial ruling says.”
Jonathan Greenblatt, of the Anti-Defamation League, stated that the agreement is a “turning point” for Jews on campus.
The university “agreed to everything we were demanding,” Paul Eckles, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS.
Beth Silbergeld, principal of Branham High School, told JNS that the students are “committed to taking accountability for the harm that was done.”
The school’s Task Force on Antisemitism published its final report, which, among other things, said the American Association of University Professors appears to discriminate against Israel.
“It is not controversial to say the state has a right to give direction to teachers as far as what it is they should be instructing their classrooms,” Seth Brysk, of the American Jewish Committee, told JNS.
The classical liberal arts school in Michigan is “a blessed reprieve from the moral and intellectual rot of Portland,” visiting professor Michael Weingrad told JNS.
Richard Stearns said Yoav Segev didn’t show that he was subjected to “severe and pervasive racial harassment” at the Ivy League school.
