Campus Antisemitism
About 50 students with an interest in international affairs spoke with the embassy’s public diplomacy counselor.
Controversial Brandeis ‘Times’ advertisement not reflective of Orthodox life on campus, students say
“It’s a reminder that you can’t be too careful in the marketing business,” Brandeis professor Jonathan Sarna told JNS.
“In this ad, ‘Orthodox’ clearly means rigid, antiquated, monolithic and unevolving. Since Orthodox Jews would reject these adjectives in their self-definition, this line is problematic,” said scholar Malka Simkovich.
Jana Abulaban of El Camino College accused the Jewish state of “killing and torturing Palestinians as we speak.” The community college claims that she was only authorized to introduce a speaker.
Neo-Nazis protest outside Disney World, Mel Gibson returns to Hollywood respectability, and vandals used chemicals to burn a giant swastika on a church lawn in Alaska.
Jay Greene of Heritage Foundation told JNS that the bill recently introduced in Congress is unlikely to succeed.
At a gala in New York, the Jewish group presented Bill Thompson with a public service award.
An overwhelming majority of people say grades, standardized test scores and community service should rank higher into getting into American universities.
Australia bans display of swastikas, ADL head Jonathan Greenblatt calls Tucker Carlson an “obvious antisemite” and an officer testifies that alleged mass murderer Robert Bowers said “Jews are the children of Satan.”
No matter what happens, SUNY “did not serve us in time, or it did not consider our well-being and the urgency of the matter,” one of two student complainants told JNS.
CUNY law school faces blowback for an antisemitic commencement speaker, Moscow accuses Washington of causing the Holocaust and updates in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial.
Two legal groups have urged “a thorough investigation into the tax-exempt status” of the college.
