Education
American Federation of Teachers delegates will vote on resolutions addressing Israel, including one proposal that would allocate $50,000 to UNICEF’s Gaza relief program and launch a campaign encouraging AFT members to contribute.
The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce has asked the American Federation of Teachers president to hand over all documentation related to her book, “Why Fascists Fear Teachers.”
“If your intro professor talks about how evil capitalism is and how America is a colonial project and how Zionism is part of that colonial project, you repeat that stuff because that’s part of getting a good grade,” report author Jay Greene told JNS.
The Sylvan Adams Sport Science Institute aims to provide Israeli athletes with a competitive advantage through science, technology and personalized support.
Dean McKay, of Fordham University, told JNS that the initiative aims to “address issues in professional training that may have antisemitic components to it, which is growing increasingly common in the profession.”
New centers in Chernivtsi and Bila Tserkva will serve about 200,000 children, providing classrooms, libraries and support during treatment in medical centers.
“The laying of tefillin in the State of the Jews is not a subject for controversy; it is part of our Jewish identity,” Minister Yoav Kisch said.
Besides Israel, she wrote on topics that ranged from the mentally ill to global warming, to the persecution of small American farmers by the Legal Services Corporation.
“Unless we eliminate the root cause of campus antisemitism, a change in leadership will act as a band-aid,” Brandy Shufutinsky, of FDD, told JNS.
Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin will serve as a point of contact for Jewish students, advise university leaders on combating antisemitism and help oversee compliance with Columbia’s agreement with the Trump administration.
Despite a U.N. commissioned review calling to end Palestinian incitement to violence in education, textbooks continue to praise violence against Israel.
