Education
Along with its increasing popularity come some significant challenges, such as finding qualified educators to run classes and programs.
“Settlers are terrorists by definition,” says Professor Amiram Goldblum, who’s labeled IDF soldiers “Jewish terrorists” • Students file complaint.
“Conflict Over Gaza: People, Politics and Possibilities” reportedly used $5,000 of taxpayer funds from the U.S. Education Department.
From its beginning in 1880 in Russia teaching Jewish farmers new technology following the Industrial Revolution, ORT has remained tuned in to changing economies.
The pro-Israel educational organization’s conference, titled “Israel in Focus,” was attended by 550 students and community members.
“The world hasn’t given Israel any favors; they haven’t treated the Jewish population well, but Israel is a thriving country nevertheless. I don’t know how you could come to Israel and not be impressed,” said Michael Dutch, professor of business management at Guilford College in North Carolina.
History teacher JB Brager, who is Jewish, accused Israel of exemplifying “ethno-nationalist settler colonialism” in response to the Fieldston school inviting two pro-Israel rabbis, Ammiel Hirsch and Joshua Davidson, to speak at an assembly on anti-Semitism.
Filed by StandWithUs, it charges UCLA with violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act regarding its handling of an incident on campus in May.
Over the course of 90 years, the Jewish Agency has worked to build a bilateral connection between Jews and Israel, and to strengthen the relationship between Jews with Israel at its center.
The leadership’s response to incidents of anti-Semitism fit a pattern of “sincere if limited efforts to address it, or pro forma apologies, or simply indifference,” said a faculty member.
The members of Congress stated that “academic boycotts of Israel defy the statutory purposes of Title VI programs. Directors, faculty and staff of Title VI-funded NRCs should not be permitted to implement an academic boycott of any country under their purview.”
It states: “The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is used by faculty and student groups to legitimize discrimination against Jewish and Israeli students because of the latter group’s race, religion and national identity.”
