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The Knesset passed a law in October making it illegal for the terror-linked agency to operate in the Jewish state.
“The scourge of antisemitism has taken root far beyond the country’s best-known ivory towers,” the committee chair said, opening the hearing.
The Ivy League school “has made a mockery of this country’s higher education system,” Linda McMahon wrote to the Harvard president.
Firebrand lawyer Lori Lowenthal Marcus fights for civil rights for American Jewish students from a very young age.
During an April 16 board meeting, a trustee of the public school district said that Jews are “historically” wealthy.
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce is requesting an explanation of Northwestern’s “apparent failure to protect Jewish students.”
“No institution—no matter its pedigree, prestige or wealth—is above the law,” said the U.S. Department of Education’s acting assistant secretary for civil rights.
“The Jews say, ‘This is ours, that was ours....’ No. That’s not what the Quran says,” said the Palestinian leader, echoing a claim made by his predecessor, Yasser Arafat.
“Throughout human history, revolutionaries have targeted the young and impressionable,” political commentator Bethany Mandel tells JNS.
The move comes one week after the department initiated a similar look into Harvard University.
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs slammed the report for “blatantly” dismissing “the lived experience of Jewish students, families and educators.”
“YIVO was conceived as a kind of Smithsonian Institution-Library of Congress of Eastern European Jews,” Eddy Portnoy, director of exhibitions at the nonprofit, told JNS.
