Education
The university “at last did the right thing” suspending its relationship with the Palestinian institution, a former Harvard president wrote.
Rabbi David Wolpe, a former member of Harvard’s Antisemitism Advisory Group, said the change in leadership was “good news.”
Reps. Tim Walberg and Burgess Owens wrote to Barnard, Bowdoin, Northwestern, Pomona and Sarah Lawrence for answers about their alleged failure to combat antisemitism on campus.
“Oklahoma stands with our Jewish communities and will not tolerate hatred disguised as political discourse,” the bills’ author said.
Linda Maizels, a scholar of contemporary antisemitism, wants to “to find new ways to involve Yale undergraduate students” in discussions of Jew-hatred.
The declarative move followed the Amsterdam institution’s decision to suspend a student exchange program with the Hebrew University.
“Permanent and structural reform” is needed to back up “their resolve to end antisemitism and protect all students and faculty on campus,” a member of the Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism said.
Steven Thrasher, who participated in the pro-Palestinian encampments at Northwestern in April 2024, said he will appeal the decision.
The University of Haifa, Tel Aviv’s Afeka College of Engineering and the Jerusalem College of Technology are pushing ahead with ambitious plans to develop their campuses.
“The experiences of the Jewish students at these institutions have been emblematic of what we have seen across the country, and that must change, and it must change now,” the ADL stated.
Green said while there was “a little on-campus conflict during the recent war in Gaza, it paled in comparison” to Jew-hatred incidents at other universities.
“Antisemitism and the scourge we’re seeing all over the country is not welcome here,” a senior adviser at the Combat Antisemitism Movement said.
