Education
“As long as the struggle continues in Gaza, it will continue globally, on our campus and in our streets,” the student group said in a statement.
Professor Joseph Massad called the terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 “astounding” and “awesome.”
“CUNY Hunter’s failure to protect its Jewish community underscores a deeply troubling systemic issue,” according to the Lawfare Project.
The U.S. Department of Education’s review of the roughly two dozen complaints made against the school “raised concerns that university practices did not appear designed to remedy any hostile environment.”
After reviewing the harassment complaints from the campuses in its system, the University of California will submit a plan to “identify responsive steps” for the U.S. Department of Education’s approval.
“It is unacceptable and has no place on college campuses or in our country,” the New Jersey congressman said in a statement.
“The less money we can spend on paying security guards, we can then spend more on educating our students,” Yoni Schwab, assistant head of Manhattan’s Shefa School, told JNS.
“By convening at this time, you are excluding a segment of our community from participating in an important public forum,” Alderman Debra Silverstein wrote.
The district’s compliance ensures “Jewish students, like all students, can learn in an environment free from discriminatory harassment,” the U.S. Education Department’s assistant secretary of civil rights said.
“It’s our intent to take this report, its recommendations, and act,” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson stated.
Yael Canaan’s submission of a Jewish-related architecture project resulted in a professor saying that she should have explored “what Jews do to make themselves such a hated group.”
The legislation “will ensure that the lessons of history are not forgotten in these troubling times,” said the chair of the House Education and the Workforce Committee.
