Education
“Innovation is a shared language between our societies,” Hebrew University President Tamir Sheafer said at the ceremony.
The committee previously sent the private university a letter addressing “a series of deeply troubling antisemitic incidents” in March 2024.
“Jewish APA members have reported being harassed and ostracized by their colleagues because of their Jewish identity,” Rep. Tim Walberg wrote.
The lecturer, Peyrin Kao, engaged in a hunger strike in support of Gaza and told students Israel was guilty of genocide.
A pilot project sees a significant surge in enrollment.
Jonathan Greenblatt, of the Anti-Defamation League, stated that the agreement is a “turning point” for Jews on campus.
The policy expands a 2019 ban that prohibited phones during classes.
The school’s Task Force on Antisemitism published its final report, which, among other things, said the American Association of University Professors appears to discriminate against Israel.
The lecture was reportedly canceled after the Israeli Education Ministry determined that Brothers in Arms violates the State Education Law.
“It is a privilege to work and study in the United States, not a right,” the U.S. Department of Homeland Security stated. “There is no room in the United States for brazen, violent acts of antisemitism like this.”
Rep. Tim Walberg told JNS that “it’s clear that foreign nations are working to smuggle antisemitism and divisive ideologies into our K-12 schools.”
Jew-hatred activists “turned campuses into battlegrounds after Oct. 7, while schools “stood by or actively joined the chaos,” Linda McMahon said.
