Education
Catherine Lhamon, the assistant secretary of education for civil rights, told legislators about the many hurdles in revoking a school’s government funding.
“Our role is not only in higher education and groundbreaking research,” said Daniel Chamovitz, professor and president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. It’s also about “building a cosmopolitan, attractive society the youth of Israel want to be a part of.”
“This report pinpoints the caustic, antisemitic ideology that has consumed many unions,” stated Rep. Virginia Foxx, the House committee’s chair.
The focus on a well-rounded education is encapsulated in the institution’s name; in Hebrew, shefa means “abundance.”
A contentious debate surrounded the idea that American Jews were not a historically oppressed people.
“This decision is my own and reflects my own rumination about how best to be of service,” said Jonathan Holloway.
Joining them were representatives of major American Jewish organizations to help determine how to increase security on campus.
Rep. Claudia Tenney told the “New York Post” that she is “deeply disgusted” that the Ivy League school is still employing Russell Rickford.
A board meeting at the public school featured the “most vile, outrageous displays of antisemitism to be witnessed at a public meeting in the United States of America in recent memory,” JFNA said.
Anti-Israel responses since Oct. 7 “go way beyond the peaceful voicing of a political opinion,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.
“It’s in vogue to believe that the Jews are evil and the Jewish state is evil,” the lawyer Lori Lowenthal Marcus told JNS. “They’re feeling like they’re on the side of justice.”
Abbott reminds schools Jew-hatred ‘never acceptable in Texas’
“As we approach the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack in Israel,” the governor wrote, “it is crucial that Texas colleges and universities stay vigilant.”
