Education
The experience “showed how easy it is to convince college students to hate Jews and Israel,” Zach Sage Fox told JNS.
The Ivy League school, whose embattled president resigned in December, says the office “will be the first of its kind nationally.”
“Brown’s leadership admits the looming divestment vote is designed to buy good behavior from pro-Hamas activists,” wrote Joseph Edelman, a hedge-fund manager.
The watchdog group identified nearly 250 people, including some 150 professors, who it says were part of an anti-Israel protest.
The Secondary School Teachers Association opposes private contracts. The government says the union only wants to maintain its grip on power.
The Harvard Out of Palestine student group held a meeting with the university administration just days after the start of the new academic year.
Keziah Ridgeway released names of local Jewish leaders and suggested in online posts that gun owners should target Jews, per a complaint filed with the School District of Philadelphia.
“The survey analysis shows how differently Jewish and non-Jewish students experienced the last year on campus and hints at what can be expected in the future,” said co-author Eitan Hersh.
“No one is facing consequences,” says assistant professor Shai Davidai.
A 41-page report presents a rebuttal of their case to divest from Israel.
“Erasing all antisemitic content from education materials is among the first of many steps needed to establish civil society, professional education and proper economic structures in the Palestinian territories,” said Austrian MEP Lukas Mandl.
“It’s certainly inconvenient,” quipped graduate student Aryeh Krischer.
