Education
“It is completely unacceptable that some university leaders have let the situation get this out of hand,” says CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.
Senior administrators at the school exchanged disparaging messages during a panel discussion about Jew-hatred on campus.
“As employers, colleges have a legal duty and moral obligation to protect staff and faculty from discrimination and harassment,” said Rep. Kevin Kiley.
UC Davis didn’t adequately respond to threats of “violence against individuals who support Israel” and “mocking Jewish students and Zionists,” per a letter from the U.S. Education Department.
Professor, rector and incoming president Gur Elroy said it affirms “our status as a beacon of the values that shape Israeli society as a whole, and the social, economic and environmental fabric in the north.”
“This is a time to say Jewish lives matter,” Rabbi Asher Lopatin, director of community relations at the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor, told JNS.
The public university confirmed the two “small arson” fires and said that the incidents were being investigated.
“Given the ideological resistance to theater by some Jewish and Christian authorities, it is all the more striking when they appropriate its forms,” author Courtney Friesen told JNS.
“Antisemitism continues to run rampant on college campuses,” said Kenneth Marcus, of the Brandeis Center.
The little-known Gallus Revolt in 351-354 C.E. saw Lod, Tzipori and Tiberias destroyed.
The Department of Education has not specified the type of discrimination in which the schools allegedly engaged.
“The seeds of hate are sown long before the freshman year,” congressman Mike Kelly said.
