Education
The administrator did not have the necessary approval for acquiescence to demands by anti-Israel activists.
“We are in the fight of our lifetimes,” said Rabbi Noah Farkas, who leads the Jewish Federation Los Angeles. “It’s going to take all of us.”
The legislators demanded an outline of how to protect Jewish and pro-Israel students from “persecution on college campuses nationwide.”
The heads of the House education and oversight committees asked U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for reports on “suspicious activity” related to the groups.
The House Education Committee chair told JNS that the university “must answer for its failure to protect Jewish students on its campus.”
“I hear people breaking free from their chains,” Haverford’s president allegedly said when she saw an image of a bulldozer used on Oct. 7.
“Institutions have struggled to enforce their own policies effectively, leading to a lack of accountability and loss of confidence in the system,” said Shimon Koffler Fogel of the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs.
Jenna Kandeel faces three misdemeanor charges after allegedly damaging flags as part of a Holocaust memorial.
“Grant complete amnesty from all criminal and disciplinary charges,” the Princeton Divest Now group demands.
The university appears poised to let the students off mostly without punishment and to listen to a pitch about boycotting Israel.
Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center called it “outrageous” that the York Region District School Board had considered not using the symbol.
University of Pittsburgh to review professor’s alleged bias towards student
“We are pleased that the administration has responded and is looking into our complaint,” said Julie Paris, StandWithUs Mid-Atlantic regional director.
