Education
“What’s very concerning about these hearings is that we’re getting lip service but a lack of enforcement, a lack of accountability,” said Rep. Elise Stefanik.
Proclaiming Justice to the Nations is presenting its findings on antisemitism to the House Education and Workforce Committee.
The university said it acted to meet the demands of anti-Israel protesters who have occupied its campus.
A United Nations watchdog is calling for a probe of Albanese after one of her staff members appeared to try to bypass rules about honoraria.
“The perpetrators of antisemitism on Columbia’s campus have not been disciplined,” two business professors at the university told JNS.
The U.S. education secretary wrote that he is “deeply concerned” about “repeated reports of antisemitic and anti-Israeli, anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, and anti-Palestinian harassment on our campuses and in our communities.”
“President Biden is taking additional strong, decisive action today to fight the rise of antisemitism in America and protect Jewish students,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Pasadena, Calif., is hearing oral arguments in “Loffman v. California Department of Education.”
“For the future of higher education, the American university system needs to meet the challenges of this moment,” YU’s president said.
“Swastikas, death threats and Hitler glorification are all a result of a failure to properly educate our youth, and we must assign consequences to bad actors,” says a city council member.
The anti-Israel wave across the U.S. has made life unbearable for Jewish students. “We will not allow our haters to do as they please,” Liat, a doctoral student, tells Israel Hayom.
“I don’t think the university should look away over the summer. I don’t think they should be passive just because students have gone home,” says Ellie Campbell Green at New York University.
