Education
“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.
“It is abundantly clear that President Shafik would rather cede control to Hamas supporters than restore order,” said Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.
Police reportedly refused to remove trespassing demonstrators.
“Campus cops were just looking at us getting assaulted and didn’t want to intervene,” the man recounts.
The school has not officially commented on the video of the incident, although it is unclear if this was on campus.
Of the 282 individuals arrested, 134 had no affiliation with either Columbia or City College of New York.
Shiraz University invites students involved in antisemitic attacks on campus to pursue their studies in Iran.
