Education
Video shows a Jewish student being refused entry to the library.
The school “has been complicit, offering an ‘internet-optional’ university that only those it can’t protect have to use.”
“It is patently false and a blood libel to suggest that ANY Jewish students are ‘pro-genocide,’” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted.
“Hitler, Hitler go back home, Palestine is ours alone,” more than 100 demonstrators chanted at George Washington University on Friday.
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) asked pressing questions of the university’s interim president with a deadline of May 6.
Reps. Mike Lawler and Ritchie Torres intend to introduce the bill responding to antisemitism on campuses, “Jewish Insider” reported.
“Jewish students are being targeted and attacked physically and verbally,” wrote the school’s president.
Jason Holtzman of the local Jewish Community Relations Council told JNS that people should “speak out to show that there is zero tolerance for these behaviors and actions.”
The Columbia University student Khymani James wrote that he wanted “people to have more context for my words, which I regret.”
“If these were just dancing pizza parties, as the ridiculous headline would have us believe, then Columbia wouldn’t have taken the extraordinary steps of calling in the NYPD,” said Jonah Cohen, of CAMERA.
Michael Rosenzweig, a new member of the board of directors at the Democratic Majority for Israel, told JNS about his views on rising antisemitism in academia, particularly at his alma mater.
“It is time for forceful action on all levels,” said Stuart Eizenstat, chair of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
