Education
The university attracted the attention of three Jewish nonprofits “because of the egregious nature of the physical assaults on Jewish students.”
Engineering students at Ben-Gurion University are employing Mask Language Modeling to get to the bottom of damaged, centuries-old inscriptions.
“The gravity of this situation and these outcomes weighs heavily” on the school’s leadership, said C. Cybele Raver, Vanderbilt’s provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Six Israelis will describe their ordeals to a total of 1,200 students in 12 cities.
The school’s president, Minouche Shafik, called the unauthorized event “an abhorrent breach of our values.”
“There needs to be international support, and particularly from within the Arab world, to really drive this initiative,” said the U.S. Israel Education Association’s policy director.
Universities look to preserve their tax-exempt status and avoid political embarrassment, as two House committees continue to investigate antisemitism on campuses.
The complaint cites incidents such as a protest where students chanted “intifada” and “brick by brick, wall by wall, apartheid has got to fall.”
“The committee was disappointed in the materials it received and is expecting future productions to be more productive,” a committee spokesman told JNS.
The image depicting Erwin Chemerinsky, the Jewish dean of the law school, holding bloody silverware was soon replaced.
The rise in anti-Jewish and anti-Israel sentiment on campus has grabbed the attention of 93% of poll respondents.
“Our policy of zero tolerance for antisemitism and all acts of intimidation, harassment and hatred remains in place,” said school president John Fry.
