Education
Jon Lindseth cited the “diminished quality” of the academic institution due to “its disastrous involvement with DEI policies that have infiltrated every part of the university.”
Professor Avinoam Patt said this is “a critical moment in history where serious scholarship and education can make a difference.”
The Senate minority leader expressed alarm at the rise in Holocaust denial among the young.
The U.S. Education Department announced five new probes for “discrimination involving shared ancestry.”
Alan Kadish, the president of Touro University, said: “We just want to make sure that students have a place [where] they feel comfortable.”
Former Harvard president Lawrence Summers wrote that he has lost confidence in the determination of Harvard leadership “to maintain Harvard as a place where Jews and Israelis can flourish.”
“I’m dismayed by Rutgers’s decision to lift their suspension,” said Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.).
The Israel-education organization sent a letter to the school’s leadership demanding greater action against campus antisemitism.
At least 30 Jewish families had their transfer requests approved to leave the Oakland Unified School District, per media reports.
The U.S. Education Department probes relate to “discrimination involving shared ancestry.”
“Instead of taking prompt and effective steps to rectify this hostile environment as the law requires it to do, AU has ignored the discrimination and harassment,” per the complaint.
They are under investigation for “discrimination involving shared ancestry.”
