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“By refusing to define and denounce antisemitism, Northwestern is tacitly endorsing the climate of fear and intimidation for Jews on campus,” said Avi Gordon, of Alums for Campus Fairness.
In December alone, 21 schools joined the list of institutions facing scrutiny for claims of discrimination.
“The impact of this war, this battlefront reaches all the way down to your campuses,” the Israeli president told a visiting delegation.
Universities have long been “a powder keg on the issue of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,” David Bernstein told Breitbart.
In a media interview, Josh Shapiro said he raised three suggestions with leaders at the Ivy League university.
The U.S. Education Department is investigating University of Illinois, Drexel, Springfield Public Schools, Chandler Unified District, UC Davis and MIT.
Some 65% of respondents said funding should be cut from universities that fail to tackle Jew-hatred.
Len Blavatnik, who is Jewish, has reportedly donated more than $270 million to date to the school.
“The idea that antisemitism is not treated with the same rigor as other forms of hate needs to be addressed,” Anthony Housefather told JNS.
The university must reject antisemitism, protect Jewish students and include the Jewish narrative, per a letter sent to university leaders.
The former longtime ADL head, and David Harris, who led the American Jewish Committee, believe that DEI should be scrapped, rather than reformed, in higher education.
One week after a meeting, the board has yet to condemn “vile antisemitism which we all witnessed,” said the Bergen County Jewish Action Committee.
