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It should be easy to call out “demonization, delegitimization, exclusion and ultimately the denial of a person or group’s very existence,” said Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.).
“It is difficult to trust the department to investigate violations of Title VI when your own public statements suggest that you have already come to your own conclusions,” the Republicans wrote.
The Harvard Divinity School visiting scholar stepped down from the university’s Antisemitism Advisory Group.
In a letter leading to the cancellation of a presentation by Dan Kalb, a class accuses Israel of “ethnic cleansing” and “war crimes.”
Edelson PC will not participate in upcoming events in 2024.
Researchers at Brandeis polled 2,000 Jewish undergraduates at 51 schools.
Interest in the Ivy League school is at a four-year low as it is “embroiled in a national row over how U.S. colleges are handling incidents of antisemitism,” Bloomberg reported.
Every Republican but one voted for the resolution, which passed 303-126, effectively splitting the Democratic caucus.
The university’s board has chosen to back Claudine Gay.
It represents a student who experienced antisemitism and whose pleas to administrators failed to achieve a resolution.
“We will address conduct complaints against Columbia students at this event under Columbia’s policies,” a university spokeswoman said, of the Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace protest.
“Authenticity of the food and naming of the recipes have been a concern brought to us by students in the past,” a university spokesman said.
