Education
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.
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.
