Antisemitism
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“The perpetrators of antisemitism on Columbia’s campus have not been disciplined,” two business professors at the university told JNS.
“We told the world that Israel and the Jewish people are not alone,” the House Speaker said.
The U.S. education secretary wrote that he is “deeply concerned” about “repeated reports of antisemitic and anti-Israeli, anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, and anti-Palestinian harassment on our campuses and in our communities.”
“President Biden is taking additional strong, decisive action today to fight the rise of antisemitism in America and protect Jewish students,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Pasadena, Calif., is hearing oral arguments in “Loffman v. California Department of Education.”
“For the future of higher education, the American university system needs to meet the challenges of this moment,” YU’s president said.
“Swastikas, death threats and Hitler glorification are all a result of a failure to properly educate our youth, and we must assign consequences to bad actors,” says a city council member.
Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) says more resources would “greatly boost our efforts to combat this evil whenever and wherever it rears its ugly head.”
“We owe it to every future generation of Jews to take these threats and chants that we hear today on our campuses, on our streets and through the media seriously,” a Columbia University student said.
The anti-Israel wave across the U.S. has made life unbearable for Jewish students. “We will not allow our haters to do as they please,” Liat, a doctoral student, tells Israel Hayom.
“There might already be a decision to target certain Israeli leaders and senior IDF officers,” the president of the Shurat Hadin-Israel Law Center told JNS.
“Can we now simply continue with Israel as a trading partner? I do not think so,” said Alexander De Croo.
