Antisemitism
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Myles Utz pleaded guilty to the hate crime for the antisemitic attack in 2024.
“One of the main perpetrators is in control of the Iranian regime’s terror arm,” the American Jewish Committee said of Ahmad Vahidi, who has long been linked to the Jewish community center terrorist attack.
Sadat Mousa faces multiple charges, including felony vandalism with a hate-crime enhancement, following the Feb. 28 incident.
Threatening messages praising Nazis and white nationalist ideology were transmitted over a secure county radio channel between March 2 and 4.
“Antisemitism is a national crisis and requires the same attention given to past crises and a whole-of-government response to confront it,” Paola Samuel, of B’nai Brith Canada, told JNS.
The settlement helps “to ensure that Jewish and Israeli students and faculty are treated as equal and valuable members of the campus community,” Oleg Ivanov, of the StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice, told JNS.
Many students at elite schools think “if you are smart enough to be here, you should have moved past religion,” the lead author of a new study told JNS.
Michael Moritz said Britain has become “uncomfortable” for Jews but the Federal Republic is safer due to education about the Holocaust.
“Here were Simon and Kirby, sending their star-spangled avatar to deck Hitler right on the cover,” pop-culture historian Roy Schwartz told JNS.
“If every campus suddenly had professors willing to do this, we wouldn’t need Qatar-level money,” Mark Goldfeder, of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, told JNS.
“Establish the task force your commission recommended,” said Rabbi Amanda Greene, of Chicago Sinai Congregation. “Make progress public.”
“It’s hard for me to believe that someone would spend $70,000 to $80,000 to go to a school where people hate you because of your beliefs,” David Rancourt, vice provost of New College, told JNS. “I assure you that does not happen here.”
