Campus News & Climate

‘Israel Apartheid Week’ under fire

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1206632388469 During Israel Apartheid Week, which took place on the University of Toronto campus in February, the student body was presented with a flurry of information by anti-Israel activists, linking Israel’s policies toward Palestinians with South Africa’s former policy of…

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Anti-Semitic Pamphlets, Graffiti Being Investigated

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Anti-Semitic+pamphlets%2C+graffiti+being+investigated&articleId=de47f8f8-dac1-4c76-a5bc-c23ce7b8acff RINDGE – Police and Franklin Pierce University officials are investigating a number of anti-Semitic pamphlets in residents’ mailboxes along with separate reports of graffiti swastikas in student dorms and a classroom on campus. Police are unsure if an organized…

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Debating How to Respond on Campus

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20080318HillelZOA.html A Hillel invitation to the chancellor of the University of California, Irvine — a bastion of anti-Israel activity — has crystallized a deep disagreement within the pro-Israel community over how best to respond to anti-Israel sentiment on campuses. NEW…

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Class Cancellations Called Discriminatory

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107809.html York University’s practice of canceling classes on Jewish holidays is discriminatory, a panel found. An Ontario Human Rights Commission investigation has found that the practice violates the provincial Human Rights Code’s protection against discrimination based on a person’s “creed.”…

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Großbritannien: Akademischer Boykott stößt auf Widerstand

http://www.israelnetz.com/themen/nachrichten/artikel-nachrichten/artikel/grossbritannien-akademischer-boykott-stoesst-auf-widerstand/?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=10&cHash=e62620343a LONDON (inn) – Die Leitung der größten akademischen Gewerkschaft Großbritanniens hat für einen neuen Antrag auf Boykott israelischer Institutionen gestimmt. Doch bereits im vorigen Jahr hatten eigene Anwälte einen solchen Boykott für “gesetzeswidrig und nicht durchsetzbar” erklärt. Im Mai…

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‘UK is European Center of Anti-Semitism’

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1206632378756&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Britain has become the epicenter for anti-Semitic trends in Europe as traditional, age-old anti-Semitism in a country whose literature and cultural tradition were “drenched” in anti-Semitism has developed into a contemporary mix of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, an Israeli historian…

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Financial Woes Silence Anti-Boycott Body

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1206632378765&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull As the spring conference season for British trade unions draws near, and with it the calls to boycott Israeli academia, funds for a non-government body that fights those calls have dried up. The International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom,…

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RACHEL’s LAW Unanimously Passed by NY Legislators

Assemblyman Rory I.Lancman Sen. Dean G. Skelos New York State Assembly, 25TH District New York State Senate,9 District Assemblyman Rory I.Lancman Sen. Dean G. Skelos Legislature Passes Libel Terrorism Protection Act To Protect American Journalists and Authors FromOverseas Defamation Lawsuits…

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