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It has become a summer ritual to predict that college campuses will erupt in anti-Israel activity, and, after 2014-15’s record number of antisemitic divestment resolutions, the fears were acute. It is too early to predict a trend, but indications are…
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Antisemitic incidents seem to spring up each week on college campuses throughout the United States. According to a study, “The strongest predictor of anti-Jewish hostility on campus” is the presence of a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. The…
read moreAnti-Semitic incidents seem to spring up each week on college campuses throughout the United States. According to a study, “The strongest predictor of anti-Jewish hostility on campus” is the presence of a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.…
read moreA talk by an Israeli diplomat at the University of California, Davis on Monday was disrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters, The Algemeinerhas learned. After unfurling a large banner across the room, the demonstrators chanted “Long live the intifada,” and other slogans, then exited…
read moreUniversity of California regents said Wednesday that anti-Semitism has “no place” on a college campus but declined to endorse a sweeping statement that would have condemned anti-Zionism as a form of discrimination. Instead, the regents unanimously approved a report that decried…
read morePaul Bronfman is a hero to the Jewish people. He gave York University an ultimatum: Take down the anti-semitic mural within 24 hours or else I withdraw all support. As the chairman of Pinewood Toronto Studios, he had been supplying…
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Note: This post originally was to list just a few statements from university Presidents, but as it has expanded it now will be the repository to gather the statements as a source for others. The title — but not the…
read moreExtremist critics of Israel are all too common on today’s college campuses. They trace the world’s ills and troubles to one spot, one country and one people. Their vilification and their rhetoric of boycott, elimination and destruction is echoed and…
read moreWe may never know what motivated Faisal Mohammad’s stabbing spree at UC Merced. We do know that whatever hatred filled his heart found expression in the brutal stabbing of innocent victims. We also know that the freshman’s rampage and the…
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Three years ago when Ori Herschmann first walked the UC Berkeley campus, he was still naive. A freshman from Palo Alto, he wore the Jewish Star of David, unaware it would make him a target. In his freshman year, he…
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