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In September, the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights reached a settlement with New York University for the school’s apparent discrimination against its Jewish students, based on a student’s complaint that “the university discriminated against students of Jewish descent,…
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Swastikas spray-painted on a bench on the Walnut Street Bridge, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Photo: Twitter. Hate crimes committed in the US rose to their highest level in more than a decade in 2019, a new report from the FBI disclosed…
read moreIt must be a story from the Onion, the satirical newspaper, people thought as they reacted to news that a new panel on “dismantling antisemitism” would include leading anti-Israel commentators, some of whom had been slammed in the past for…
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Last year, at a national conference in Manhattan, New York University student Adela Cojab described a pattern of harassment that she and other Jewish students were facing on her campus. After hearing her speak, as was my job, I informed…
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The Jerusalem Post can report the first US government criticism of three German MPs who are involved in Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions activities targeting Israel, and are on the advisory board of a group urging the destruction of Israel. David Peyman, the…
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Scattered across the city, country and world, community members read University President Morton Schapiro’s Monday email condemning recent student protests. Minutes later, messages of shock, support and confusion flooded Facebook feeds, Twitter timelines and Reddit pages alike. Beyond the absolute…
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Arizona State University. Credit: Flickr. Arizona State University’s student government has adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism. The resolution to adopt the widely accepted definition of anti-Semitism passed on Tuesday in a 15-1-3 vote. In a statement…
read moreThis interactive map is based on our research into antisemitism at UK Universities, we include a variety of issues we believe are of concern, from academics dismissing Jewish concerns of antisemitism to IHRA definition breaches, events with antisemitic speakers, University…
read moreA Berlin court convicted on Monday a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions activist for assaulting people during a presentation by an Israeli survivor of the Holocaust at Humboldt University in the capital. In a dramatic setback to the claim of the BDS campaign…
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Binghamton University in upstate New York is known as one of the top colleges for Jewish life in the United States. A quarter of the student population identifies as Jewish. Kosher food is on the meal plan. There are five historically-Jewish Greek…
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