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This coming Sunday, April 5, the undergraduate student council at Columbia University in New York will vote on when to schedule an online referendum that has nothing to do with the academic upheaval caused by the coronavirus. Instead, students at…
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A BDS demonstration outside the School of Oriental and African Studies in London in 2017. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. In the same city where the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue was met with an outpouring of support for…
read moreThe Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) is rejecting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, which guides politicians and leaders around the globe on how to identify and combat anti-Jewish hatred. On Wednesday, the CFS issued a press…
read moreRafaella Gunz, a former CUNY law student who was forced out by antisemitic harassment. Photo: Kristen Blush. A Jewish former law student at City University of New York told The Algemeiner this week about what she described as antisemitic and anti-Zionist harassment…
read moreThe President of New York City’s Columbia University Lee Bollinger has spoken out against “rising anti-Semitism on campus,” stating that over the past year he had become “increasingly concerned” about the issue. In his speech, Bollinger referred to an upcoming…
read moreI want to speak about a difficult matter—about a concern I have regarding the risk of a rising anti-Semitism on our campus. Any bigotry and prejudice toward groups is intolerable, especially (for all the obvious reasons) within a university, and we…
read moreI’ve written about Rutgers University Professor Jasbir Puar before, so let me limit myself to a few observations. Puar, a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, has a problem: BDS wishes to accuse Israel of genocide, but Israel isn’t…
read moreScripps College, a private woman’s liberal-arts institution and part of The Claremont Colleges in Southern California, is scheduled to host a keynote this month by Rutgers University professor Jasbir Puar, who wrote a book accusing Israel of maiming Palestinians to…
read moreStudent athletes at Brooklyn College are facing criticism after kneeling during the singing of Hatikvah, Israel’s national anthem, before a volleyball match against Jewish students of Yeshiva University. At a men’s volleyball competition that took place during the weekend, two players…
read morePerkins Library at Duke University in Durham, NC. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Duke University Press has a long history of promoting antisemitic views masquerading as academic scholarship. Their authors have compared Israelis to Nazis, and have updated antisemitic blood libels by alleging that Israel specifically targets Palestinian…
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