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We are amidst a global awakening of reevaluating systemic racism and the ways in which minorities are persecuted and mistreated. During this wave of change, a group of Jewish college students from across the country at universities including Columbia, Cornell, Stanford, Yale,…
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A Students for Justice in Palestine march in New York Credit: JCPA. A report published on Tuesday by the nonprofit watchdog AMCHA Initiative documented a more than 300 percent increase in campus activity in 2019 intended to undermine and discredit…
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Members of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at UC Berkeley. Photo: Ariel Hayat. A new group of radical activists has emerged in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. They are called Within Our Lifetime, and they are unapologetically anti-Zionist, anti-American, pro-violence, and anti-peace.…
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University of York The University of York has reportedly adopted the International Definition of Antisemitism. Campaign Against Antisemitism has long urged widespread adoption of the Definition. The UK was the first country in the world to adopt the International Definition, something for which Campaign Against…
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The Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut. Credit: Pradipta Mitra via Wikimedia Commons. Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-Tenn.) has become the fifth member of the U.S. Congress to call for an examination of a Title VI-funded Middle East Studies center…
read moreAs campuses across the country are roiled in paroxysms of self-righteous indignation over race, some Black students, enraged and emboldened by the murder of George Floyd under the knee of an abusive white police officer, have formed coalitions and presented…
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Anti-Israel demonstrators an event at UCLA, May 17, 2018. Photo: YouTube screenshot. A former president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has criticized the organization for recently giving an award to a San Francisco State University professor who engaged in…
read moreSeeming to give credence to what wry Professor Edward Alexander referred to as the “explosive power of boredom” among some members of the professoriate, some 400 “professors of Jewish Studies in North and South America, Europe, and Israel” recently published and signed…
read moreIlana Feldman, a professor of anthropology at George Washington University (GWU), recently was appointed Interim Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs at GWU. There was an immediate firestorm of controversy, since Feldman is a supporter of and longtime activist leader…
read moreLast year, I wrote about a settlement in the case of Volk v. Board of Trustees. At the center of that case was one incident, in which the Jewish campus organization, Hillel, was intentionally excluded from the “Know Your Rights” fair at…
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