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Does it matter how we define our words? Sometimes it does. The U.S. Department of Education understands this point, as do the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Universities need to learn it, too. Last year, the Education Department…
read moreScholars have struggled to understand the many faces of anti-Semitism, a phenomenon which has existed for almost two millennia, and which the great scholar Robert Wistrich labeled “the longest hatred.” In the Middle Ages when Jews were forced into conversion,…
read moreDear Honorable Members of the University of California Board of Regents, We are 32 organizations representing hundreds of thousands of supporters who are deeply concerned about the safety and well-being of Jewish students at the University of California. In light…
read moreinceton University has long been known as the “conservative Ivy.” It’s a reference that encompasses not just the school’s centrist political image when compared with Ivy League universities like Harvard or Brown, but also its bucolic atmosphere and generally quiescent…
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arlier this month, Brooklyn College (BC) President Karen Gould emailed a statement to the BC community in response to frightening anti-Semitic graffiti that was scrawled on a men’s restroom wall in the Library, and on the third floor of Ingersol…
read moreUniversity of California President Janet Napolitano said on Thursday that she agreed with a UC-wide condemnation of antisemitism according to the State Department definition of Jew hatred, which includes denying Israel’s right to exist. When asked by Boston public radio’s…
read moreIntroduction As the academic semester nears the end BDS resolutions were debated at a number of campuses, with mixed results. Supporters used new tactics, including tying BDS to fossil fuel divestment, in an atmosphere of increasing antisemitic harassment. In the…
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Leading up to the 67th birthday of the State of Israel, more commonly referred as Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel Independence Day), it may be difficult to stay upbeat given the rising anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism around the world. On American college campuses,…
read moreDear Colleagues, SPME together with StandWithUS just completed a campus tour on several California campuses including, UC Davis, Pepperdine, UCLA, Claremont, and UC Santa Barbara. Our tour coincided, with several campuses that were marking Israel Apartheid Week (IAW). It is…
read moreUC President Janet Napolitano and UC Board of Regents Chairman Bruce D. Varner made the following statement today (March 11): Recent instances of anti-Semitism at University of California campuses compel us to speak out against bigotry and hate, wherever it…
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